Children’s Fiction: Write Compelling Adventure Stories
Submitting
A course by Ross Montgomery , Children's Author
Joined December 2020
Joined December 2020
About the video: Submitting
Overview
“In this lesson, I'll talk about how to submit your work―from writing a cover letter to sending it out! We'll also be talking about the things to consider and mistakes to avoid before diving into the question of how to deal with rejection.”
In this video lesson Ross Montgomery addresses the topic: Submitting, 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
“Submitting In this lesson, I'll talk about how to submit your work. How to write a covering letter, things to consider, mistakes to avoid and importantly, what to do in the face of rejection. By now, you've hopefully done your research and you should have a list of agents that you want to submit to. I've suggested ten. It doesn't have to be that many. You could do fewer if you wanted to, you could also do more. I submitted to 50 different agents before I finally found one who I wanted to sign with. You should prepare yourself for the fact that you may well get lots of people saying no, but ...”
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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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