KIDLIT411 BIRTHDAY BASH 2016 Day 4: ALL ABOUT SUBMISSIONS

Jan 14, 2016 Welcome to Day 4 of the Kidlit411 Birthday Bash Giveaway! 

Today, ALL ABOUT SUBMISSIONS, is the day you've been waiting for - GOLDEN TICKETS: Get to the head of the line with these fabulous agents, most of whom we featured at Kidlit411 last year.  

Be sure to enter our previous giveaways this week:

• Jan. 11, All About Books  (win the Caldecott & Newbery books, a year's worth of picture books, and more)

•  Jan. 12, All About Craft  (writing & illustration courses)

• Jan. 13 All About Critiques (professional critiques)

You may enter into any or all of the giveaways. All giveaways end at noon, EST, Jan. 21, 2016.

Taking one action (such as commenting on this post) qualifies you for that entry (commenting) for all of the giveaways for the day. If you already follow us on Twitter, in our FB group, or subscribe to our emails, you can take those entries in every giveaway.

A GOLDEN TICKET gets you ahead of the line and guarantees that you will get a response from the agent!

As with any agent submissions, if you win these prizes, please do your homework and research what the agents want. 

TODAY'S GIVEAWAYS: ALL ABOUT SUBMISSIONS

Before we get to the agents, a prize to get you ready for submission. . . 

Prize 1: THE COMPLETE PICTURE BOOK SUBMISSION SYSTEM by Emma Walton Hamilton and Julie Hedlund

Emma Walton Hamilton is a best-selling children’s book author, editor and arts educator. With her mother, actress/author Julie Andrews, Emma has co-authored over 30 children’s books, including 7 New York Times bestsellers. Emma is a faculty member of Stony Brook Southampton’s MFA in Creative Writing and Literature, a freelance children’s book editor, and hosts the Just Write Children’s Books home-study courses in picture book, middle grade, and young adult writing.

Julie Hedlund is an award-winning children’s book author, founder of the 12 x 12 Picture Book Writing Challenge, blogger, and a regular speaker at SCBWI and other industry events. She has published two picture books, A TROOP IS A GROUP OF MONKEYS (Little Bahalia Publishing, 2013) and MY LOVE FOR YOU IS THE SUN (Little Bahalia Publishing 2014) and two storybook apps (A SHIVER OF SHARKS and A TROOP).

Together, Emma and Julie are offering their course, The Complete Submission System: EVERYTHING you need, soup to nuts, to catapult your submission out of the slush pile. From how to research editors and agents, write queries and hook sentences, formatting your submissions, following up, and evaluating offers, this will help you prepare professional picture book submissions.

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Now, on to the AGENT PRIZES. . . 

Prize 2: GOLDEN TICKET for Linda Epstein of the Jennifer DeChiara Literary Agency

Don't miss the KidLit411 interview with Linda Epstein here!

Linda Epstein joined the Jennifer DeChiara Literary Agency as an Associate Agent in 2011. Before that she read manuscripts, book proposals, and queries at Folio Literary Management; was Submissions Manager at The McVeigh Agency; did a short stint at the Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency and a longer stint at Meryl Zegarek Public Relations. Prior to that she was Community Relations Manager at Barnes and Noble, where she set up author readings and signings and organized book groups and book fairs.

Linda represents picture books, middle grade, young adult fiction and non-fiction, as well as author-illustrators. Check out her 2016 wish list.

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Prize 3: GOLDEN TICKET for Susan Hawk of the The Bent Agency

Don't miss the KidLit411 interview with Susan Hawk here!

Susan Hawk came to agenting from Children's Book Marketing, where she worked for over 15 years, most recently as the Marketing Director at Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, and previous to that as the Library Marketing Director at Penguin Young Readers Group. She was involved in the launch of many different books during that time ranging from Eric Carle's BABY BEAR, BABY BEAR to Betsy Partridge's THIS LAND WAS MADE FOR YOU AND ME, to Nancy Werlin's BLACK MIRROR, as well as the work of Mary E Pearson, Richard Peck and Joan Bauer.

While at Penguin, she also worked for a time in Dutton Editorial, acquiring projects for that list. Her favorite part of that time was reading new submissions -- finding something wonderful and imagining where it could go.

Susan handles books for children exclusively: picture books, chapter books, middle grade and YA, fiction and non-fiction. Check out her wish list here.

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Prize 4: GOLDEN TICKET for Lori Kilkelly of Rodeen Literary Management

Don't miss the KidLit411 interview with Lori Kilkelly here!

Lori Kilkelly joined Rodeen Literary Management in 2010, a year after president and founder Paul Rodeen (formerly with Sterling Lord Literistic) opened the agency in his hometown of Chicago. She began representing her own clients two and a half years ago and this year will see published 14 manuscripts she sold during that time, to a diverse group of major publishers. She represents children’s literature from picture books to young adult novels, prefers fiction and likes humor as well as heartwarming. Lori works with career authors - writers who value craft and consider writing their life’s work.

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Prize 5: 20 MINUTE CONSULTATION WITH ANDREA BROWN OF THE ANDREA BROWN AGENCY AT BIG SUR IN CAPE COD or A WRITTEN CRITIQUE!

Enter to win a personal critique from Andrea Brown, either in person at Big Sur on Cape Cod (May 2016), or by email!

Andrea Brown is the President of the Andrea Brown Literary Agency, Inc. Founded in New York City in 1981, it was the first literary agency to represent both children's book authors and illustrators. Prior to opening her own firm, Andrea was an editor at Alfred A. Knopf, and worked in the editorial departments of Random House and Dell. In 1990, she moved her literary agency to Northern California. Andrea has published articles and published a chapter about the children's book field in THE PORTABLE WRITER'S CONFERENCE, published by Quill Driver Books. She has been quoted in the NEW YORK POST, CNN.com, Yahoo News, FORBES, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING and REUTERS NEWS SERVICE. 

Some of Andrea's sales include bestselling titles such as MAMA DO YOU LOVE ME (Chronicle), THE BEANIE BABY HANDBOOK and TEACHER FROM THE BLACK LAGOON series (both with Scholastic), the BEVERLY HILLS 90210 series (HarperCollins), the SUNSET ISLAND series (Berkley), Olympic Silver medalist, Sasha Cohen's autobiography, FIRE ON ICE (HarperCollins), Neal Shusterman's DARK FUSION series (Dutton/Penguin), EVERLOST and UNWIND (Simon & Schuster), BRUISER (HarperCollins), and a forthcoming middle grade series with Disney-Hyperion. 

Big Sur on Cape Cod

Andrea is the Executive Director of the Big Sur Writing Workshops for children's books, held in March and December in Big Sur, California. This year, Big Sur is coming to the East Coast: Big Sur on Cape Cod. Spend a weekend with stellar agents, authors, and editors, as they work with you on your manuscript in a small group setting. 

The workshop will take place May 13-15, 2016 and the faculty line up is top notch:

Agents (all from the Andrea Brown Literary Agency)

• Andrea Brown

• Jennifer Laughran

• Caryn Wiseman

• Kelly Sonnack


Authors

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AnneSibley O'Brien (illustrator of 32 picture books, author of 14 of them
• Sarah Littman

 (award-winning MG and YA novelist)

Editors

• Nicole Raymond of Candlewick Press

• Christine Krones of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• 
Yolanda Scott of Charlesbridge Publishing

If you win this prize, you may submit your first ten-pages of your manuscript, and further details will be provided to you. 

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Thank you all for joining our 2nd birthday celebration! Tomorrow (Friday, Jan. 12), we will pick a few of the winners from Day 2 (writing courses that began this week), and all the rest of the giveaway prizes will be announced on Thursday, Jan. 21.

Please continue to visit our site - where we post kid lit links every week and interview authors and illustrators.