2004 Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market (Children's Writer's and Illustrator's Market)

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Editorial Review:

This comprehensive guide is the key to getting you work published. It gives you more useful market information than any other reference, whether you want to write young adult novels or illustrate picture books.

You'll find informmation on hundreds of book publishers, magazines, and play publishers, plus other exciting opportunities, including markets for young writers. Each entry includes up-to-date contact names submission guidelines, pay rates, Websites, email addresses, phone numbers and more.

You'll also find articles and interviews featuring a who's who of children's writers and illustrators. Plus, you get invaluable information on organizations, workshops, clubs, conferences and contests that can boost your creative ablilities as well as your career.

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

Great Resource:

This book is a great all around resource for anyone who wants to learn more about writing and illustrating children's books. The answers to your questions are here.

Accurate, Complete and Up-To-Date Info:

The ultimate guide to getting your manuscripts and illustrations for the children's market published is back with over 1,000 editors, agents and art directors. Contract terms, tips for breaking in, current needs for both fiction and nonfiction and contact info for writers and illustrators give you the edge in actively pursue your career in the industry.

Everyone can benefit from the articles jam-packed into this year's edition. All aspects of the business are covered, with topics such as:

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The best children's publishing market guide, as usual:

I'm a children's book editor, and run a web site called "The Purple Crayon," where I review this book in detail. Here are some excerpts from that review:

Children's Writer's and Illustrator's Market has established itself as an inexpensive "yellow pages" of children's publishing for authors and illustrators in the United States.... This year's edition seems to me to be at least as good as its predecessors.

As usual, the core of CWIM is the Markets section, which includes listings of publishers of... more info

What an amazing resource for children's writers!:

I knew that there was a lot to learn when trying to get my first children's book published and I couldn't have found a more complete source in one book. There are pointers and advice given by many published authors. There is a market section where all the publishing houses are listed along with their contact information, what types of books they publish, web addresses, submission requirements and any other relevant information for each specific company. This is an invaluable book for any aspiring children's... more info