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A Childrens' Book Editor's Site

All the pages on my site can be reached from one of these main areas, or are listed individually below.

  • Basic Information: These articles provide guidance to people getting started in the children's publishing world and answer many typical questions.
  • Best of the Site: This page brings together the most visited, the most useful, and the best written resources on this site.
  • Book Reviews and Recommended Books: Individual book reviews and lists of recommended books.
  • Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Children's Books: Four complete chapters excerpted from my book, and other materials.
  • Detailed Information: Articles that address specific subjects in detail, perhaps specialized subjects.
  • Genres: These articles look at specific children's book genres, with a focus on writing them.
  • Illustrating: These articles cover topics for children's book illustrators beyond the beginning stage.
  • Interviews: Interviews with editors, authors, agents, illustrators, and others from the children's book world.
  • Margot Finke's "Musings": A monthly column by a published writer: a mix of how-to, self-help, and plenty of opinions.
  • Publishing: These articles cover the business side of publishing: how the business works, marketing, and so on.
  • Self-Publishing Information: Some warnings for those considering self-publishing and help with selecting a company providing self-publishing services, plus related articles.
  • Writing: These articles cover topics for children's book writers beyond the beginning stage

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