SUBMITTING YOUR WORK

Here are a few websites and blogs I've run across recently that talk about cover letters, query letters, and submitting your work:

"Rites of Submission: Cover Letters and Query Letters"
Jacqueline K. Ogburn, Harold's Purple Crayon
http://www.underdown.org/covlettr.htm

• Includes samples of a bad letter and a good one

"From Keyboard to Printed Page: Facts You Need to Know"
Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators
www.scbwi.org

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"To Staple or Not to Staple, and Other Manuscript Format Issues"

Harold Underdown, The Purple Crayon Blog
http://www.underdown.org/blog_1005.htm#staple

"A Crash Course in Submitting a Manuscript"
Laura Backes, Write4Kids.com
http://www.write101.com/chcrash.htm

"10 FAQs About Children's Book Publishing"
Robin Michal Koontz, SCBWI-Illinois
http://www.scbwi-illinois.org/FAQ.html

"Alice's CWIM Blog: Not-Quite-Daily News and Musings from the Editor of Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market"
Alice Pope
http://cwim.blogspot.com/

Jan Fields, Institute of Children's Literature:
"Cover Letters Made S-S-Simple"
http://www.institutechildrenslit.com/rx/ws08/simplecover.shtml
"Postage-Free Submissions" (on email submissions)
http://www.institutechildrenslit.com/rx/ws04/postage.shtml
"Crafting Clever Queries"
http://www.institutechildrenslit.com/rx/ws07/cleverqueries.shtml