Author Guest Post: Finding Your Voice In Kidlit Publishing
As she prepares for the release of her first novel, I Can Make This Promise, author Christine Day reflects on the hurdles, realizations, and soul-searching that led her to this moment. Five years ago, I received my first email from a literary agent. It was a novel moment, opening my inbox and seeing her message there, after weeks of form rejections and unimpressed silences. I had learned about this agent through the Acknowledgments section of a recent New York Times bestseller, a YA novel with a beautiful—yet somewhat lonely-looking—blonde girl on its cover, the first installment in a trilogy. I …