Article in 2011 CWIM
Have you grabbed your copy yet? The Children’s Writer’s and Illustrator’s Market is what I always recommend to authors seeking agents and publishers. It’s a fabulous and exhaustive resource (you’ll find Scott Treimel NY on page 300).
This year, my article, “An Agent / Author’s Crash Course in Getting Published,” is among the pieces from agents, editors and major authors. It features such salient tips as:
1. Surviving awkward phone calls with potential publishers.
2. Taming your writing as you tame a 100-pound American Bulldog.
3. Getting past “No,” and the far more injurious, “Hmm…“
4. Coffee: infusing inspiration; removing stains.
A sample…
My career began with an American Bulldog. I’d climbed five flights to interview at S©ott Treimel NY, a boutique juvenile literary agency in the LaGrange Terrace penthouse at Astor Place. Five months previous I’d graduated college, set to dazzle the world with the profundity of metaphor in Russian literature. I wanted to be a novelist, and was also interested in the book business. Now, twenty interviews later, beat and red-eyed, I clasped my double-espresso like a scabbard and faced one hundred pounds of slobbering Cerberus. Its nametag read “Petey.”
My piece aside, this really is the guide. I always had one on my college book shelf. Go buy one!
