Getting these awards is what helps the book take off. It is a lot of work, they have to fill out all of the paper work and ship a couple hundred books to the right person at the right time. Publishers, at their own cost submit books for awards. And if they don’t know you, they don’t know if you are up to that task.
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It often is a big task and can be tricky to figure out how to make edits and changes. Manuscripts always have rewrites and iterations. However, if you contact Will, he doesn’t know who you are and what you are like. This is hard work and takes a thick skin. When an illustrator gets contacted to help with a book, the manuscript has gone through a lot of rewrites.
They can’t think of an example of two amateurs who got a book published together that did super well. However, this is different, because they were two pros working together. They filed their book jointly and then 3 different publishers got into a bidding war over it. One book that may be an exception to this : Sometimes there are books that get picked up by publishers that started on Kickstarter.Įven your online followers on social media has an influence on how much of an advance you are allotted. This is something that may be frowned upon merely because it’s a little more new. A new author with a new illustrator, or vice versa, is too much of a financial gamble.Īs you have more experience and become more well known you may have more power and influence on who you are paired up with.Īnother reason Will would be hesitant to file jointly with an amateur is that it may look bad or affect publishers’ perception of him.Įven doing lots of things on Kickstarter can look amateur. They have marketing purposes, often they like to pair a more veteran author or illustrator with a newer author or illustrator. There are many other reasons as to why they want to personally pair their artists and illustrators. As with everything, there are exceptions. They oft times will dismiss you, just because you are filing jointly, and the art is already done. They have more art and manuscripts than they can publish. Publishers don’t want to be in an awkward situation where they love the manuscript but they hate the art, then they have to tell you and it can be something they just would rather avoid. You wouldn’t go around prescribing medication to people before learning what their symptoms are and so is the same with writing and illustrating children’s books. Some people jump to conclusions and think that just because someone can draw and someone has a children’s book idea that they should be paired to work together, without doing research beforehand to see if they would be a good match. They have resources and lots of connections to find the best match. They take pride in this, one of the publisher’s major roles is to find the right illustrator and match them with the right manuscript.
The Most Asked Question: how do I find an illustrator?Įditor will tell the writer, you don’t need to find the illustrator, that’s our job. This question, about, how to deal with people asking you to do their children’s book, is talked about often at SCWI. Here are Will’s 10 Reasons for why “I can’t illustrate your children’s book.” Some of them deal more with submitting a book with an author to a publisher or self publishing they are all things to consider and reasons for why you may want to second guess saying yes to that lady you know who wants you to illustrate her book. In this episode we get into the details of book publishing, including the economic, social, and career building reasons we take on certain book projects, and why we say no to others. Every time we get an offer to do a book we feel super grateful and flattered that someone would want one of us to illustrate a book for them, but for many reasons we can’t say yes.
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