Submission Savvy
How to Craft the Perfect Query
You've finished your manuscript and now you need to find an agent or publishing house. Emma Walton Hamilton demystifies the process of research, offers tips for drafting that all important query letter, and gives you the courage to hit the send button.
This workshop from Picture Book Summit 2016 contains a 45-minute video chock full of tips for making your next submission sing! It also includes a guide for formatting submissions, the slides from the presentation, and a list of resources to help you craft your next query.
Let Emma's experience as an editor help you write a query that gets noticed!
Your Instructor
Emma Walton Hamilton is a best-selling author, award-winning editor, stage and television producer, and writing coach. With her mother, actress/author Julie Andrews, Emma has co-authored over thirty children’s books, nine of which have been on the NY Times Bestseller list, including The Very Fairy Princess series. She teaches Children’s Literature for Stony Brook University’s Creative Writing MFA and is the co-host of the Julie’s Library Podcast. Emma’s first poetry collection, Door to Door, was published in fall 2022, along with a new picture book co-authored with her mother, The First Notes: The Story of Do Re Mi.