2015 SCBWI Europolitan Con: Agent Marietta Zacker

2015 SCBWI Europolitan Con: Agent Marietta Zacker

By Elisabeth Norton
 

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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2015 SCBWI Europolitan Con: Publisher Greet Pauwelijn of Book Island

2015 SCBWI Europolitan Con: Publisher Greet Pauwelijn of Book Island

Greet Pauwelijn

By Mina Witteman
 

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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Guest Post & Giveaway: Shirley Parenteau on Ship of Dolls

Guest Post & Giveaway: Shirley Parenteau on Ship of Dolls

By Shirley Parenteau

This picture of my then three-year-old granddaughter Michelle inadvertently sparked the idea for Ship of Dolls (Candlewick, 2014) and a forthcoming sequel, Dolls of Hope.

My son and daughter-in-law had taken Michelle to visit her maternal grandparents in Japan in time for the traditional girl’s day festival of Hintamatsuri.

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