Submissions on Show #7

March 2022 UK chapter book submission

Hello, everyone. Welcome to May’s edition – a day late, I know – of Submissions on Show, the series in which I dive into all of my submissions since December 2019, and share:

• the titles (and often manuscripts) submitted

• the number of publishers submitted to

• (paraphrased) feedback from the publishers that responded

• the number of offers and rejections I received

and a ‘silence rate’ % for each submission based upon the proportion of publishers that never responded.

In case you missed them, here’s a summary of the previous posts in this series:

December 2019 UK picture book submission: 6 texts, 14 publishers, 5 rejections, 1 2-book offer, and 8 silences – a 57% silence rate.

December 2019 USA picture book submission: 4 texts, 15 publishers, 6 rejections, 0 offers, and 9 silences – a 60% silence rate.

August 2020 UK chapter book submission: 1 text, 16 publishers, 9 rejections, 0 offers, and 7 silences – a 44% silence rate

October 2020 UK picture book submission: 10 texts, 15 publishers, 9 rejection…