Heather Ayris Burnell

Yes, I realize I have been a bit absent as of late. You see, on top of apple harvest (my first one ever as an orchardist), it is also garlic...

Not too long ago I featured Brianne Johnson of Writers House on my Monster List of Picture Book Agents . That led me to talking to Diana Mur...

Submitting a manuscript can be hard! It can be scary to put your work out there. It can also be fun! I hear from lots of writers who are afr...

Chop chop! Word counts for picture books are tight. Every word has to count. Before you even think of submitting a manuscript to an agent or...

Natalie Fischer Lakosil is an Assistant Agent at Bradford Literary Agency . She was formerly at Sandra Dijkstra Literary agency for four yea...

My daughter, Ellamae, has been a book lover all of her life. I started reading to her when she was a baby. She started going to storytime a...

As you may have observed if you care to pay attention to any of my online blathering, I do a strange assortment of things. First and foremos...