Guide to Getting Published for Teachers and Kids
| No matter how you’ve come to the writing life, and no matter how your students get there, if you’ve never tried to get something published before, this guide from Golden Apple Fellow Cheryl Chapman should help you! You will learn the basics:
Download the Guide to Getting Published [PDF, 16 pp]> Back to Free Resources page> | From the Guide to Getting Published: [E]ven if Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are is your all-time favorite story, and your manuscript is written in exactly that same spirit, things have changed since that book was published decades ago. Significantly...Believe me, publishing houses are like merry-go-rounds, and editors get on and off at an astounding rate. But what you are hoping for is to submit your story to the same editor that edited whatever book you chose to compliment in your cover letter. That gets you “street cred” for knowing their list, and if you luck into the exact editor from the book you mentioned, possibly a new friend. |
Cheryl Chapman, a 1997 Golden Apple Fellow, was a born writer. As the oldest of 5 children, she learned to entertain her young siblings and their friends early on with better stories and illustrations than Dr. Seuss could do! Her first nationally published piece came at age ten, and she continued the writing life through high school where she was the president of the "Scribblers Club." Motherhood, travel, church, world events, and friendships made her poems, imaginings, liturgies, and editorials flow. Finally, her work in the classroom with Head Start students inspired her to write children's picture books for publication. Writing was her favorite subject to teach. Now retired by the shores of Lake Michigan, she writes all the time and is happy to mentor younger writers to do the same!