First Books Lowdown: My Unscientific Findings on New-Author-Friendly Publishers...
Every year since I've been blogging, I've put out a call for debut authors for my First Book feature and every year I post about which publishers are publishing the debut authors who contacted me. Here's the scoop for this year (all of which are in random order because I don't like to alphabetize)...
Publishers who are publishing one of the debut books in my pool:
- Flux
- Carolrhoda
- Flashlight Press
- Scholastic
- Houghton Mifflin
- Albert Whitman
- Dutton
- Blooming Tree
- Holiday House
- Pelican
- HIP Books
- Clarion
- Bloomsbury
- Feiwel & Friends
- Candlewick
- Raven Tree Press
- Delacorte
- Capstone
Publishers who are publishing two or more of the debut books in my pool:
- HarperCollins
- Walker
- Putnam
- Random House
- Sourcebooks/Jabberwocky
- Farrar, Strauss & Giroux
- Simon & Schuster
- Sterling
Only a handful of the debut authors who contacted me said they have agents--I'm sure more do and didn't mention it--and some of those agented writers didn't get their agents until after the first book deal. I heard from plenty of unagented writers.
About half of the authors who contacted me are YA writers, the other half picture books, MG and chapter books, with PBs as the majority.
If you're among the YA authors (or even if you're not) check out Publishers Weekly's report, What Do Teens Want?, a survey of teen über readers. Lots of statistics and charts! (I tweeted a link to this yesterday and was retweeted like crazy.)
Now back to the tough/fun job of deciding who to interview.
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