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By Candy Gourlay
Your intrepid Notes from the Slushpile reporter managed to get herself invited to speak at the Asian Festival of Children’s Content – which was a combination of children’s literary festival, book fair, and a SCBWI Conference. This is the first of hopefully several exhausted ... er ... exhaustive reports. With many thanks to the amazing organizers of an amazing Festival – and
Bonnier's new publishing initiative, headed by former Bloomsbury Group editor-in-chief Sarah Odedina, will be called Hot Key Books, and aims to have its first books published in time for the Christmas market.
Odedina, who is already acquiring titles, expects to have a full publishing team of 12 to 14 staff in place by January. She is currently recruiting for key positions including a publisher, sales and marketing director and editorial director for print and digital publishing.
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I find it extremely amusing that both have overseen two of the biggest series in YA, yet they overlooked two other extremely popular books.
I was really shocked to hear Sarah say she thought The Book Thief was boring ... but it only goes to show that reading is a personal thing.
Brilliant brilliant post - can't tell you how much this cheered me up x
My takeaway though is that the tough parameters of the children's book market means authors have to do their growing off-page before going to market.
Interesting post. Off to write a best seller now. Easy!
Interesting post really enjoyed reading this. Thanks
Hi Candy, sounds like a great trip. I saw Sarah Odedina recently at a childrens book circle event and was also very impressed by her and am rather excited about Hot Keys submission policy! Just need the perfect book now....
5,000 is a best seller? Really? Really?<br /><br />I couldn't read The Book Thief. Have tried and failed several times. Have never got as far as page three. I feel utterly repelled by the concept and execution..err..on the basis of those pages. And have never got further than two words of Wimpy Kid on the basis of the font.
Great post, Candy. Hot Key Books is doing an event in June at the Prof Series. It would be great to listen to them in person.<br /><br />Also 5000 in 6 months - might sound small, guess it is a big number if you don't have the same number of libraries, bookshops and of course as you said book reviewers talking about the book. <br /><br />I miss Singapore. I haven't gone back since 2007. I
Fascinating. Almost as good as having been there! Thank you. (I was underwhelmed by 'The Book Thief' too. I rather like the Wimpy Kids I've read though...and love watching my children devour them, over and over and over again. Hey ho.)
Great feedback from Singapore. Yeah five thousand books in the UK sound right to me and that's with support from your publisher. It's a darn tough world out there. PS Always best to start 'The Book Thief' with the second chapter I find. Great that you got invited to this event Candy. One question. Did you get to see a Singapore bookshop and do they buy UK YA? Just curious.
Singapore is really amazingly multinational - there are several bookstores, largely English language books and YA is BIG. whether your book gets there depends on whether your publisher distributes to that market I guess. My book is imported into Asian English language markets by Random House. The bookseller at the Festival was Bookaburra and their stall was well stocked with both British and US
I loved the Book Thief - give it a chance. Such an unusual book. I liked the unexpected writing.
Thanks, Chitra - what subject did you write about? Oh! And they're taking a page from the British Isles - they were holding book launches through the day!
Heh heh - maybe I should ring Oprah and ask her if I can be on her show.
Hot Key really is an exciting new house in the market. But yes, be sure you get the book right. I know people say you can resubmit but I really think you only get one shot with each manuscript.
Very interesting that Alvina was turned off by the fact that Jeff Kinney posted it online. After Wimpy Kid's success, publishers might not be so quick to dismiss authors who do that.
Absolutely brilliant post, Candy. Have read it through three times to make sure I haven't missed any points. <br />Thanks for the info on <br />super-leads, especially the book mark hint<br />author-driven books that HAVE to be written<br />and even more confirmation that it really is so subjective.<br />But - what did they mean by embargoes in the HP plan?<br />And - where are you going next
Hi Candy, like you amazed that Sarah O found the book thief boring but very heartened by that. Yet another reminder that just because some people don't like your stuff, doesn't mean it's rubbish.<br />Thank you for this post, feel much better!
The lengths you'll go to for 'Notes', Candy - thankyou! Great, great post and like Maureen, i've reread to be sure of soaking up all the goodness. <br />I love Wimpy Kid and have not finished Book Thief.
I meant - what did you TALK about at the festival (I had such a great time hanging out with Filipinos at the AFCC that my brain recalibrated)
Oh don't you remember - they had an embargo on the book so people who already had advance copies couldn't review, blog, write, talk about it until a certain date. And then I seem to remember a warehouse by mistake left some copies in a field or something like that!
I always tell kids at schools that it's okay not to like one book because reading is so personal you will most likely love something that someone else doesn't like. I probably say that to make myself feel better about it.
I would go to the ends of the earth for NOtes, Addy. Anyone holding a children's book conference in the Carribean, just say the word and I'll be there!
I think the <b>author led concept</b> is very important to anyone aspiring to break into publishing. Ask yourself: what book could you write that ONLY YOU would write?
I was so surprised to hear that the world of Wimpy Kid was a game that was freely available online to millions of kids -- well before it was ever a book. Talk about the freemium model!<br /><br />Thanks for the round up Candy. We're all so proud of the great reviews Sarah is getting from the conference (and her spot on TV!). <br /><br />Tiny correction: Bonnier is a Swedish company, not
Ooops, sorry Sara - I KNEW that!!! Can I plead that I was writing this at high altitude somewhere over Kazakhstan?
... and then the pilot of the plane will post a comment saying, we never flew over Kazakhstan!
Just found a Singaporean TV interview with Sarah Odedina talking in detail about bestsellers. Excellent stuff so I added it to my blog post. Go look.
OMG indeed, Candy!!! Can't believe Twilight was perceived to be an award-winner-- the book that set back the women's movement by about 100 years!!! Congratulations, my friend. I love A Tall Story -- now there's an award-winner! LTM