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From: angelica
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 12:30:49 -0800
Dear all, My publisher, Lerner, acquires and selects photos and illustrations for my biographies for children (illustrations because my subjects are authors who write children's books). I am grateful to Lerner for a good job on this. To help them, I submit photocopies of photos and illustrations I find while writing the book. This is not required; I just do it. They use some of these, supply others (they have stock photos on file, acquire other photos of places or people, and for Robert Louis Stevenson, they surprised me with a family photo that I had never seen), and produce maps. The editor has the final say over what illustrations are used, but sometimes a nice editor lets me have input to change a photo or two. I always write it into my contract that I will get to write the captions for these photos, illustrations, and maps. Since my first draft is always too long, I am able to use some of the outtakes in the captions. Some authors who write non-fiction have control over their illustrations and captions and others don't. It will be interesting to see if the committee addresses this issue of illustrations.
Angelica Carpenter
Received on Thu 15 Mar 2001 02:30:49 PM CST
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 12:30:49 -0800
Dear all, My publisher, Lerner, acquires and selects photos and illustrations for my biographies for children (illustrations because my subjects are authors who write children's books). I am grateful to Lerner for a good job on this. To help them, I submit photocopies of photos and illustrations I find while writing the book. This is not required; I just do it. They use some of these, supply others (they have stock photos on file, acquire other photos of places or people, and for Robert Louis Stevenson, they surprised me with a family photo that I had never seen), and produce maps. The editor has the final say over what illustrations are used, but sometimes a nice editor lets me have input to change a photo or two. I always write it into my contract that I will get to write the captions for these photos, illustrations, and maps. Since my first draft is always too long, I am able to use some of the outtakes in the captions. Some authors who write non-fiction have control over their illustrations and captions and others don't. It will be interesting to see if the committee addresses this issue of illustrations.
Angelica Carpenter
Received on Thu 15 Mar 2001 02:30:49 PM CST
