How to Submit Your Book to Publishers
There is still space in this 2-hour course on Saturday, 23 October. VENUE HAS CHANGED (no longer South Library)! Please register or contact elissa@ebweissman.com for the new venue's address.
HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR CHILDREN'S BOOK TO PUBLISHERS
Do you dream of seeing your stories for children or young adults in print? This two-hour course will cover different options for publication and provide practical guidance for submitting to traditional publishers in New Zealand, Australia, and the United States. From query letters to agents to editors to contracts, you’ll learn to navigate the submission process and get your manuscript into the right hands.
About the presenters: Sarina Dickson is a writer, artist and educator based in Christchurch. She has two picture books publishing with Hachette Aotearoa NZ in 2021--The Fairies’ Night Before Christmas and A Stick and a Stone--with further titles coming in 2022 and beyond.
Elissa Brent Weissman is an award-winning author of books for 8-12-year olds, including the Nerd Camp series and The Length of a String. Her tenth novel was released in August from Penguin USA, and her debut picture book is forthcoming from Abrams in 2023.
Date: Saturday, 23 October
Time: 2:00-4:00pm
Cost: $30
More information and registration at ebweissman.com.... For questions or more information, email elissa@ebweissman.com.
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Hi everyone, I'm after free red bricks please? I'll come pick them up, no problem. Thank you 😊
Kalle
"Sports and travelling run in the family, and that's kind of what's led me to come to New Zealand."
"I grew up in a small town in Finland. My dad was involved with sports all his life, he was a shot putter, discus thrower, powerlifter, we traveled quite a bit when I was a kid. He never mentioned much of the rugby days. He just said he broke both of his shin bones playing rugby, so he said, ‘never play the sport, It's crazy.’
I started playing when I was 18. I played my first cap for the Finnish national team in 2014, we won the Finnish championship with my club. Rugby is not a big thing in Finland.
I moved here to play rugby in 2017. The club that wanted me to come over was Methven Rugby Club. They got me here and they were like, ‘what do you do for work? I’d just finished chef school in Finland. ‘We'll get you a job at Mount Hutt as a chef, you can do that while you play rugby with us.’ I said, ‘Perfect. Yeah, I'm in’.
I've always loved food. My mum was an amazing cook, and still is. When I was studying tourism I worked in some hotels in Finland, and I saw how the chef's worked. I just loved the kitchen vibe and I was like, Yeah, that’d be something I'd love to do.
I've had more of a culinary journey In New Zealand than in Finland. I started at Mount Hutt, after that I worked at The Dubliner in Methven. I worked as a senior pizza chef at Sal’s for maybe six months then worked as chef de partie at Cellar Door. At Eliza's Manor, I worked myself up to a junior sous chef. Then the opportunity came to work my first head chef job at Moon Under Water.
We're privileged to have a busy atmosphere, we can try new things and get a bit creative. There are no TV’s, just come here with your family or with your mates, play board games, to socialise.
I really want to drive the local food and ingredients through the menu. We don't mind spending more for quality ingredients as long as it's supporting New Zealand businesses. We just love to use local. And it's pub food, but I feel like it's elevated.
I play club rugby here for the Christchurch Football Club, the oldest club in New Zealand and I still play regularly for the Finnish national team, whenever they can fly me over to play."
- Kalle
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