Child Book Publisher The agent and publisher route almost made me quit writing.
This child book publisher page, is part of: ‘Self Publish’ There are basically three methods of producing your writing: 1. Mainstream publishing via an agent, publisher or child book publisher. 2. Self-publishing via a self-publishing house and marketing your own work. 3. Via an Internet based business either in hard copy or e-book format. See - 'A Winning Formula' After years of getting the runaround, and to many disappointments to mention, I finally came to the conclusion that route three of the above, was definitely the way to go, and set out to create my own children’s book and children’s club website. In this section however, I’d like to cover the pro’s, and con’s of agents and publishers Getting published today as an unknown writer is a formidable task by anyone’s standards, and you almost certainly have to conform to specific criteria accommodating any given current market trend. If your work doesn’t fit into whatever agenda a specific agent or publisher could be currently looking for, you’re doomed! Of course there are exceptions, but they’re very few and very far between, you only have to monitor the many available writers’ forums out there to recognize this. I spent many years submitting manuscripts to agents and publishers, and this is what I have found to be the reality. Agents. There are basically three kinds of agents, the good, the bad, and newsagents. Sorry, just my little joke! Having said that, I might as well have submitted my work to newsagents for all the good it did. I’m not a total cynic, of course there are good agents, but you’ll find, as I did, that they’re already very well established, have a full client list, and that their books are closed to new writers. You can find out which agents are accepting new writers in the current, ‘Writers and Artists year book’, an excellent resource for new writers. Then there are agents who will accept anyone, but again, you’ll find that they’re accepting anything and everything in the hope of finding the next J.K. Rowling and do not have either the time or the resources to give your work the attention it deserves. Then you’ve got the fee charging variety, take my advice here; avoid them like the plague. They suck you in with a relatively small initial fee, then another fee for this and another one for that, until you’re so far committed that you really can’t afford to back out. They’re not motivated in the slightest towards getting you a publishing deal; they make their money purely through fees. Think of it this way, if they truly believed they could sell your work, why charge fees? While deciding upon which agents you’re going to apply to, if that’s the route you decide to take, there are several very important factors to consider. A. Does this agent accept new writers? B. Does this agent accept my genre? C. Does this agent charge fees? D. How many agents to apply to at one time? E. How to prepare your work for final submission?
All these questions and more, are answered in my: ‘Manuscript Submission - Child Book Publisher’ guide.
Genres accepted are also contained within the list. Publishers To apply directly to a publishing house or a child book publisher requires considerable research, as a publisher or child book publisher will not entertain unsolicited manuscripts, or manuscripts not submitted by an agent. Publishers that do accept new writers, require either, an introductory letter and synopsis of your work or a sample chapter or two. The process of applying to a publishing house, is again, discussed in the, ‘Manuscript Submission’, section. I have done this to avoid duplication.  Here's a little 'child book publisher' Fairy Dust to help you along!
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