Children’s Fiction: Write Compelling Adventure Stories
Research
A course by Ross Montgomery , Children's Author
Joined December 2020
Joined December 2020
About the video: Research
Overview
“Let's talk about how to plan your submission: researching the current market, finding a list of agents to submit to, and engaging with the wider writing community.”
In this video lesson Ross Montgomery addresses the topic: Research, which is part of the Domestika online course: Children’s Fiction: Write Compelling Adventure Stories. Explore the process of writing a captivating quest story for children and create a one-page synopsis of your book ready to submit to a literary agent.
Partial transcription of the video
“Research Now, I'll talk about how to plan your submission, how to research the market, how to find a list of agents to submit to and how to engage with a wider writing community. The publishing industry is different all over the world. Almost all of my experience comes from writing within the UK. When you start out, you'll need to look at how my advice might not be totally correct for where you're submitting to. However, I would imagine that when it comes to finding an agent you want to submit to or submitting to a publisher, they're almost always going to ask for two key things. One of the...”
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Course summary for: Children’s Fiction: Write Compelling Adventure Stories
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Category
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Areas
Children's Literature, Fiction Writing, Narrative, Writing
Ross Montgomery
A course by Ross Montgomery
Ross Montgomery is an award-winning children’s author, who has been an avid reader and writer since childhood. He began his career as a primary school teacher and in the school holidays started writing a book for young readers. Alex, the Dog and the Unopenable Door, Ross’ professional writing debut, kick started his career as an author in 2013. The book was also shortlisted for the Costa Children’s Book Award and selected as The Sunday Times Top 100 Modern Children’s Classics.
Since then, Ross has written over 20 books for young readers, everything from picture books to short stories to novels, all of which are full of humor, magic, and adventure. His titles include Perijee and Me which won the Weald Book Award and Max and the Millions, both of which were nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Award. Ross also leads writing workshops for both children and adults.
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