Nathan Bransford - The Forums

Please Nathan, I would like to ask you whether as an agent you would have considered representing an illustrated novel, and how you would have felt on receiving the query, or discovering illustrations as part of a "slush pile" manuscript?

I used to so enjoy books when I was younger that had the occasional picture in, and I like the same in those rare (usually older) adult books that have them - therefore I would like my novel to have them also. And working on both means I am very attached to both as part of the same work, and would feel the book is incomplete without them.

But getting published seems such a difficult road, I don't want to make it impossible.

Will it make it harder? Will my book still be considered?

Thank-you and best wishes.

skippetty wrote:Please Nathan, I would like to ask you whether as an agent you would have considered representing an illustrated novel, and how you would have felt on receiving the query, or discovering illustrations as part of a "slush pile" manuscript?

I used to so enjoy books when I was younger that had the occasional picture in, and I like the same in those rare (usually older) adult books that have them - therefore I would like my novel to have them also. And working on both means I am very attached to both as part of the same work, and would feel the book is incomplete without them.

But getting published seems such a difficult road, I don't want to make it impossible.

Will it make it harder? Will my book still be considered?

Thank-you and best wishes.

I think there's only really one answer, which is that: it depends. It depends on the work, on the illustrations, on the difficulty for a publisher of translating the concept to a finished product. It all depends.