I’ve realized that with all of the busy-ness over the summer I may not have told you about some of my sales.
“Jingle Bell Joy” is a Christmas essay about parenting during the holidays. It was accepted for the anthology “Mom for the Holidays,” due out by November through Monkey Star Press. I’ll put up the cover and provide a link as soon as it is all available.
“Learning to Love the Person God Created” is an inspirational essay accepted by Alive Now for their Janurary/February issue.
Schoolwide accepted 4 reprints: “A Horse of Another Color” (science/genetics), “Gertrude Ederle vs. the English Channel” (reader’s theater/history), “The Mole Meadow Menagerie” (biography), and “Caspians, The Protoarabians” (history). The piece on Ederle originally appeared in READ magazine. The other three pieces appeared in Young Equestrian. Susan Tierney, Schoolwide’s Acquisitions and Development Editor, also asked me to rewrite a second reader’s theater script, this one on Elijah McCoy.
CBI accepted 3 how-tos. The first, on research, will appear in the October newsletter. The second two pieces are a linked-pair on writing nonfiction. These will appear on their website.
That’s it for now. I know — isn’t it enough? I do still have some other work out there.
Crab Dad, my chapter book, has been out long enough to consider it a “no thank you” and find another market. I’ll have to check my notes – yes, I keep notes on where to send things next.
I have a picture book with an agent. I’ll give that one a few more weeks since she was at the SCBWI conference in LA.
Schoolwide has 8 or 9 more pieces that appeared in Young Equestrian. This deal with Schoolwide has been a real lesson in (1) not selling all rights and (2) getting pieces back out there as reprints.
And I just sent a pitch for 15 activities to my Education.com editor, but I’ll tell you more about that tomorrow.
–SueBE
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