Comments on: Best Kid’s Book Ever Needs Your Help!

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Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:01:32 +0000

[...] As I mentioned already John McCarthy wrote the best kids book ever, and I illustrated it. It’s a picture book, and we are now working on a companion piece for it - we see the two stories being published together as both are beautifully short. [...]

By: Frank

Frank — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:32:33 +0000

Yeah, well I don’t think we’re in any hurry so it could be nice to spend time getting to know the angles…. but any shortcuts to that end would be great!

By: Bif

Bif — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:43:58 +0000

Apparently it is. All you can really do is submit to a few and see who bites. No doubt it could take a while.

By: Frank

Frank — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:17:27 +0000

Sounds like good advice. Is it difficult to get an agent?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:09:36 +0000

Get an agent… best advice anyone could give. Deal directly with publishers and you will be taken for a ride… more so than any cut an agent would take.

By: Bif

Bif — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:44:24 +0000

It’s got contacts and stuff like that in it. Just bought it on impulse a couple of weeks. Haven’t really looked at it. Tomi Ungerer would be a very good idea and I seem to remember Sarah Maguire’s old man wrote a couple of children’s books aswell.

By: Frank

Frank — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:36:44 +0000

Thank Rich!

Bif, nice one that’d be great. Is it helpful? We haven’t a clue what kind of deal we should aim for or anything.

I was thinking after I posted this that I should ask Tomi Ungerer for advice too.

By: Bif

Bif — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:14:04 +0000

Well I have a copy of the Children’s writers and artist yearbook, if you want to have a look through it.

By: Rich..

Rich.. — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 11:59:27 +0000

I’ve seen it and it’s truly original ….absolutely brilliant.

If your a kid, you’ll laugh your head off.

If your a publisher, you’ll make a lot of money.

If your me, you’ll be smiling every time you think of it.

Thats it….I’m setting up a publishing company…..kids young and old need to see this book.