Marietta Zacker is an agent at Nancy Galt Literary Agency.
Marietta has experienced children’s books from every angle – teaching, marketing, publishing and bookselling.
She thrives on working with authors who make readers feel their characters’ emotions and illustrators who add a different dimension to the story.
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One of the things I’ve noticed my graduate creative writing students struggling with is where exactly to start in a book.
I’ve had two students fill up the first 40 pages of their novels with excruciating back-story details involving family history, blood-lines, place of birth,
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Congratulations to Nikki Loftin on the release of Wish Girl (Razorbill, 2015). From the promotional copy:
Annie Blythe is dying, but she can give Peter Stone the strength to live.
Peter Stone’s parents and siblings are extroverts,
Greet Pauwelijn
Greet Pauwelijn is publisher with Book Island, as well as a translator.
True to Book Island’s bold dream of enriching children’s and adults’ lives in the English- and Dutch-language market, she publishes children’s books in English and Dutch.
She does this by bringing unique stories from Europe to the shores of New Zealand,
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The annual award will showcase the best picture book manuscript as selected by a panel of judges and will be among the few children’s book honors with a cash prize.
Roanoke, Va. – Hollins University is paying tribute to one of its best-known alumnae and one of America’s most beloved children’s authors by establishing a literary award in her name.
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Sometimes it can be helpful to think about endings when you’re at the beginning of the process—not plotting the ending, but doing a bit of free, no-holds-barred thinking about your character’s emotional inner journey and where you hope she goes.
This is what you write towards,
Today’s release of Feral Pride means all of my Tantalize–Feral universe novels are available from Candlewick Press.
While all the books can stand alone, there’s likely best appreciated in concert.
This finale unites protagonists of the two series and brings back a number of other fan-fave characters.
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Check out the cover for Mirrored by Alex Flinn (HarperTeen, fall 2015). From the promotional copy:
Mirror, mirror in my hand…
Beauty is the key to everything. At least, that’s how it seems to Violet—ugly,
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Check out the cover for Nutcracker Comes to America: How Three Ballet-Loving Brothers Created a Holiday Tradition by Chris Barton, illustrated by Cathy Gendron (Millbrook, 2015).
The Universality of Being an Outsider by Jacqueline Jules from Latin@s in Kidlit.
Esther Hershenhorn is an award-winning Chicago children’s book author.
She coaches children’s book writers and teaches Children’s Book Writing at the Writer’s Studio of the University of Chicago’s Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies and the Newberry Library.
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