Agents

PBS 2025 Featured Editors
June 8, 2025 In Agents, Giveaway

Featured Editors Panel

What if hiding under that plain ol’ work-in-progress was a supercharged manuscript waiting to be uncovered? We’re going to do just that in this year’s Featured Editors Panel!

Unmasking the Perfect Manuscript:

Insider Secrets from Editors

PBS 2025 Featured Editors

How can your manuscript outshine the rest? 

Editors read hundreds of picture book submissions, but only a select few make it to acquisitions. Want to know how to land in that coveted yes pile? Join us for a no-holds-barred discussion where real editors share what makes them stop, read, and get excited about a manuscript. This editor’s panel is your opportunity to hear from the pros what makes a manuscript publishable, the biggest red flags in submissions, and how to take your picture book from “maybe” to “must-have.”

 

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PBS 2025 Featured Agents
June 7, 2025 In Agents, Giveaway

Featured Agents and Query Critiques

You need more than a superpowered picture book manuscript to get published. You need a champion of your work to get it in the right hands. But where can you find this champion? And how can you craft a query that grabs their attention?

Join us for this year’s Featured Agents Panel and find out!

Agents Assemble: Query Critiques to the Rescue

Featured Agents

Is your query strong enough to leap over the slush pile in a single bound?

Join our superhero agents—Leah Pierre of Ladderbird Agency, Lori Steel of SteelWorks Literary, and Ritu Anand of D4EO Literary—as they use their industry X-ray vision to analyze picture book queries from Summit attendees. Learn how to avoid query kryptonite and supercharge your submission strategy.

 

Let’s get to know this year’s Featured Agents:

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September 4, 2024 In Agents, Editors

Your Submission Questions Answered!

Since last week’s Mini Summit, we’ve received lots of questions about the Summit + Submissions Ticket for Picture Book Summit 2024 – Perfect 10: Going for Picture Book Gold! So, we’re here today to answer the most frequently asked questions before Early Bird pricing expires this Friday, September 6, 2024.

First, let’s introduce to this year’s Featured Agents and Editors and tell you a little bit about their panels at Picture Book Summit.

2024 Featured Agents

PBS 2024 Agent PanelAGENT PANEL – Top 10 Questions for Agents

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PBS 2024 Agent IG
June 6, 2024 In Agents, Giveaway

Top 10 Questions for Picture Book Agents

You’ve stretched your writing skills. You’ve practiced writing until your fingers felt like they were going to fall off. You’ve trained under expert coaches. You’re ready to jump the next hurdle: submitting to agents.

So, what will lead your manuscript from the slush pile starting block to the top spot on the podium? We ask 3 experienced picture book agent that question and more in…

Top 10 Questions for Agents: Featured Agent Panel

PBS 2024 Agent Panel

Get ready to hurdle over the competition in your submissions! Charlotte Wenger of Prospect Agency, Jazmia K. Young of Curtis Brown, and Jennifer Rofé of Andrea Brown Literary come together in this one-hour pre-recorded panel to give expert advice to apply to your submissions immediately. Hosted by Emma Walton Hamilton.

 

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August 5, 2023 In Agents, Editors

Your Submission Questions Answered!

Since last week’s Mini Summit, we’ve received lots of questions about the Summit + Submissions Ticket for Picture Book Summit 2023 – Picture Books That Sing! So, we’re here today to answer the most frequently asked questions before Early Bird pricing expires this Tuesday, August 8, 2023.

First, let’s introduce to this year’s Featured Agents and Editors and tell you a little bit about their panels at Picture Book Summit.

2023 Featured Agents

Submission That Sing: Agent Panel

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May 17, 2023 In Agents, Speakers

Submissions That Sing: Agents Panel

You’ve polished your manuscript until it shines like the top of the Chrysler Building! Now, how do you craft a submission that is equally eye-catching?
Our 2023 Featured Agent panel is here to answer that very question. We’ll discover what grabs their attention, what sends a submission straight to the trash bin, and what they’re looking for in submissions now. Join us for…

Submissions That Sing: Featured Agent Panel

How do you compose a submission package that catches an agent’s eye? How do agents conduct relationships between editors and creators that lead to the perfect symphony that is a picture book? Agents Emily S. Keyes, Lane Clark, and Saba Sulaiman come together in this one-hour pre-recorded panel to give you expert advice to apply to your submissions right away.

 

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