Editors and agents often have specific topics or genre they are currently looking for. We’ll post as many editor’s and agent’s wish lists as we can to help you fine-tune your strategy on landing that next contract.
CHRISTIAN MARKET
Posted May 12, 2009
Editor: Sandy Brooks
E-mail: cwfi@aol.com
Publisher’s Name: Christian Writers Fellowship International
Market: Christian Writers Newsletter
Websites: Cross and Quill
My Wish List: Sandy posts on the Cross and Quill website that she has an immediate need for articles for:
Tots, Teens, & InBetweens
Fabulous Fiction
Our Evolving Industry
Worthy of Our Hire
Posted May 13, 2008
Editor: Dwain Esmond
E-mail: insight@rhpa.org
Publisher’s Name: Review and Herald Publishing Association
Market: Christian/Seventh-day Adventist
Web sites:
Insight
Review and Herald
Submission Guidelines: Writers’ Guidelines
My Wish List:
We don’t follow a topic list, nor have we created one. We need Christian teens’ strong stories/testimonies about how God is working in their lives. We especially need stories/testimonies written by guys. We don’t need fiction, games, puzzles, parables, or sermons.
-Posted April 6, 2008
Editor: Lin Johnson
E-mail: ljohnson@wordprocommunication.com
Publisher’s Name: The Christian Communicator
Web site: American Christian Writers
Submission Guidelines: Submission Guidelines
My Wish List:
Profiles of editors at Christian publishing houses, articles related to speaking, articles on how to write different genres (Query first.)
-Posted April 6, 2008
Editor: Lin Johnson
E-mail: ljohnson@eclalibraries.org
Publisher’’s Name: Church Libraries
Web site: ECLAlibraries.org
Submission Guidelines: Writer’s Guidelines
My Wish List:
Profiles of church libraries, roundups of best dozen books on a topic (Query first.)
-Posted April 4, 2008
Editor: Sheila Seifert
E-mail: FOYC Submission and write “ATTN: Sheila Seifert” in the subject line
Publisher: Focus on the Family Parenting Newsletters
Submission Guidelines: Writer’s Guidelines
Website: Focus On Your Child
My Wish List:
I’d love to receive true-life stories about something funny or embarrassing (or it could be tear-jerking, dramatic) a Christian celebrity’s child or teen did and how the Christian celebrity actively parented him/her or them through the moment in a way that shows training a child versus dictating to him/her (building relatioinship and not just enforcing rules). It would need to be written as a narrative, be under 400 words, have the permission of the Christian celebrity included (an e-mail is fine), and include a sidebar checklist as to how the average parent could face the same situation. For this type of an article, I would offer first, nonexclusive rights and pay $125 on acceptance.
GENERAL MARKET
-Posted April 4, 2008
Editor: Sharon Coatney
E-mail: scoatney@lu.com
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited and Teacher Ideas Press
Web site: Libraries Unlimited
Submission Guidelines: Manuscript Proposal Guidelines
My Wish List:
1. Books about the uses of story in education, motivation, visualization, problem solving, etc.
2. Instructional uses of technology and web 2.0 in the classroom and library media center
3. Educational partnerships: parents/teachers; libraries–school and public; community and school assessment for learning
4. Readers Theatre for secondary level (curricular connected)
