Check out this hilarious (and somewhat awkward) roundup of stories from children's book editors on the most inappropriate places and times they received a pitch...
Children’s Editors on the Worst Places They Were Ever Pitched
During a root canal? At a funeral? Being stopped at security in an airport (when the editor was late to their flight)? Those all really happened.
Meeting an editor in real life and wanting to pitch them does not mean you should. Empathy, people. Imagine if YOU were a children's book editor. Would you really want to be pitched while you were in the middle of labor? (And, by the way, if you do pitch an editor at a terrible time for them, you're not actually helping the chances of your work being seen in a good light.)
Thanks to Diane Roback at Publishers Weekly for pulling these together - and to the gracious editors who were able to look back with a sense of humor!
Illustrate, Translate, Write – and appropriately pitch on!
Lee
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