Pitch Writing for Non-fiction Picturebooks
Planning the Physical Book 2
A course by Isabel Thomas , Science Writer and Children's Book Author
Joined April 2021
Joined April 2021
About the video: Planning the Physical Book 2
Overview
“How are books printed and put together? I'll tell you all about it in this video. This is important to understand when you're planning the structure of your book. It will also help you decide when and how to add some novelty to your layout.”
In this video lesson Isabel Thomas addresses the topic: Planning the Physical Book 2, 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
“ Planning the Physical Book I've made myself here a dummy version or a fake version of a printed sheet of a pretend picture book. Imagine that when books are printed on printing presses, it's not done page by page. Many pages are printed on the same sheet of paper and that large sheet is folded up to create part of the book. In this case, we've got eight pages of the book being printed on each side of the paper. As you can see, these numbers are all over the place, they represent my page numbers and the orientation in which they're printed. You can see that the pages aren't printed sequent...”
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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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