3 Common Mistakes New Children’s Book Authors Make Before Submitting Their Middle Grade or Young Adult Novel for the First Time

by Madeline Smoot

Submitting your manuscript to an agent or editor that first time is a nail-biting experience. Will they like it? Will they even read it? This article is designed to help minimize some of the anxiety around submitting your children's novel to an agent or traditional press by examining the three most common mistakes emerging authors make. Written by children's book publisher Madeline Smoot of CBAY Books, this short read should provide you with some quick areas to examine before submitting your middle grade or young adult manuscript for publication.

11 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 1, 2017

About the author

Madeline Smoot is the publisher of CBAY Books and former Editorial Director of Blooming Tree Press. In other words, Madeline knows a lot about publishing and the process of bringing a book to market. What Madeline has never been before is an author. Missing is her first book for teens.

Madeline lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband, son, two cats, a dog, and more books than should fit in any normal person's house.

For more information about publishing, see Madeline's blog Buried in the Slushpile.
For more information about CBAY Books, visit them here.