What are some of the reasons that stories don get reviewed (or get rejected) by the major publishers?
The major book publishers prefer to publish children’s books with generic, “feel good” themes that appeal to the very broadest global audience. A large number of writer’s stories that I work with target a specific niche of the children’s book market. For example, I’ve helped create books that deal with sensitive issues like building a deformed child’s self-esteem, or how a family copes with a death or a life-threatening disease in the family. Also, the major book publishers receive 5,000 (or more) children’s book manuscript submissions per month to review, and most of the publishers do not have the staff to review even a small fraction of those manuscripts.
