by Tracy | Apr 23, 2020 | For Writers & Illustrators
It’s publication week for Tara Luebbe and Becky Cattie’s Ronan the Librarian, and I’m excited to share the pitch I used to submit the manuscript to editors in the hopes that it’ll help you with your own querying. (For other pitches that...
by Tracy | Feb 17, 2020 | For Writers & Illustrators
I tweeted some science-related #mswls earlier this summer, but I thought it’d be helpful to collate them here and share! Here goes: I would love to see a trade NF book exploring antarctica and climate change. (This idea is not fully formed, so bear with...
by Tracy | Feb 10, 2020 | For Writers & Illustrators, More Personally
I hate driving behind those trailers that carry ten or so cars on them, and it’s because I can’t not think about the story I was told about my great-uncle, who died when one of the chains snapped. But it turns out – that’s not actually what...
by Tracy | Dec 9, 2019 | For Writers & Illustrators
The short answer, is that agents close to queries when they’re not actively looking for more clients to add to their list… but I’m sure you were hoping for a little more information than that! The long answer is, agents close when they feel like they don’t have the...
by Tracy | Nov 12, 2019 | For Writers & Illustrators
This past spring, Fox and the Box by Yvonne Ivinson was published, and I could not be any more thrilled by what Yvonne and Greenwillow did with this book! It’s stunning, and I used it at conference critiques earlier this month to show just how much narrative you...
by Tracy | Oct 21, 2019 | For Writers & Illustrators
Agents will usually tell their clients not to spend time writing a sequel while the first book is on submission to publishers, because even selling a first book doesn’t mean that a publisher will want to pick up a sequel or subsequent books. Most of the time, if...
