Getting Published: Navigating the Children's Book Market

Getting Published: Navigating the Children's Book Market

Course Overview

This final, required course in the Children's Book Illustration Certificate and Children's Book Writing Certificate programs will guide you through the process of getting published, covering topics such as:

• Traditional & independent publishing options.
• Writing queries.
• How to choose professional representation (or self-management).
• Navigating contracts.
• Self-marketing techniques.
• Managing an effective online presence.

Throughout the course, you will also work on completing a portfolio of your work or a book dummy/proposal.
Open to students who have completed all other certificate requirements & electives.
 

Portfolio & Enrollment Information

Pre-approval is required before enrolling by submitting a portfolio to the Arts & Humanities Department during the quarter prior to the course start date (details are provided in the Portfolio Guidelines link below).  Portfolios are reviewed to determine course enrollment eligibility. Eligible students will be notified and given instructions to enroll in this closed course via email.

PORTFOLIO SUBMISSION DEADLINE:  Portfolios are accepted now through December 11, 2020.

Please read through the 'PORTFOLIO SUBMISSION GUIDELINES' thoroughly:

Portfolio Submission Guidelines


Quarter Offered:  Winter Quarter (course schedule posted in late October)
Course Fee:  $395
Prerequisite:  Successful completion of ALL required and elective Children's Book Illustration or Children's Book Writing certificate courses.
Recommended Prerequisite:  Illustrating Children's Books: Portfolio Development (only applies to Children's Book Illustration students)
Questions:  Contact the Arts, Humanities & Languages Department at ahl@ucsd.edu.

Course Number: ART-40636
Credit: 3.00 unit(s)
Related Certificate Programs: Children’s Book Illustration, Children’s Book Writing

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1/11/2021 - 3/15/2021

$395

Online

Closed

• SECTION ID:

  152696

• CLASS TYPE:

  Online Asynchronous.
  
  All instruction and course materials delivered and completed online between the published course start and end dates.

• INSTRUCTOR:
  

  Porinchak, Eve, An author and literary agent, Eve provides perspectives on publishing and demystifies the complexities of the business while guiding writers on their paths to publication.

  Since earning a degree in Biology/Psychology from UCLA, Eve has lived all over the planet and spent much of her time in and out of jail – as a creative writing teacher for teen inmates. An agent with Jill Corcoran Literary Agency since 2012, Eve also serves as the Training Coordinator for CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) Los Angeles, where she recruits and trains Guardians ad Litem assigned to foster youth. A former medical student, child welfare social worker, and first grade teacher, Eve writes stories featuring youth she feels have been underrepresented in children’s literature, such as those born into gang life, the abandoned, and the incarcerated who – ironically - have the most fascinating tales to tell. Her first book, One Cut - a haunting nonfiction sto...Read More

• TEXTBOOKS:

  No information available at this time.

• POLICIES:

  Early enrollment advised.
  Pre-enrollment required.
  Prerequisite required.
  Early Enrollment Discount: $370 ($395 if enrolled after 12/14/2020).
  

• NOTE:

  This is an Online Asynchronous course. All instruction and course materials delivered and completed online between the published course start and end dates. You will have access to your course on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed, if you enroll on or after the published start date. To login to your course, go to your MyExtension account, select My Courses, select this course and then click the link that appears under Online Provider.

• DATE & LOCATION:

  1/11/2021 - 3/15/2021
  extensioncanvas.ucsd.edu
  You will have access to your course materials on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.