Archive - Tales from the Trenches of SEEN in Publishing

Doing the Right Thing

…isn’t always easy as demonstrated by this powerful testimony from an illustrator who wishes to stay anonymous out of fear for the repercussions for her…

Jun 28 •

SEEN in Publishing

How my agent tried to keep me silent

Jun 26 •

SEEN in Publishing

Jun 26 •

SEEN in Publishing

When friends choose ideology...

I write crime fiction but for many years I wrote children's and YA books, and for ten of those years I belonged to a very close-knit online writers…

Jun 18 •

SEEN in Publishing

A Publisher's Tale...

As a publisher, an editor and an author, I have first-hand experience of attempts to censor work that goes against the grain of the current gender…

Jun 18 •

SEEN in Publishing

I'm an award-winning children's poet (formerly a trained special needs teacher) who had an established and well-respected career in children's…

Jun 18 •

SEEN in Publishing

I’ve worked in publishing for over thirty years and have never experienced anything like the toxicity and hostility that I have seen over the last few…

Jun 18 •

SEEN in Publishing

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