MEREDITH MUNDY, Executive Editor, Sterling Children’s Books has agreed to being April’s Guest Critiquer. If you haven’t met Meredith, you can meet her at the New Jersey SCBWI Conference in Princeton, NJ this June. She is a wonderful editor and a lovely person. She knows her stuff.
Meredith Mundy has been with Sterling Children’s Books for 8 years, following 11 years at Dutton Children’s Books. She is nuts about character-centered picture books (recent projects include The Big Bad Wolf Goes on Vacation by Delphine Perret, A Pirate’s Twelve Days of Christmas by Philip Yates, and Ten on the Sled by Kim Norman), but she is also seeking everything from funny, original board books to unforgettable middle grade novels to YA fiction. (No vampires, angels, mermaids, or werewolves, please, and she doesn’t usually acquire historical fiction.) While she enjoys editing nonfiction, she wouldn’t be the right editor for poetry collections or a project geared primarily toward the school and library market.
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 “April First Page Critique” or “April First Page Picture Prompt Critique” in the subject line. Make sure you have your name on the submission, a title, and indicate the genre. Also let me know if you were able to post of facebook or Tweet. That will get your name in the basket an additional time, when I am choosing the four pages. If you don’t have either of these, just leave a comment and let me know. If you end up doing more things to get additional entries, then e-mail me a note by April 20th. The four chosen and their critiques will be posted on April 26th.
This first page picture prompt was done by Susan Dietwiler. Susan was feature on March 9th. You can use this link http://wp.me/pss2W-6jt to view her artwork.
AUTHORS: If you have a new book coming out and want to be considered for a post, please e-mail me at: Kathy.temean (at) gmail.com
Call for illustrations for April: You can send anything, but I am especially looking for illustrations that reflect the month. I hope you will send something in. Last month, I did not receive very many. This is a good way to get your work seen. Don’t wait, I will post the illustrations as they come in. Please make sure the illustration is at least 500 pixels wide and include a blurb about yourself and a link to see more of your work. Please send it to kathy(dot)temean(at)gmail(dot)com and put “April Illustration” in the subject box.
Talk tomorrow,
Kathy
With all the postings in which you mention who’s going to be at the conference, I know I’ll be missing out on meeting some great new faculty!
And this illustration is gorgeous! I remember when you put Susan’s work up on Illustrator Saturday, too 🙂 I LOVE this though…so clever with the chairs made of pencils and the candleholder is a bottle cap. Adorable. I’m so inclined to write a first page, but don’t think I’ll be able to 😦 What I really want to know is what are the things on the table with the carrots? Seeds? Nuts? Susan, I really want to know! lol
Thanks, ladies 🙂
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By: :Donna Marie on April 5, 2013
at 12:28 am
Kathy, thanks for the opportunity.
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By: Janie Reinart on April 6, 2013
at 11:42 am
Thanks for this, Kathy! I love the picture prompt and can’t wait to get started on my first page!! Meredith presented at our SCBWI conference last fall and she was awesome!! I hope I win the critique 🙂
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By: Lori Degman (@LoriDegman) on April 7, 2013
at 1:52 pm
Lori,
I love Meredith. After being a Regional Advisor for ten years, it seems like we go way back.
Kathy
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By: Kathy Temean on April 17, 2013
at 4:26 pm
I just posted this to Facebook and sent to the Charlotte SCBWI critique group. Even though Meredith doesn’t “usually” take historical fiction, maybe she’ll love my first page! Thanks for hosting this Kathy.
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By: Carol Federlin Baldwin on April 13, 2013
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Carol,
Or maybe the editor for May might be good. I’m going to announce her on Friday. Thanks for always promoting things for me.
Kathy
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By: Kathy Temean on April 17, 2013
at 3:50 pm
Thanks for this opportunity, Kathy. I am sending in my first page and shared this on my Facebook page.
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By: Kirsten Larson on April 14, 2013
at 5:23 pm
Kirsten,
Good luck with having your first page selected.
Kathy
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By: Kathy Temean on April 17, 2013
at 3:41 pm
Sorry about the technical difficulties.
Thanks for checking out my tale of two crumbsnatchers. 🙂
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By: Desiree Batson on April 17, 2013
at 12:57 pm
Desiree,
Did we have technical difficulties? I’m so busy I don’t even remember.
Kathy
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By: Kathy Temean on April 17, 2013
at 3:36 pm
Thank you for this opportunity! Should the First Page submission revolve around the mice illustration above, or can it be any first page of a MS? Thanks!
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By: Carrie Charley Brown on April 17, 2013
at 7:07 pm
Carrie,
It can be either. It seems some people like the picture prompt, so I continue to give writers and choice.
Kathy
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By: Kathy Temean on April 17, 2013
at 7:20 pm
Hi I’ve put this up on my facebook page and twitter feed!
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By: csoundar on April 19, 2013
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csoundar,
Thanks for helping to spread the word.
Kathy
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By: Kathy Temean on April 19, 2013
at 2:33 pm
Thanks for this wonderful opportunity Kathy.
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By: Liz LeSavoy on April 22, 2013
at 8:51 am
Hey I know this is off topic but I was wondering if you knew of any widgets
I could add to my blog that automatically tweet my newest twitter
updates. I’ve been looking for a plug-in like this for quite some time and was hoping maybe you would have some experience with something like this. Please let me know if you run into anything. I truly enjoy reading your blog and I look forward to your new updates.
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By: JJ Usher on June 15, 2013
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JJ
If you have WordPress, they have a widget that you can use that will send everything you write a tweet and send it to Twitter, facebook, Linkedin, etc. I think Blogger has a widget, too.
Kathy
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By: Kathy Temean on June 15, 2013
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