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Children’s Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook

May 25, 2009 by Roy Johnson

best-selling guide to publishers, agents, and outlets

This is the ‘writing for children’ version of the best-selling writer’s yearbook and manual, which has come up with a winning formula. It lists all the resources any serious writer could need – the names, addresses, and contact details for publishers and agents, outlets for freelancers, and institutions which offer help to writers. Woven between these listings (which are updated every year) there are specially commissioned essays and articles by famous authors and illustrators – such as Children’s Laureate Michael Morpurgo and JK Rowling; top editors and best-selling publishers; leading TV and radio producers, and other experts in the field of children’s media.

Childrens Writers and Artists YearbookThese give invaluable first-hand accounts of how the world of professional writing actually operates. Anyone aspiring to write for children will find these invaluable. The latest edition includes chapters entitled: How to Get an Agent; Learning to Write for Children; Writing Humour for Young Children; Do I Have to Have an Agent to Succeed?; What Does an Editor Do?; Eight Great Tips to Get Your Picture Book Published; UK Copyright Law; Writing Comedy for Children’s Television; Children’s Evergreens & Best Sellers; Out of the Slush Pile; Teenage Fiction; Marketing, Publicising and Selling Children’s Books; Illustrating for Children’s Books;

Like many other reference books, this guide represents very good value for money in terms of bulk information – but more importantly it’s information which is reliable, up-to-date, and difficult to locate elsewhere.

If you have any serious intention of entering the commercial market as a children’s writer or someone working in one of the associated creative arts – then this is a book which you will need sooner or later.

© Roy Johnson 2014

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Children’s Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook, London: A & C Black, 7th revised edition 2014, pp.480, ISBN: 1408195127


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Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook

May 25, 2009 by Roy Johnson

best-selling guide to publishers, agents, and outlets

If you’ve just finished producing your masterpiece, this writer’s yearbook will help you to bring it to the marketplace. It’s a well-established reference guide for writers, journalists, photographers, and other people in the creative arts. The heart of the book is its amazingly comprehensive listings. It offers full contact details of publishers, agents, and institutions who deal with writers and creative arts people. The lists cover the UK and US, as well as other English-speaking countries.

Writers & Artists YearbookIn recent years, short essays have been added to each section offering advice to would-be writers and media workers. Pay attention to these: they’re written by professionals with experience and a proven track record. The information they offer will repay the price of the book ten times over. They cover fiction and poetry; drama scripts for TV, radio, theatre, and film; graphic illustration and design; plus photography and music. The other features which make it useful are general information on publishing methods, copyright and libel, income tax and allowances, and a particularly useful list of annual competitions and their prizes.

Bonus items seem to be added with each edition – such as a list of the highest earning books of the previous year, specialist literary agents, how to prepare and submit a manuscript, and even (if the worst comes to the worst) how to claim social security benefits. The latest edition also includes sections on e-publishing, ghostwriting, distribution, adaptation, and digital imaging.

Additions to the latest edition include: Self-publishing; How to publicise your book; How to get an agent’s attention: Getting cartoons published; Blogging; Crime writing; and Can you recommend an agent?

Like many other reference books, it represents very good value for money in terms of bulk information – but more importantly it’s information which is reliable, up-to-date, and difficult to locate elsewhere.

If you have any serious intention of entering the commercial market as a writer or someone working in one of the other creative arts – then this is a book which you will need sooner or later. It’s no wonder that it sits near the top of the Amazon ratings all the year round.

© Roy Johnson 2012

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Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook, London: A & C Black (issued annually) pp.816, ISBN: 1408192195


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