{"id":1209,"date":"2023-04-23T14:58:07","date_gmt":"2023-04-23T14:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2023-04-23T15:09:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-23T15:09:50","slug":"london-book-fair-18-20-april-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/?p=1209","title":{"rendered":"London Book Fair 18\u201320 April 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Lionel Bender writes&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I spent most of the day at the Fair on Tuesday, 18 April. It was very busy. All children\u2019s publishers of NF were upbeat and most said they were open to submissions. Some even have Submissions policies on their websites.<\/p>\n<p>It appears packager Calcium is now publishing most of what it has done before and new stuff under the name of\u00a0Children\u2019s Books, so I guess that is one place for people to target. The usual suspects were present: Arcturus, Booklife, Miles Kelly, Weldon Owen, Welbeck, Michael O\u2019Mara. And a good number of US publishers said they were open to pitches from UK authors.<\/p>\n<p>On the evening of 19 April, I did my webinar for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.writingblueprints.com\/\">www.writingblueprints.com<\/a>\u00a0in the US, <em>Writing Children\u2019s Nonfiction: A Beginner\u2019s Guide.<\/em>About 150 signed up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0520.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1212\" src=\"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0520-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0520\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0520-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0520.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<em>Photo: \u00a9 Lionel Bender<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Bender writes&#8230; I spent most of the day at the Fair on Tuesday, 18 April. It was very busy. All children\u2019s publishers of NF were upbeat and most said&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authorblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1217,"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions\/1217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}