Erin Clyburn

I am simply over the moon about WOODFEAST! 🔥🐇🌱

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How Maurice Sendak Lived With His Own Wild Things For decades, the author of “In the Night Kitchen” and “The Nutshell Library” fortified himself with art and words.

“When children love your book, it’s ‘I love your book, thank you, I want to marry you when I grow up,’” Sendak said in a talk that was printed in the Book Review in 1987. “Or it’s ‘Dear Mr. Sendak: I hate your book. Hope you die soon. Cordially.’” gift link www.nytimes.com/2024/02/01/b...

Editors are being laid off. Positions are barely opening. Creators are losing their advocates and champions in house but sure, let’s have the largest publisher’s CEO say he wants to implement AI

Just passed a headshop called World of Smoke and Vape. Whose fantasy novel is this?

Taking a deep breath & getting ready to dive into 2024: At long last, I'll be reopening to queries on Monday, 1/8! Check out my wishlist here, & visit our website (howlandliterary.com) for the text version of this MSWL & my QueryManager link. Can't wait to see your work. ✨

Dark fantasy about a vampire knight who wanders through a reborn world that is overflowing with life inside the corpses it left behind. A legend of painful self-examination, blood bags who bare their souls, and a desperate hunger for a purpose.

Sometimes a journey is a man and his coffin.

We raise 18 billion animals a year to die — and then we don’t even eat them From farm to plate, one in four animals raised on factory farms are wasted.

A new study found that one out of every four land animals raised for food in 2019 wound up in the trash. That’s 18 billion animals total, or 2.4 for every human on earth. It’s incredibly bad in the US where it’s 7.1 animals wasted per person. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

I just got an email from my library that they are offering free music lessons in their app and I am just convinced that libraries are actually SECRETLY COLLEGES

Plant a garden. Give a gofundme $5. Offer to rake neighbor's leaves. Foster a dog. I felt better when I focused on things I could control. They are small things, but they have agency. I put $10 in gas in someone's tank the other day who asked for help. Small acts mean a lot to folks who recieve them

Thrilled to announce this deal! Meg's artistic voice is unlike anything I've ever seen, & I'm over the moon that NECROLOGY has found a home with Creature, whose books I've admired for a good while! Amanda truly Gets It. This unsettling, wild, beautiful folk horror is headed your way next fall! ✨

I get to announce a book soon that's one of the best things I've ever read. When agenting is good, it's very good. 😌

In the winter a young woman's fancy lightly turns to nonstop Taskmaster reruns until daylight saving time.

This isn't the best advice, honestly, due to the fact that if you're pitching or working on something that's trendy now, that thing likely won't be a trend in 2+ years when your book comes out. I always encouraging write the book you want to write rather than writing to a trend!

Thanks, Jess!

Gotta be honest, this is my whole agent M.O. as well. 😅 I'm so here for the weirds, the mold-breakers, the unsellables.

Hi Jess! I'm Talia's friend's agent, & he just so happens to have a Jewish horror novel ready to submit. I'd love to send it your way!

I also forgot DMs are not a thing here yet. 🫠 Whoops. So, comment with questions or donations & I'll be in touch with my contact info!

If you are hesitant about anything or have questions, ask here or DM me & I'll answer them! Y'all are the reason I have hit my goals so far, and with your help my team has granted three full wishes for Make-A-Wish kids & their families! I'm hopeful to get there again. Thank you for your time! ✨

Again, my donation link is on this page, & you have to use this link for it to apply toward my team (It can't be a general donation to Make-A-Wish): secure2.wish.org/site/TR/Trai...

Turnaround time for the shorter pieces - query & synopsis critiques - will be within 1 month. Longer MS critiques & copy edits 2-3 months, hopefully quicker. It just depends on when these roll in & how many.

If you donate through my donation link (secure2.wish.org/site/TR/Trai...), simply DM me a screenshot of your donation, & I'll let you know how to submit your materials to me.

Developmental edits will be in the form of a thorough edit letter along with in-document comments, the same as the first round of developmental edits I do with my own clients.

$1,200: Full MS developmental edit up to 80,000 words
$800: Full MS copy edit up to 80,000 words
$600: Full MS proofread up to 80,000 words
(If your MS is longer than 80,000 words, DM me.)

$75: Query or synopsis critique (all ages & genres, up to 1 page, single spaced)
$150: First 20 pages novel developmental edit (double spaced)
$250: First 50 pages novel developmental edit (double spaced)

If you donate to my fundraiser between now & June, with 100% of that (tax-deductible!) donation going to fulfill kids' wishes, you can get an edit from me on your query, synopsis, &/or manuscript. My offerings are below, and they're valid for middle grade, YA, & adult fiction manuscripts.

I'm so excited to be taking on the Trailblaze Challenge once again in 2024, as a Wish Hero. I'll be raising $5,000 between now & June for Make-A-Wish, & training for two big hikes (one 26.3 miles & the other some distance longer). That's where you lovely folks come in.

For the third time, I'm taking on the Make-A-Wish Trailblaze Challenge. In my first two years, my team of two raised $15,000; I was only able to do this through the generosity of the writing community, from people who donated to me in exchange for critiques.