I came across this bit of advice recently and felt like it needed to be passed along:
There’s certainly serendipity involved in getting published. But it’s the sort of serendipity you have a hand in making happen.
You write, you revise, you research, you attend critique meetings, you write and revise some more, you persistently submit your work to publishers.
And one day, a certain editor finds something on her desk she didn’t know she was looking for. And you sent it. And she loves it. And she publishes it.
– quote by Alice Pope,
from the 2005 introduction to the Children’s Writers & Illustrators Market
