McKinzie's Blog

Almost made a big mistake!

So...I decided to send three of my children's stories to a publisher who then promptly sent contracts for each one (it happened rather quickly). Before signing, I decided to do some more in-depth research (because they were so quick to respond) and went to Preditors and Editors. As I read all the information about Publish America, I did more research and realized that I almost made a huge mistake. Evidently, there has been a lot going on with them in all areas and they aren't the legit publisher that they claim to be. Also, get this, they have over 47,000 authors!!!! Geez, what does that say? I quickly deleted the contracts that they sent me with a huge sigh of relief.

The only thing stopping me from sending my children's stories out is that I'm not an illustrator. The requirements are that you need to send a complete manuscript with illustrations to an agent who, if accepted, will send it to the appropriately interested publisher. The big children's stories publishers don't accept unsolicited material.

I have a girlfriend out in CA (who's a graphic artist) who said that she would like to try and do my Dinkerville illustrations. She offered. I didn't ask her. This was Over a year ago and still nothing. How disappointing.

I figured that while I'm so busy in school and since I haven't had time to complete my rewrite of Dark Moon Harvest then I could at least send some of my completed children's pieces.

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