Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market 33rd Edition: The Most Trusted Guide to Getting Published

by Amy Jones (Editor)

The Most Trusted Guide to the World of Children's Publishing, fully revised and updated

The 33rd edition of Children's Writer's and Illustrator's Market is the definitive and trusted guide for anyone who seeks to write or illustrate for kids and young adults. If you're a writer or an illustrator for young readers and your goal is to get published, CWIM is the resource you need.

In this book, you'll find more than 500 listings for children's book markets, including publishers, literary agents, magazines, contests, and more. These listings include a point of contact, how to properly submit your work, and what categories each market accepts.

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Genres: Writing, Nonfiction

416 pages, Paperback

Published January 11, 2022

About the author

AMY JONES won the 2006 CBC Literary Prize for Short Fiction and was a finalist for the 2005 Bronwen Wallace Award. She is a graduate of the Optional Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at UBC, and her fiction has appeared in Best Canadian Stories and The Journey Prize Stories. Her debut collection of stories, What Boys Like, was the winner of the 2008 Metcalf-Rooke Award and a finalist for the 2010 ReLit Award. Originally from Halifax, she now lives in Thunder Bay, where she is associate editor of The Walleye. The author lives in Thunder Bay, ON.

Reviews

[Abby · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book isn't perfect, but it does have a little bit of everything, including interviews with successful authors; articles about topics like racial representation, formatting a picture book, or crowdfunding; and lists of conferences, contests, and publishers (disappointingly, some of the publishers say specifically that they don't publish children's books, so the list isn't curated for children's writers, but it's still useful).

Here are some of the sections I found helpful or interesting:
"The Curiously Effective Way To Beat Procrastination" by Michael La Ronn
"Blogging Basics" by Robert Lee Brewer
"The Agent Query Tracker" by Tyler Moss
"Getting an Agent 101" by Jennifer D. Foster
"30-Day Platform Challenge" by Robert Lee Brewer

I have a novel that's almost ready for querying, so this book had a lot to offer me. It gave me ideas for staying organized during querying, some basics about the querying process, the names of agents and/or publishers to contact, and a lot of ideas for spiffing up my online/social media presence (I'm back on Twitter now lol). Anyway, I read every article in this book and while not every one was helpful to me, the ones that were helpful were helpful enough to make it worth my while.

[K · Rating 5 out of 5]

It’s exactly what the title says it is. It’s a very large book, 400 pages of insight from authors, helpful notes, an index of publishing houses, countless notes on how to improve yourself, notes on how to improve your story, how to find artists, you name it this book has it.

It has a section on how to add you with agents and art representatives, magazines, Canadian and international houses, conferences and workshops, contests, awards, and grants.

I really enjoyed this book’s approach to helping the author, there’s a chapter on how to beat procrastination, how to help yourself to help others, and a great insight on how diversity matters within the publishing world because if you write whatever one else is writing it’s going to be stale.