Product Overview
Saturday 28 February 2.30 - 4.30pm Queensland Time.
Wombat Books receives submissions from over 400 authors each time we open for picture books. But much less for early reader and junior fiction where there is less competition.
In this two hour session, publisher, Rochelle Stephens, will workshop how to convert a picture book idea into a junior or early fiction book where there is more opportunity and less competition in a completely saturated picture book market.
This session will be include the following aspects:
- How to know the audience of the manuscript you are writing. This will cover considerations like how commercial your book is, is it educational as well or instead etc, as we well as the age group and best format for a manuscript you are working on.
- A comparison between picture books and early readers
- How the pitch is different
- The importance of point of view in the reading experience of picture books through to junior fiction.
- How to develop your characters and story if changing a picture book text to a early/junior fiction.
- Some tips on how to make that decision. If you have the wrong format how to swap it.
- Some discussion from Rochelle, in her publishing role, as to why you might like to expand into early reader/junior fiction books.
This workshop will allow for quite a few questions and discussion and is designed for you to work on a project as we go. This is not relevant to submissions and purely a workshop. There will be an opportunity to go through a coaching process via Book Whispers after this event if interested, but no obligation. There is no obligation to submit to Wombat either.
Extra to this session will be information about the Wombat publishing process though this is unrelated to submission.
· The submission process for early readers and junior fiction at Wombat Books
· What we will be looking for in 2026.
The session will go for an 2 hours and will not be recorded. Limited questions will be answered at the end from the chat function. There are a couple of activities during the workshop that you can ask questions while you do. We won't finish the session without allowing for plenty of questions.
Cost is $75.00 and bookings will close 2 days prior to the event. A zoom link will be sent the day before.
Concession or student? Use code 10DISC to receive a discount.
