Podcast – Brenda Bowen

In today’s episode, we feature literary agent Brenda Bowen and snippets from her appearance at Picture Book Summit.

As an agent at Greenberger Associates, Brenda represents authors and illustrators who are national and international bestsellers, as well as winners of Newbery and Caldecott awards. Before becoming a literary agent in the summer of 2009, Brenda held a variety of positions during her 25-plus years in children’s publishing. She has been editorial director of Henry Holt & Books for Young Readers, Scholastic Press, Disney/Hyperion, and Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing.

In Brenda Bowen’s presentation, she spoke with her author hat on about how she finds and develops ideas and how, sometimes, necessity can be the mother of invention. She also touches on the key components that agents look for in a successful query letter.

Don’t miss getting the inside scoop from this successful author and literary agent.

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Can you convey your book’s unique qualities to an agent? And after you’re published, how will your book get the attention it deserves? Brenda Bowen guides you through the author/agent relationship and the process of selling and marketing your purposeful picture book. For more insight from Brenda including finding and developing ideas and then pitching and selling those ideas, check out Brenda’s full “The Agent’s Perspective” presentation on the Picture Book Summit Teachable site HERE.