The Book Publishing Association of NZ do not accept submissions, but seem to be a useful group.
Allen and Unwin although they are not accepting submissions for children's and YA books this year.
HarperCollins, looks promising, found via them, this authors advice type place.
Mallinson Rendel, whose website is beautifully laid out and has lots of cool Hairy MaClairy stuff.
Holy crap. I just noticed that they say "Please use single quotation marks for all speech," is this true of all writing? If so, I have editing to do....eurgh.
Penguin much prefer manuscripts to come from a literary agent. Hum. But they helpfully give contact details for a bunch of them.
Random House have a word doc of guidelines, but don't want fantasy and sci fi.
Scholastic have a very thorough and awesome submission guide download with heaps of information about professional manuscript assessors.
Victoria University Press is unlikely to be interested in Kiki, but perhaps I can consider them for my adult fiction.
Finally here's an awesome page of guidelines and tips from the New Zealand Authors and Writers Society very useful looking indeed.
So, my plan for Kiki now that I've got the manuscript back is to get Lee to read the printed up copy I received back from Matt and Natalya, and for him to find any typos, grammar errors they missed (or didn't have a pen for) and then do my final rewrite. After that I'm gonna get submitting to some of the above.
Wish me luck!
Posted by jenni at May 10, 2008 10:18 AM