Hey, everyone!
I generally write MG or YA fantasy, but I want to publish this tiny little story that my Grandma used to use to help me write my numbers when I was a kid (I always wrote half of them backwards) as a picture book.
So it would literally be like 10 pages long - one for each number (and zero). I could maaaaybe add in a page in the front about a kid having problems with his numbers and Grandma coming to help. We're talking maybe even a board book.
I know zippo-zilcho about this level of publishing. A few questions, then:
1) I hear agents/editors don't like it when authors try to give illustration notes (the illustrator is an equal collaborator and gets to come up with whatever they come up with, is the way I understand it) but due to the nature of this story (it explains why the numbers look and face the way they do) at least an idea of what the numbers look like seems in order. I'm a freelance artist, so my work won't be total garbage (although I'm not good enough an illustrator, I don't think, to design the whole thing myself).
2) Oh, and one more thing - I was thinking of publishing it in my Grandma's name (she passed years ago). Mostly to do her honor - hey, she wrote the story! - and also so people don't get to thinking that writing these kinds of books are my thing. What do you think of that?
3) Any resources you can point me to in educating myself on how to submit/query for something like this, or any advice on the topic? It seems like such a different world from my other writing!
Thank you for all your thoughts and assistance!
S
I generally write MG or YA fantasy, but I want to publish this tiny little story that my Grandma used to use to help me write my numbers when I was a kid (I always wrote half of them backwards) as a picture book.
So it would literally be like 10 pages long - one for each number (and zero). I could maaaaybe add in a page in the front about a kid having problems with his numbers and Grandma coming to help. We're talking maybe even a board book.
I know zippo-zilcho about this level of publishing. A few questions, then:
1) I hear agents/editors don't like it when authors try to give illustration notes (the illustrator is an equal collaborator and gets to come up with whatever they come up with, is the way I understand it) but due to the nature of this story (it explains why the numbers look and face the way they do) at least an idea of what the numbers look like seems in order. I'm a freelance artist, so my work won't be total garbage (although I'm not good enough an illustrator, I don't think, to design the whole thing myself).
2) Oh, and one more thing - I was thinking of publishing it in my Grandma's name (she passed years ago). Mostly to do her honor - hey, she wrote the story! - and also so people don't get to thinking that writing these kinds of books are my thing. What do you think of that?
3) Any resources you can point me to in educating myself on how to submit/query for something like this, or any advice on the topic? It seems like such a different world from my other writing!
Thank you for all your thoughts and assistance!
S