Pitch Writing for Non-fiction Picturebooks
What Is a Pitch?
A course by Isabel Thomas , Science Writer and Children's Book Author
Joined April 2021
Joined April 2021
About the video: What Is a Pitch?
Overview
“Have you ever seen a pitching document before? Every author has their own way of doing things, and seeing the approach taken by other writers helped to demystify the process for me and give me the confidence to try pitching myself! So in this first lesson, I’ll show you the approach that I use when pitching children’s non-fiction books – and which you will then use to create your project for this course.”
In this video lesson Isabel Thomas addresses the topic: What Is a Pitch?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Pitch Writing for Non-fiction Picturebooks. Learn how to form a captivating idea for a picturebook and develop it into a professional book proposal that engages publishers.
Partial transcription of the video
“ What Is a Pitch? I have an idea I'm super excited about and I hope you do too. Now, it's time to start creating our professional pitch, the document that we'll use to tell other people about our idea and persuade them that they'll turn it into a non-fiction picture book. Now, I talked very briefly at the start of the course about the differences between pitching fiction and non-fiction. I'll recap some of those differences now. There are things you expect to see in both a non-fiction and a fiction picture book proposal. I've summarised some of these here. There's one big difference for a ...”
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Course summary for: Pitch Writing for Non-fiction Picturebooks
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Areas
Children's Illustration, Children's Literature, Creative Writing, Narrative, Non-Fiction Writing, Picturebook, Storyboard, Storytelling, Writing
Isabel Thomas
A course by Isabel Thomas
Isabel Thomas is an award-winning science writer and children's book author based near Cambridge, UK. She studied engineering science, then human sciences at the University of Oxford, during which time she worked at the student newspaper and fell in love with journalism. After graduating, Isabel worked as a then-trainee editor at a local publishing house where she began writing short books for beginner readers and working on her passion for writing in her spare time.
Isabel has since published more than 180 books in over 30 languages. Her critically-acclaimed book Moth: An Evolution Story won the AAAS Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books 2020 and was named a book of the summer by the Financial Times. She has also been shortlisted for other prizes including the Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize. As well as this Isabel writes features for children’s science magazines, creates non-fiction resources for organizations such as the BBC, and speaks at festivals, schools, and other events.
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