The ABC Book competition is right around the corner and they are looking for illustrators to participate.
I really enjoyed participating last year and would recommend it.
With permission, I'm posting Rita Mills original email request:
CALL FOR ILLUSTRATORS
The ABC's Children's Picture Book Competition is on the hunt for
illustrators for their 2nd round of competition.
The 10 finalists for the 2nd competition have been selected and we are
looking for an illustrator to pair-up with each finalist's story. You can
check out the finalists at the link below........
http://www.abcbookcompetition.org/newpages/doubleplain/competition.html
The illustrators chosen will submit a piece of art for a specific title and
all the finalists teams (art & story) will be posted on the internet for an
online vote to pick the winner. The winning team of the competition will
get their books published roughly 12-18 months later.
The link below will take you to last year's collection of finalists that
participated in the internet vote. The website had over 10,000 individuals
vote in last year's competition with well over 100,000 actual hits to the site.
http://www.abcbookcompetition.org/newpages/authors/stories.html
If you are an illustrator or know someone who is an illustrator, who might
be interested in participating, please pass this information along.
To get the details, please email [email protected] with Illustrator Call in the
subject line of your email. Please do not send samples of your work yet.
We had to get this info out now because of deadlines, but the ABC's website
isn't as current as it should be. Please bear with us, as the website is in
limbo while our web designer is suffering through a computer meltdown.....Rita
Ooohh, thanks for the heads up Roz! You're helping me accomplish one of my professional goals this year! After I do this contest, I only have three more to go....well to meet my goal. :)
Posted by: Dee | June 06, 2005 at 06:56 PM