Heather Ayris Burnell

With the start of a New Year writing and submitting time seems to reset. It just can't help but feel like an exciting time to kick up ou...

Mary Cummings is the literary agent representing children's writers at Betsy Amster Literary Enterprises  where she has been since 200...

Avoid clichés like the plague.  ß Ha! See what I did there? Yup, we use clichés all the time. It seems to me that clichés come to be ...

I've been posting to The Monster List of Picture Book Agents for a while now. Yes, sometimes there are can be longish periods of ti...

Keeping track of submissions is important!  I posted this over at Sub It Club , but thought I would post it here too because so many of you ...

I am pretty darn good at waiting. I actually like to think of myself as a professional waiter. No, not the kind that waits on tables. The ki...

As you probably would figure, I try to keep on top of agent news for the Monster List of Picture Book Agents as well as for Sub It Club . ...