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Childrens publishers accepting unsolicited manuscripts. Mar 25, 2015 however, neither of these options are available to selfpublishing authors and the higher percopy costs of print on demand can make it difficult to price your book competitively. Childrens publishing empowers parents and guardians with advice on early childhood to young adulthood, as well as provides creative writing and illustration techniques designed to connect with children and teens. However, whilst a children s book might seem more straight forward than a 80,000 word novel, actually there can be more work to do. In 2004, just us books published my first book, neate. Writing for magazines can teach you a lot, but it is different in some ways from book writing. Neate publishing, winchester, hampshire, united kingdom is just one of over 20,000 publishing company profiles in our database. It takes a lot of work and patience, but it s a lot of fun, too.
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