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Getting Published: Navigating the Children's Book Market

ART-40636

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.

This course is open only 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.

Instructions are provided in the 'PORTFOLIO SUBMISSION GUIDELINES' link below.  Portfolios are reviewed to assess students' work.  Eligible students will be notified and given enrollment instructions for this closed course via email.

PORTFOLIO SUBMISSION DEADLINE:  Portfolios are accepted starting in the Fall Quarter and are due by December 9, 2024.

Please read through the 'PORTFOLIO SUBMISSION GUIDELINES' thoroughly (click link):

Portfolio Submission Guidelines


Quarter Offered:  Winter Quarter (course dates are posted in late October each year)
Prerequisite:  Successful completion of ALL Required and Elective courses in the Children's Book Illustration or Children's Book Writing certificate program.
Note:  Only students who have submitted a portfolio by the deadline are able to enroll. Registration will be denied if a portfolio was not received.

Course Information

Online
3.00 units
$450.00

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This course applies to these programs

Children’s Book Illustration Children’s Book Writing

Course sessions

Closed

Section ID:

186303

Class type:

Online Asynchronous.

This course is entirely web-based and to be completed asynchronously between the published course start and end dates. Synchronous attendance is NOT required.
You will have access to your online 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.

Textbooks:

All course materials are included unless otherwise stated.

Policies:

  • No refunds after: 1/20/2025
  • Prerequisite required

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.

Schedule:

No information available at this time.
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Instructor: Eve Porinchak

Eve Porinchak
Even Porinchak teaches Getting Published: Navigating the Children's Book Market for the Children's Book Illustration and and Children's Book Writing certificate programs. 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 story with a juvenile justice bent – launched Simon and Schuster’s new young adult true crime line SIMON TRUE in May 2017.
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