Succeed in the Shifting Kidlit Landscape
How to Succeed in the Shifting Kidlit Landscape
A Top Agent Reveals What Publishers Want *Right Now*
with Sera Rivers
Who It’s For: Every kidlit writer who wants future-proof their success.
What It Does: You’ll get up to speed on exactly what’s working – and not working – in the current publishing environment, with hands-on advice to keep you moving in the right direction.
What You Get: Lifetime Access to the Full Workshop + PDF Handout.
The publishing world is in the midst of seismic change.
Are you positioned to succeed right now?
Are you prepared for what comes next?
Kidlit publishing has changed dramatically in the past decade. That’s either cause for panic, or an opportunity waiting to be jumped on.
Literary agent Sera Rivers is one of publishing’s rising stars. One key reason for Sera’s success is her ability to gauge the massive changes taking place in publishing and use them to the advantage of her clients.
In this exclusive Session, she reveals her insider knowledge to help you take advantage of some significant new opportunities.
By understanding what’s taking place in the kidlit publishing world, Sera will help transform your fear and apprehension into positive, focused action.
She also provides specific advice about the hottest categories, changes in the ways editors do their jobs and the business realities that shape their decision making.
This is crucial inside information that will ease your concerns and help you move forward in your writing career now – and into the future.
The Changes Are Real.
After a decade of COVID, mergers, acquisitions, consolidation and cultural shifts, much about the kidlit world seems unrecognizable from just a few years ago.
The fundamentals of writing – dialogue, plot, character development, setting and such – still apply. But the machinery that puts that writing into the world has been transformed.
For some, that’s an obstacle that simply cannot be overcome. But for those with access to someone like Sera Rivers, it’s an opportunity to move forward with confidence and excitement.
Sera will teach you what’s selling now, the new opportunities provided by specialty imprints and the expanding indie bookstore segment, and how to connect with today’s editors to give your manuscript an advantage over the competition.
You'll Learn:
- What kidlit publishers are looking for *right now*.
- How COVID transformed publishing, and what it means going forward.
- How mergers and consolidation have led to some surprising opportunities for writers.
- What Universal Themes are, and why they're critical moving forward.
- The kidlit categories that will attract the most attention in the near future.
- Who the new breed of editorial gatekeepers are, and how to authentically connect with them.
- How agents view the current environment, and why it matters.
- How to make your manuscript stand out from the glut of submissions.
- Why "crossover appeal" is a magic phrase for publishers.
You Get Lifetime Access to the Full Workshop & Handouts
