1. What is your submission policy?
2. How can I contact you to purchase books or enquire about rights?
3. How do I request a catalog?

1.         What is your submission policy?

Bloomsbury Children’s Books and Walker Books for Young Readers does not respond to unsolicited manuscripts or art submissions. Please include a telephone AND email address where we may contact you if we are interested in your work. Do NOT send a self-addressed stamped envelope.

We regret the inconvenience, but unfortunately, we are too understaffed to maintain a correspondence with prospective authors. We will continue to accept unsolicited manuscripts because we believe in the policy, but we can contact you ONLY if we are interested in acquiring your work.

If you haven’t heard from us within 6 months of the submission of your manuscript, you may assume that the manuscript wasn’t right for the imprint and is considered rejected.

We welcome picture book manuscripts and queries for longer works, whether fiction or nonfiction. We publish picture books, chapter books, easy readers, middle grade and YA novels, fiction, fantasy and some nonfiction.

There is no need to send art with a picture book manuscript—likely we wouldn’t use it. Artists should submit art samples separately to the attention of the Art Department. We do not return art samples. Please do not send us original art!

All submissions are considered on an individual basis. Please note that we do accept simultaneous submissions but please be courteous and inform us if another house has made an offer on your work.

 

DO NOT SEND ORIGINALS OR YOUR ONLY COPY OF ANYTHING.

 

• We are not liable for artwork or manuscript submissions.
• Do not send a SASE, as we are no longer responding to submissions.
• Please address all submissions to the attention of Manuscript Submissions.
• Please make sure that everything is stapled, paper clipped, or rubber-banded together.
• We do not accept e-mail or CD-ROM submissions.
• Be sure your work is appropriate for us.
• Familiarize yourself with our list by going to bookstores or libraries.

We encourage you to look for general information at the following:
Children's Writer's Market
Information from the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI)
The Literary Market Place Directory
Your local bookstore

 

Thank you for your consideration, and good luck!

 

 

2.         How can I contact you to purchase books or enquire about rights?

 

CONTACT US

 

Editorial and Marketing office:

Bloomsbury and Walker Books for Young Readers

175 Fifth Avenue

New York, NY 10010

Phone: 646-307-5151

Fax: 212-780-0115

bloomsbury.kids@bloomsburyusa.com

children.publicity@bloomsburyusa.com

Macmillan Publishing is distributing Bloomsbury and Walker Books for Young Readers.

Address for RETAIL and WHOLESALE orders:

Macmillan Distribution Center
16365 James Madison Highway
Gordonsville, VA 22942-8501
Phone: (888) 330-8477
Fax: (800) 672-2054
EDI Orders: (540) 672-7711
San#: 6315011

SPECIALTY RETAIL/WHOLESALE, MAIL ORDER, CORPORATE PREMIUM QUERIES:

Special Markets Department
175 Fifth Avenue

New York, NY 10010
Phone: (800) 221-7945 x 5445
Fax: (212) 598-9173

SUBSIDIARY RIGHTS and PERMISSIONS QUERIES:

Rebecca Mancini
BLOOMSBURY and WALKER BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS
175 Fifth Ave.
New York, NY 10010 USA
T: (646) 438-6062 F: (212) 727-0984
rebecca.mancini@bloomsburyusa.com

3.        How do I request a catalog?

 

If you would like a catalog, please send a 9 x 12 envelope with adequate postage in a package marked “Catalog Request” prominently on the outside to the address below, and we will be happy to mail one to you as long as supplies last.

 

BLOOMSBURY and WALKER BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS
175 Fifth Ave.
New York, NY 10010 USA