Lee and Low Books Specializing in Multi-cultural themes

From the website:  “Our focus is on fiction and nonfiction featuring children/people of color, for readers ages 5 to 12. Of special interest are realistic fiction, historical fiction, and nonfiction with a distinct voice or unique approach. We do not publish folklore and animal stories.”

http://www.leeandlow.com/p/wguide.mhtml

Education Markets

Evelyn Christensen has just updated her free market blog. This is one of the best places for children’s authors and Evelyn does all this for free.

http://evelynchristensen.com/markets.html

Infobase Learning

This group includes Facts on File. There’s a lot to read here but looks like good information.

http://www.infobasepublishing.com/ContactUS.aspx?Page=AuthorSubmission

My nephew, Jack, not only loves MX, he’s a winning speller and student. Combining outdoor activities with school studies is a winning combination for young children.

Capstone Press

Another publisher open to submission, Capstone Press publishes non-fiction books, and a few of my writer friends write for this publisher. Here are the guidelines:

http://www.capstonepub.com/content/CONTACTUS_SUBMISSIONS

My articles and poems are in these magazines.

 

Ideals Books is open to submissions

I do not know this publisher but found it on the web and it looks very interesting. I’m going to check this one out more. If you write for children up to the age of 8, you might consider this one.

http://www.idealsbooks.com/info/author_guidelines

I have just finished two manuscripts that were requested for the Bluffton Group magazines. It’s always a good feeling to send a manuscript on its way, after all the work and the many edits.

 

Charlesbridge Publishing

Here is the submission website for Charlesbridge. They publish wonderful children’s books.

http://www.charlesbridge.com/client/client_pages/submissions.cfm

My best advice, that I also need to take, is to read, read, read children’s books. We learn from all of them.

I have had many non-fiction articles, with my photographs, published in children’s magazines and a few books. I love non-fiction writing, but poetry and fiction are important to me too. What do you like best? Read and study and read more, the magazines and books you’d like to be published in.

Super Good website for children’s writers

I just found this site myself. Looks good, with all kinds of information including children’s publishers’ links.

http://signaleader.com/

Finding a Critique Group

Here is an excellent article on finding the right critique group:

http://www.underdown.org/mf-critique-groups.htm

A great blog for writing for the educational market:

http://www.evelynchristensen.com/markets.html

As I come back to writing and hopefully to stay forever, I know it will be hard to reconnect with former editors. It is important to keep in contact with them, or they will move on to other writers. Circumstances beyond my control occurred and I needed to care for someone, but it’s also important to follow your own dreams and passions. If you love writing for children, keep doing it; for the children and for you.

 

One Publisher still open to unsolicited submissions

Book publishers that are open for submissions without an agent can be hard to find and there are more of these every day. Charlesbridge is one of the very few.

Here’s the link for submissions:    http://www.charlesbridge.com/client/client_pages/submissions.cfm

 

Submissions to Albert Whitman

I have been gone since last year, but will now be posting almost daily. I am working on assignments for publishers, but will be more active on this blog, and eventually a new website.

Here is the website for Albert Whitman submissions:  http://www.albertwhitman.com/content.cfm/editorial-guidelines-for-writers

Checking the SCBWI guide, I see the requirements have totally changed. It always pays to visit the website, because now Whitman wants only email submissions. However, while the site states that there will be a link on January 1, 2014, I am unable to find it. This is not unusual for publishers as their websites fall behind. If I learn more information I will post here ASAP.

Please visit my blog often. You’ll find useful information here for authors, published or unpublished, and in all areas of writing for children.

I often write for the Bluffton group, three excellent magazines with no advertisements.