This annual handbook for Writing Success by Writer’s Digest is filled with timely information particularly for children’s writers.

Jane Friedman in her article “2015 The Year in Review” points out the juvenile market stayed strong during the year. She also talks about other key developments in the market place.

In “Pitch Perfect” Zachary Petit talks about aiming and shaping queries. He gives you some game rules and breaks down a query into six components to help you stand out from the pack.

My favorite article “Top 10 Publishing Insiders (and Outsiders) to Follow Online” is once again written by Jan Friedman.  Through reading her article, I discovered Kristen McLean’s free database WriterCube. It contains over 20,000 vetted listings of book marketing resources for writers.  I also learned about Victoria Strauss’s website Writer Beware.

Hannah Haney in her article “The Top 100 Markets for Book and Magazine Writers” has picked out 50 book publishers who accept simultaneous submissions, are open to working with new authors (with our without agents), and pay advances.  Nine of them publish books for children.  She has also picked out fifty magazines that are currently open for submissions, pay a fair rate, and 50% of their content comes from freelance writers.  Three of the magazines are published for children.

Once again, the editors at Writer’s Digest have hit a home run with the bases loaded.