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  Interviews with the Insiders:
         
                           
               Andrea Davis Pinkney, Houghton Mifflin

            Leonard Marcus, Children's Literature Historian, Critic & Author

Wendy Lamb, Wendy Lamb Books/Random House

            Harold Underdown, ipicturebooks.com

            Steve Geck, (ex) Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Susan Hirschman, former Greenwillow Books chief

      Douglas Florian, children's poet extraordinaire

            Bonny Becker, children's author and manuscript doctor

            Author Jack Gantos, on writing the memoir

Anita Silvey, Author, Reviewer, Ex-Editor of Houghton Mifflin

      Allyn Johnston, Harcourt

Stephen Mooser, President of SCBWI

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Maybe it's the (ex) reporter in me, but I love to dig for information that might make the children's book business a bit less mysterioso.  And so, the inside scoop from editors, authors, illustrators...
About Barb Odanaka
Tips for Beginners
Tips for Beginners
Other articles by Barb Odanaka:
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Rhyme:
Avoiding the Curse of Meaningless Verse
Branding: Do Children's Authors Need A Niche?
Keeping the Child's Perspective
Rejection 101: Getting A Grip on the Gobbledygook

Is Rhyme A Crime?
The Space Between the Words:
Why Picture Book Authors Need to Let Illustrators Do Their Thing
Creative Courage: The Legacy of Linda Smith
Notes from New York, 2001 (a bit, um, odd)
Blurbs from the Best--Quips & Quotes from the 2001 SCBWI National Conference in Los Angeles, Calif.
         Note:
Most of these articles were written between 2000 to 2002, so be sure to confirm whether a particular editor is still at the same house before submitting a manuscript to him/her!
Deborah Brodie, Roaring Brook Press