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By: Kathy Temean,
on 10/3/2013
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CALL FOR ILLUSTRATIONS: Please remember to send in your illustrations for October. It is a great way to get seen and keep your name out there to get noticed. Send them to Kathy(dot)temean(at)gmail.com with October Illustrations in the subject area. Please submit .jpgs at least 500 pixels wide.
Emily Seife associate editor at Scholastic Press, has agreed to be our Guest Critiquer for October’s First Page winners. She works with award-winning authors such as Cynthia Lord, Philip Reeve, Daphne Benedis-Grab, James Proimos, and many others. She is an editor on the Infinity Ring multiplatform series, and is the author of The Hunger Games Tribute Guide. Emily is especially looking for: Young adult and middle grade fiction: stories with a strong voice and emotional core, contemporary humor, magical realism, mystery. She says she is not a good fit for: high fantasy, paranormal.
http://kathytemean.wordpress.com/2013/09/07/illustrator-saturday-kristi-valiant/
http://kathytemean.wordpress.com/2013/09/14/illustrator-saturday-hazel-mitchell-2/
Click this for the original link for Book and Agent John Cusick’s Interview.
If you didn’t win, check back on Sunday for a chance to get your hands on Cherry Money Baby.
Winners please send me your physical address, so your book can be sent to you.
You can still leave a comment for a chance to win the following books:
Click this link for Dianne Ochiltree’s Firefly Night. Winner announced on Sunday.
Click this link for Pink Cupcake Magic written by Katherine Tegan and illustrated and given away by Kristin Varner. Have to Dec. 1st to leave a comment on this link.
For writers who like using a picture prompt, you may use the above illustration by Shawna JC Tenney for inspiration. Shawna was featured on illustrator Saturday April 20th. http://kathytemean.wordpress.com/2013/04/20/illustrator-saturday-shawna-jc-tenney/
WRITERS Sending in a First Page: Please attach your double spaced, 12 point font, 23 line first page to an e-mail and send it to kathy(dot)temean(at)gmail(dot)com. Also cut and paste it into the body of the e-mail. Put “October First Page Critique” or “October First Page Picture Prompt Critique” in the subject line. Make sure you have your name on the submission, a title, and indicate the genre.
DEADLINE: October 24th
RESULTS POSTED: November 1st.
Talk tomorrow,
Kathy
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By: Kathy Temean,
on 6/28/2013
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Can you believe half of 2013 is over? I thought I would go back and choose one illustration from the illustrator featured in the last six months. I challenge you to go back and try to pick one for each week. It is a very tough task. I usually have 4 or 5 favorites, so if I were to do it again, I might choose different pictures, but below are my picks starting with January and ending with last week.
Patrick Girouard - http://kathytemean.wordpress.com/2013/01/05/illustrator-saturday-patrick-girouard/
Marit Menzin – http://kathytemean.wordpress.com/2013/01/12/illustrator-saturday-marit-menzin/
Dow Phumiruk – http://kathytemean.wordpress.com/2013/01/19/illustrator-saturday-dow-phumiruk-md/
Constanze von Kitzing – http://kathytemean.wordpress.com/2013/01/26/illustrator-saturday-constanze-von-kitzing/
Russ Cox - http://kathytemean.wordpress.com/2013/02/02/illustrator-saturday-russ-cox/
Marie Bogard - http://kathytemean.wordpress.com/2013/02/09/illustrator-saturday-maria-bogade/
Jen Betton - http://kathytemean.wordpress.com/2013/02/16/illustrator-saturday-jen-betton/
Kristina Swarner - http://kathytemean.wordpress.com/2013/02/23/illustrator-saturday-kristina-swarner/
April Chu - http://kathytemean.wordpress.com/2013/03/02/illustrator-saturday-april-chu/
Susan Detwiler - http://kathytemean.wordpress.com/2013/03/09/illustrator-saturday-susan-detwiler/
Katie McDee – http://kathytemean.wordpress.com/2013/03/16/illustrator-saturday-katie-mcdee/
Evi Gstottner – http://kathytemean.wordpress.com/2013/03/23/illustrator-saturday-evi-gstottner/
Danielle Arbor – http://kathytemean.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/illustrator-saturday-danielle-arbor/
Sheralyn Barnes – http://kathytemean.wordpress.com/2013/04/06/illustrator-saturday-sheralyn-barnes/
Manelle Oliphant – http://kathytemean.wordpress.com/2013/04/13/illustrator-saturday-manelle-oliphant/
Shawna JC Tenney – http://kathytemean.wordpress.com/2013/04/20/illustrator-saturday-shawna-jc-tenney/
Kary Lee – http://kathytemean.wordpress.com/2013/04/27/illustrator-saturday-kary-lee/
Alicia Schwab – http://kathytemean.wordpress.com/2013/05/04/illustrator-saturday-alicia-schwab/
Denise Ortakles – http://kathytemean.wordpress.com/2013/05/11/illustrator-saturday-denise-ortakales/
Tracy Campbell – http://kathytemean.wordpress.com/2013/05/18/illustrator-saturday-tracy-campbell/
John Manners – http://kathytemean.wordpress.com/2013/05/25/illustrator-saturday-john-manders/
Susan Eaddy – http://kathytemean.wordpress.com/2013/06/01/illustrator-saturday-susan-eaddy/
Kirsten Carlson – http://kathytemean.wordpress.com/2013/06/08/illustrator-saturday-kirsten-carlson/
Andrea Offerman – http://kathytemean.wordpress.com/2013/06/15/illustrator-saturday-andrea-offermann/
Jason Kirschner – http://kathytemean.wordpress.com/2013/06/22/illustrator-saturday-jason-kirschner/
If you are an illustrator who would like to be featured on Illustrator Saturday, email me a link where I can see you work. Remember, even if you don’t have a lot of work for a whole feature, I do feature illustrations from artists through the month. Hope to hear from you.
Talk tomorrow,
Kathy
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By: Kathy Temean,
on 6/13/2013
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CALL FOR ILLUSTRATIONS: Please remember to send in your illustrations for June. It is a great way to get seen and keep your name out there to get noticed. Send to Kathy.temean(at)gmail.com. Please submit .jpgs at least 500 pixels wide.
Anna Olswanger has agreed to be our Guest Critiquer for June’s First Page. For those who like the picture prompt, you will find it at the bottom of this post.
Anna Olswanger is a literary agent with Liza Dawson Associates in New York. Anna has been a literary agent since 2005 and has sold to Boyds Mills Press, Marshall Cavendish, Dutton, HarperCollins, McElderry, Pomegranate, and Random House Children’s Books, among other publishers. Specializing in: middle grade and young adult fiction and nonfiction, some adult fiction and nonfiction, children’s illustrated books, and Judaica.
Anna is particularly interested in working with author-illustrators.Anna enjoys discovering new authors and illustrators. She is looking for “voice,” the sound and rhythm of an author that could be no one else’s, and has a special interest in children’s picture books (author-illustrators only), adult nonfiction, Judaica, animal stories, and ghost stories. Contact her at [email protected].
In addition to being an agent, she is the author of the picture book Shlemiel Crooks, a Sydney Taylor Honor Book and a Koret International Jewish Book Award Finalist.
You may have attended some of her workshops, like Why Was My Manuscript Rejected? 3 Agents, 3 Opinions, with two other agents (see www.3LiteraryAgents.com). Writers in the Northeast may also know Anna, because she coorinated the Jewish Children’s Book Writers’ Conference at the 92nd Street Y for many years. In addition, she founded the website http://www.Host-a-Jewish-Book-Author.com
Anna’s own website is www.olswanger.com.
Submission Guidelines for Anna Olswanger:
I only accept email queries (no snail mail queries, please.)
Please insert (cut and paste) the first five pages of your manuscript into the body of your email. (I’m leery of opening attachments from addresses I don’t know.)
Queries to: [email protected]
June’s Picture Prompt illustration was created by Shawna JC Tenney. She was recently featured on Illustrators Saturday. http://kathytemean.wordpress.com/2013/04/20/illustrator-saturday-shawna-jc-tenney/
WRITERS Sending in a First Page: Please attach your double spaced, 12 point font, 23 line first page to an e-mail and send it to kathy(dot)temean(at)gmail(dot)com. Also cut and paste it into the body of the e-mail. Put “June First Page Critique” or “June First Page Picture Prompt Critique” in the subject line. Make sure you have your name on the submission, a title, and indicate the genre.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: JUNE 17th .
The four chosen and their critiques will be posted on June 28th.
Talk tomorrow,
Kathy
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By: Kathy Temean,
on 5/23/2013
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Anna Olswanger has agreed to be our Guest Critiquer for June’s First Page. Deadline will be June 18th, so I wanted to give you an early heads up. For those who like the picture prompt, you will find it at the bottom of this post.
Anna Olswanger is a literary agent with Liza Dawson Associates in New York. Anna has been a literary agent since 2005 and has sold to Boyds Mills Press, Marshall Cavendish, Dutton, HarperCollins, McElderry, Pomegranate, and Random House Children’s Books, among other publishers. Specializing in: middle grade and young adult fiction and nonfiction, some adult fiction and nonfiction, children’s illustrated books, and Judaica.
Anna is particularly interested in working with author-illustrators.Anna enjoys discovering new authors and illustrators. She is looking for “voice,” the sound and rhythm of an author that could be no one else’s, and has a special interest in children’s picture books (author-illustrators only), adult nonfiction, Judaica, animal stories, and ghost stories. Contact her at [email protected].
Ms. Olswanger has a background in editing and has worked with the author Mary Ann Schaffer on the adult novel The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, which became an international bestseller.
She represents Jim Carroll’s THE BOY AND THE MOON (Sleeping Bear Press), Nell Dickerson’s GONE (BelleBooks), Luli Gray’s ANT & GRASSHOPPER (McElderry), Michael Hall’s MY HEART IS LIKE A ZOO and PERFECT SQUARE (Greenwillow), Zack Miller’s TRADESTREAM YOUR WAY TO PROFITS: Building a Killer Portfolio in the Age of Social Media (Wiley), Margaret Peot’s INKBLOT (Boyds Mills Press) and THE SUCCESSFUL ARTIST’S CAREER GUIDE (North Light Books/F+W) Barry Rothstein’s EYE-POPPING 3-D BUGS (Chronicle), Jennifer Sattler’s SYLVIE (Random House Children’s Books), CHICK ‘N’ PUG and PIG KAHUNA (Bloomsbury Children’s Books), and upcoming books by Allida Black (Penguin Classics), Cathy Fishman (Cavendish), Brett Hartman (Cinco Puntos), Michelle Markel (Balzer & Bray, Eerdmans, and Chronicle), Patricia Hruby Powell (Chronicle), Alan Rabinowitz (Houghton Mifflin), Vince Vawter (Delacorte) and composer Marvin Hamlisch (Dial).
In addition to being an agent, she is the author of the picture book Shlemiel Crooks, a Sydney Taylor Honor Book and a Koret International Jewish Book Award Finalist.
You may have attended some of her workshops, like Why Was My Manuscript Rejected? 3 Agents, 3 Opinions, with two other agents (see www.3LiteraryAgents.com). Writers in the Northeast may also know Anna, because she coorinated the Jewish Children’s Book Writers’ Conference at the 92nd Street Y for many years. In addition, she founded the website http://www.Host-a-Jewish-Book-Author.com
Anna’s own website is www.olswanger.com.
Anna Olswanger, Literary Agent
Liza Dawson Associates 350 Seventh Avenue, Ste. 2003 New York, NY 10001 Direct tel.: +1-201-791-4699
www.olswanger.com www.shlemielcrooks.com www.host-a-jewish-book-author.com
Submission Guidelines for Anna Olswanger:
I only accept email queries (no snail mail queries, please.)
Please insert (cut and paste) the first five pages of your manuscript into the body of your email. (I’m leery of opening attachments from addresses I don’t know.)
Queries to: [email protected]
Lisa Dawson Associates says:
- We understand the priorities and passions that motivate editors, publicists, sales directors, and marketing directors.
- We consider each of our books to be an exciting kernel that can grow – into an international bestseller, into a movie, into a calendar, into a career. That’s the power of a thrillingly told story, and that’s what people expect from our submissions.
Liza Dawson Associates
350 Seventh Avenue, Suite 2003
New York, NY 10001
www.LizaDawsonAssicates,com
June’s Picture Prompt illustration was created by Shawna JC Tenney. She was recently featured on Illustrators Saturday. http://kathytemean.wordpress.com/2013/04/20/illustrator-saturday-shawna-jc-tenney/
Talk tomorrow,
Kathy
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Another VERY intriguing picture prompt, Kathy And a wonderful opportunity with Emily. Again, I WANT to participate. I hope I can! Thank you for doing this all the time. It’s one of my favorite things!
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