As I now have clutch of books written for children, from a picture book text up to a novel for older children of 10+, I'm beginning to send off submissions. I'm finding it hard work to research suitable publishers and keep track of what I'm sending to whom. Can anyone suggest a good system?
Erika's spot on.
Excel is perfect for this sort of thing and you can set the 'freeze pane' and 'filter' functions to make the reading of it better, when checking what you've sent and to whom.
Andy Goodman
Thank you Erika, excellent suggestion. I'm very disorganised.
I have an excel spreadsheet, it was the cheapest way to do it (I found.)
The columns are titled;
Publisher
Contact name
Submit by (email/post)
Date Submitted
Response Received.
Then I fill it all in and update it as I go.
It's a good way to see who hasn't replied or who hasn't sent confirmation of receiving your work and also to keep track of things :D
I personally haven't found a better system, and for me it works.
Hope this helps
Erika Jayne.