Today I’m happy to welcome Saba Sulaiman to the Sub It Club blog! Saba is a Junior Agent at Talcott Notch Literary Services. Before being promoted she was an assistant working through thousands of queries in a number of genres. Prior to coming to Talcott Notch, Saba was an editorial intern at Sourcebooks. Working with... Continue Reading →
Contest Roundup – Special 2 Year Anniversary Edition!
Hooray for opportunities! You'll find lots coming up in this month's Roundup. And since here at Sub It Club we're celebrating our two year anniversary we're putting together some opportunities to help you with submissions as well so I'm announcing them here in the Roundup. We have a pitch event on the 3rd, a critique giveaways... Continue Reading →
Critiquing for Maximum Benefit and Minimum Hurt Feelings–part 3 of 7, BONES, BONES WE DIG FOR BONES
Okay. By now you've taken advantage of the Sub It Club Critique Partner Matchup. So it's time to continue our journey toward Critiquing Greatness by looking at another important feature of a manuscript: the bones, or structure. STRUCTURE CHECKLIST Does the story start in the right place? All manuscripts, whether picture books, early chapter or... Continue Reading →
Sub It Club is 2 Years Old!
It's been two years since we started Sub It Club. Now there are writers and illustrators helping each other every day in our submission support group and we couldn’t be happier! This year due to popular demand we started a critique partner matchup group as well to help both our writer and illustrator members find those all... Continue Reading →
The Postcard Post: Roberta Baird
The Postcard Post for January features Roberta Baird. You may be lucky enough to have already seen her illustrations on social media and beyond. If not, sit back and enjoy getting to know Roberta and her postcards. Roberta Baird is an illustrator and writer. Her work has been featured in four books. One of her... Continue Reading →
The Longest Strange Submission Story Ever!
You've heard about strange submission stories I'm sure. Don't have one yet? The more you submit your work the more likely you are to get one of your own. The story we have today? Well, you'd have to be submitting for a long time to get something like this. Our anonymous guest decided to give... Continue Reading →