Tuesday 1 October 2019

Bath Children's Literature Festival 2019 - Liz Cross and Julia Green

Julia Green and Liz Cross
My editor & Me: Liz Cross and Julia Green

Part of the Bath Children's Literature Festival 2019 is geared towards creative writing for adults, and this evening I attended a talk on the editorial process with editor Liz Cross and author Julia Green.

Their relationship has developed over several books, to the point that Julia now sends Liz the draft of her latest manuscript before she sends it to her agent. Liz also encourages Julia not to be too gentle in her plotting, but to push things further.

We also got to see a cover design sheet for one of Julia's books (which lists keywords or phrases from the book to generate ideas for a cover) and were shown the various concepts for the cover, which were narrowed down and tweaked until the publishers were satisfied with the final image.



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