What gets an kidlit art postcard tossed IMMEDIATELY? Advice from Victoria Jamieson

Post by Debbie Ridpath Ohi

I recently joined Pixel Shavings, a small group of children's illustrators and writers, and we're about to do out a postcard mailing. I've never done a mailing before so I'm excited and curious about the process.

As I started doing some research, I came across a wonderful post by Victoria Jamieson in the #kidlitart archives about what made her immediately discard artist postcards when she worked for children's book publishers. Her reasons for immediate rejection were basically:

1) too editorial

2) too mass market

3) too sci-fi

4) too weird

5) not telling a narrative story

Read Victoria's full post here: Get 'er done.

Comments

[Eliza Wheeler]

Thanks for sharing this post Debbie. I'm also going to be putting together mailings soon, so it's really helpful to hear what stands out. I look forward to following Pixel Shavings. Here's to getting noticed!

[Victoria Jamieson]

Thanks for highlighting my post, Debbie- I'm glad you found it helpful! :)

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