A New Project
I have had one of my hare-brained ideas...
One of the things I've always wanted to do is write the text for illustrated kids' books. Dr Seuss is pretty much my favourite writer ever, so it may well be in that kind of vein, although it may not be.
I currently have a list of Writing I Might Make Money From (I'll publish it here at some point), and Picture Books For Kids was on that list. But everyone I know in the industry says the picture-book market is pretty much impossible to get into, so I've given up on the idea of getting published or making any money out of it, but I'm still so keen on doing it, and already have some books written and waiting to be edited, and it seems such a shame for them to go to waste...
So I'm putting a call out for illustrators I know, and my idea is this: To collaborate with an illustrator and self-publish something. Now, I need to say upfront that it's PRETTY UNLIKELY we'd make much, if any, money out of it. We'd be doing it for fun. But if nothing else it will be something we can put in our portfolios, and it's good practice. And fun!
If you are an illustrator and you're interested, or you know anyone who might be, contact me and I'll send you / them some text and you / they could maybe sketch one rough sample, and we'll see whether we like the result and think it's worth proceeding.
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One of the things I've always wanted to do is write the text for illustrated kids' books. Dr Seuss is pretty much my favourite writer ever, so it may well be in that kind of vein, although it may not be.
I currently have a list of Writing I Might Make Money From (I'll publish it here at some point), and Picture Books For Kids was on that list. But everyone I know in the industry says the picture-book market is pretty much impossible to get into, so I've given up on the idea of getting published or making any money out of it, but I'm still so keen on doing it, and already have some books written and waiting to be edited, and it seems such a shame for them to go to waste...
So I'm putting a call out for illustrators I know, and my idea is this: To collaborate with an illustrator and self-publish something. Now, I need to say upfront that it's PRETTY UNLIKELY we'd make much, if any, money out of it. We'd be doing it for fun. But if nothing else it will be something we can put in our portfolios, and it's good practice. And fun!
If you are an illustrator and you're interested, or you know anyone who might be, contact me and I'll send you / them some text and you / they could maybe sketch one rough sample, and we'll see whether we like the result and think it's worth proceeding.
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