Workshop your your manuscript's elevator pitch live with fellow authors and professional editor Erin Alladin

Manuscript format is the standardized way authors are expected to present the text of their book for submission. Some agents and publishers will give very specific instructions about how they’d lik…

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Workshop your your manuscript's elevator pitch live with fellow authors and professional editor Erin Alladin

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Get feedback on your comp titles from fellow authors and from publishing professional Erin Alladin. Get comp suggestions and research tips.

Get feedback on your comp titles from fellow authors and from publishing professional Erin Alladin. Get comp suggestions and research tips.

Drawing back the curtain on the world of book publishing. Click to read Pen & Flourish with Erin Alladin, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

The “hook” in your book pitch is the line or two of text that captures attention, declares what’s unique about your book, and tells an agent or editor if your manuscript is something their audience…

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Français November 4, 2026 I READ CANADIAN DAY I Read Canadian Day is a national celebration of Canadian books for young people, with

Canoes, speedboats, and more sail into this Big, Little Concepts exploration of boats, colors, and time from the award-winning author of Shape Up, Construction Trucks!

Early chapter books are 4,000- to 15,000-word short illustrated novels written for newly independent readers aged about 6–9. They’re most often published as series. In complexity, the category sits…

Spring is tiptoeing in and we want to set you up for the smoothest garden year ever. This week we’re recording live on location in Erin’s garden and examining what tasks she has already…

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Your voice matters, and together we can help protect the freedom to read.

It’s very normal for a contract signed in one year to project a publication date three years down the road. Why does it take so long? Let’s go through a scenario for a full-colour nonfiction book.…

Having a distinct voice gives a book personality, making it stand out in readers’ memories—and in publishers’ inboxes. If you have trouble injecting that personality into your work, read on. We’re …