Get detailed editorial advice on your children’s picture book
From our top, professional editors
What’s involved?
A complete editorial service for writers of children’s picture books. Our experienced picture book editors will prepare an in-depth editorial report on your manuscript.
What do you get?
You’ll get an honest assessment of whether your work is strong enough for publication from our experienced picture book editors. They’ll give you detailed feedback on your picture book including suggestions and techniques to help you address any problems raised. Plus, you can get in touch with them directly to ask any follow-up questions you may have after your report.
Why use us?
Professional editorial advice remains the gold-standard way to improve your children’s picture book, and our editors are amongst the best in the industry.
We’ve been doing what we do for over twelve years now, so we really do know what we’re doing. Put simply, we get writers like you published. View success stories.
Plus, if you’re a member of Jericho Writers, you’re entitled to a discount. Find out more or join us.
- Opportunity to ask questions: Yes. After you’ve received your manuscript, you’ll get chance to pose any questions about your critique, to your editor.
- Help with agent submissions: Yes – no added cost. See info below.
- Turnaround time: Usually 3-4 weeks.
- Genres accepted: Childrens picture books.
- Manuscript length: Under 3,000 words.
- Work with writers from: Around the world.
- Cost: $275.00
- Editors: View list.
Detailed information
Writing children’s picture books is wonderful, but it’s also a hard thing to do well. If you’re serious about getting published, send your picture book to us (with or without pictures), and we’ll help. Tell us what the book is about, who it’s for, and any concerns you have with it. We’ll match it to one of our experienced picture book editors and share your concerns with them, then they’ll put together a comprehensive editorial report for you.
Your report will address the style, structure and pacing of your manuscript and will include thoughts on plot and character development. Your editor will tell you in detail what’s working, what’s not working, and what you need to do to get a publishing deal, or to make it as a self-published author.
If your picture book is great, and we mean really great, we will do what we can to make sure your work gets in front of a children’s agent, or a publisher.
Our editors act as our talent scouts; if they’re seriously impressed with your work they’ll let us know and we’ll use our contacts to get your manuscript the attention it deserves. There’s no cost for this – if our editors think your work is good enough to get an agent and be published, we want to help make that happen.
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Guarantee
We’re confident that we’re the best at we what we do. That’s why we offer a guarantee for all editorial work we undertake. We promise:
- To give you a thorough, in-depth report.
- To use an expert editor with authority in your genre.
- To consider the market for your manuscript.
- To be honest and constructive.
- To respect your copyright.
- To respond honestly and in good faith in case of problems.
- To pitch your work to agents if, in our view, it is strong enough to be marketed.
- To advise you honestly, always.
We’ve had thousands of satisfied customers – and helped countless writers like you get agented and published. Join them!
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