by Madeline Smoot | Oct 16, 2017 | Buried in the Slush Pile, publishing, submissions, submitting manuscripts
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been experimenting with Short Reads, one of the sections on Kindle. Taking classes and conference speeches and other material, I have been slowly, but surely converting them into articles to publish using KDP (Kindle Direct...
by Madeline Smoot | Apr 5, 2016 | Buried in the Slush Pile, children's book publishing, children's editing, submissions
Last week I got a submission. On the face this isn’t so odd. I get submissions all the time even though we aren’t taking unsolicited manuscripts over at CBAY right now. It wasn’t even unusual that this manuscript wasn’t for the kind of...
by Madeline Smoot | Mar 18, 2011 | CBAY Books, new editor, submissions
I’m so very excited because I get to welcome back Assistant Editor (aka Rebecca). She originally left CBAY to go to grad school, but she’ll finish that up this year, and for now is returning back to her old title. This is exciting for me because it means...
by Madeline Smoot | Mar 16, 2011 | book proposals, contests, submissions
At this stage in our book proposal, we are going to pause and take a brief break. Everything we’ve done so far are things you might find yourself submitting during a general submissions process. Since every publishing house/agency is a little bit different,...
by Madeline Smoot | Mar 11, 2011 | electronic submissions, picture book submissions, submissions
As of last night, I have officially read every single submission I received. Still, that leaves 142 manuscripts to respond too. Intern has a busy couple of weeks ahead. Of course, Intern won’t be going it completely alone — there are at least 29...
