The new year brings a new market for children's book writers. Minneapolis publisher Scarletta Press is branching out with two new imprints. Scarletta Junior features fiction and nonfiction for middle grade readers, and Scarletta Kids publishes picture books and storybooks for children up to age eight.
Scarletta started publishing children’s books in 2011, with Lost in Lexicon, a novel by Pendred Noyce. A second children’s title, The Ice Castle, also by Noyce, followed a year later.
According
to Scarletta’s publicity director Desiree Bussiere, “We rethought our
structure: how to acquire books and what the future face of the company
would be. We realized we really enjoyed producing and marketing
children’s books. It prompted us to look for more children’s titles, and
thus create our imprints.”
Of the 12 titles Scarletta will
publish in 2013, six are Scarletta Kids titles, four are Scarletta
Junior titles, and two are adult titles.
Be advised, their reading
period is November 1 to March 1. Their Junior Readers and Kids imprints
focus on literature and picture books with educational twists, exciting
illustrations, and engaging plots.
Please query first with cover
letter, synopsis, and one or two chapters (30 pages or less). Agented
and unagented manuscripts are welcome. Send your query by mail or email
to:
Editor
Scarletta Press
10 South 5th Street, Suite 1105
Minneapolis, MN 55402
Or email an attachment to: info@scarlettapress.com
For more information please read Scarletta Press Submission Guidelines
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That's good news since MG and Picture books sell mostly in paperback form and they are so expensive to print for small publishers.
ReplyDeletePlus it's always good when a publisher opens up to unsolicited submissions. Too many won't.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the info!
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