I signed with an agent!
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Hey guys, I've been waiting until I had the signed contract in hand to say anything, so I'm very pleased to announced that I am now officially represented by Andrea Brown Literary Agency with Jennifer March Soloway!
She's a new agent, though she has worked for the agency for 3 years, and has been amazing to work! I submitted my recent book dummy to Andrea Brown alongside 2 other agencies, and am so glad that they wrote me back. The plan so far is to take the book out to editors next month.
To make the book dummy I watched (and re-watched) Will and Jake's course on illustrating children's books, have been active in the SVS forums, attended a SCBWI conference (where I met with some fellow SVS classmates) and did a class with Giuseppe Castellano an art director at Penguin. I've submitted to and been turned down by Andrea Brown Lit twice in the past, so third time's a charm. Thank you all for the support and community I've found here!
Nat Iwata
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Congratulations!!!! So happy for you!!!! Great achievement and great to know about your path with this. You are responsible for my decision to attend SCBWI in February...so good to know it may be well worth the expense and work!
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@smceccarelli I'm so glad you'll be attending a conference and I hope you find it as valuable as I did. I'll keep you posted, this community has been THE driving force behind me pursuing children's books illustration.
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Congratulations!
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Congratulations glad to see your hard work pay off.
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Congrats!!! ( ^ - ^ )
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@natiwata I am so happy for you Nat! Very well deserved and just proud of you and all of your hard work. Awesome news!!!
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@natiwata Congratulations! That is fantastic news, very pleased for you and hope this leads to yet better things!
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Congrats!
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Congratulations! Good to see people on here achieving their goals.
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Awesome
Must feel amazing to see your plans take flight,great encouragement for others on svs....wish u well. -
@natiwata Congratulations, that's really awesome!!
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Congratulations they're a great agency!
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Awesome! Congratulations and good luck with your book dummy.
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@natiwata This is so great Nat! Really looking forward to buying your books:)
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Wow, that's great! Congratulations
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Thanks everyone!!!
Nat Iwata
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Whoot whoot!!!!! Congratulations you deserve it. Proof hard work and determination pays off!!!! So happy for you!
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@natiwata HUGE Congrats, Nat!! Your work is soooo good! I'm not surprised you landed them and it sounds like you took all the right steps to get noticed. We are agency mates!! Andrea Brown Lit is awesome! So well deserved. Can't wait to see your book!
Happy Creating
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@Charlie-Eve-Ryan Thanks! I was on their site the other day and saw your work and was like "hey I know that artist!"
How has it been so far? Are they representing a specific book for you, getting you illustration work or both?
Nat Iwata
www.iwataillustration.com
