http://www.piccadillypress.co.uk/pages/submissions-guidelines.html Our picture books are very strongly character-led, and are for you... More

http://www.piccadillypress.co.uk/pages/submissions-guidelines.html Our picture books are very strongly character-led, and are for young children (2 to 5 years old). They are 32-page picture flats (we do not publish novelty books) with simple stories. Texts should be 500 to 1,000 words long. Our teenage fiction is contemporary, humorous and deals with the issues and problems which teenagers face in their own everyday lives: most obviously with the opposite sex, embarrassing parents, school, changing friendships, and also a wide range of scenarios that each author individually recognises and explores. Books are aimed at 10 to 15-year-olds and they are usually between 25,000 and 35,000 words in length. Our teenage non-fiction is mostly humorous and light-hearted in approach, and is essentially a practical and sympathetic engagement with the issues teenagers face.