Once upon a time there was a talented youngster who wrote a rollicking story for the 9-13 years age group. His mother, wanting him to focus on creating more stories, researched the best local literary agent, followed the submission guidelines, and sent in a query. But those guidelines didn't cover everything and very big, very amateur mistakes were made. One glance would have been all it took, and that carefully prepared submission was returned to sender. Publishing is an unforgiving business, … [Read more...] about Children’s Books: Getting to the next level as writers and illustrators by Catherine Cavanagh