10 Mistakes That Get Kidlit Manuscripts Rejected & How to Avoid Them
Avoiding the Most Common Mistakes That Can Sink a Manuscript’s Chance of Getting Published
with Deborah Halverson
An exclusive WriteForKids Session™
Who It’s For: All kidlit writers who want to improve their craft, appeal to editors and agents and avoid rejection letters.
What It Does: You’ll learn the specific mistakes editors see again and again – and how to avoid them forever.
What You Get: Lifetime Access to the Full Workshop + PDF Handout.
There are 10 specific things will cause an editor to reject your kidlit manuscript. You’re about to learn them, and how to avoid them.
Forever.
The submissions process may seem mysterious, and the reasons why some manuscripts get rejected while others get contracts appear arbitrary and unknowable.
Except that they’re not.
If you managed to get kidlit editors to open up and tell you what turns them off about a manuscript — and what gets them excited — they’d tell you about 10 writing sins that send a manuscript to the rejection file.
What if you knew each of them and knew how to avoid them?
Once you’ve spent some time with Deborah Halverson, you will.
Deborah was an editor at Harcourt Children’s Books for over a decade, and is a successful kidlit author in her own right. In 10 Mistakes That Get Kidlit Manuscripts Rejected & How to Avoid Them , she’ll show you exactly how to avoid the biggest writing sins that get manuscripts rejected.
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10 Mistakes That Get Kidlit Manuscripts Rejected & How to Avoid Them
You’ll learn:
10 Writing Sins that get kidlit manuscripts rejected.
Actionable steps and techniques you can employ to avoid these mistakes and/or correct them in your work.
What gets editors excited — and what turns them off.
How to write an effective three-paragraph query letter.
…and much more!
IMPORTANT: This workshop is not about the obvious things (typos, sloppy presentation, etc.) It features the less obvious and higher-level writing, editing and revision techniques that only a top pro would know!
Deborah was an editor at Harcourt Children’s Books for ten years—until she climbed over the desk and tried out the author’s chair on the other side. Now she is the award-winning author of Writing Young Adult Fiction For Dummies, Writing New Adult Fiction, the teen novels Honk If You Hate Me and Big Mouth, the picture book Letters to Santa, and three books in the Remix series for struggling readers.
Deborah is a freelance editor, writing instructor, and founder of the popular writers’ advice website DearEditor.com. She serves on the advisory board for the University of California San Diego Extension “Children’s Book Writing and Illustrating” certificate program and speaks extensively at writing conferences and workshops. She has been working with authors—bestsellers, veterans, debut, and aspiring—for over twenty years.
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This was magnificent. I learned so much.
Kimberly B.
Lifetime Access to the Full Workshop & Handouts
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Full 90 minute workshop!
Info-packed PDF Handout
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