Editor Interview: Marble Press

children's fiction

Marble Press publishes highly selected books for young readers. We strive to provide child-friendly stories that emphasize different aspects like social-emotional learning, STEM and improving literacy skills. We also plan to publish "craft" books. Marble Press loves early-reader and middle-grade graphic novels.

We have a lot of favorites. If you look at the books published by MP, you will get a picture of our taste.

Marble Press only publishes highly curated materials. We mostly accept agency submissions, but occasionally we publish from unrepresented authors too.

Please read our submission page carefully.
Always send the full manuscript and hone and shorten your pitch. Name and label thing correctly. Your manuscript will be downloaded and get lost if it's named "final 543" or "Marblepress sub"
Also, know your age group and genre.

Read the submission page for the details.

We do read the pitches and the cover letters, but the most important part of your submission is the manuscript.
We'd love to know the relevant things about you.

We start with the forst 5-10 pages. If it's intriguing we read on till the end. If it's not it gets rejected.

After the editor reads a submission and finds it interesting s/he might ask for a few rounds of revisions. If the revisions are satisfying the editor brings the story to the acquisition meeting. More editors and the Marble Press Team reads it too. We discuss the MS at the meeting and make a decision.
The decision can be, 1) more revisions are requested, 2) we offer a contract 3) we reject it.

After the editor reads a submission and finds it interesting s/he might ask for a few rounds of revisions. If the revisions are satisfying the editor brings the story to the acquisition meeting. More editors and the Marble Press Team reads it too. We discuss the MS at the meeting and make a decision.
The decision can be, 1) more revisions are requested, 2) we offer a contract 3) we reject it.

It depends on the submission. It can be a minor copy-editing level, and we may get a draft which with the agreement of the author we transform into something else. Like a draft for one picture book, becomes two books, or maybe we think it's a better fit for an early reader. These bigger transformations are rare. Most of the time what we acquire is already 80-90% ready.

Yes, we nominate and send our books to various awards.
We also use PR and marketing tools to get bigger publicity for our books. We try to produce book trailers, and interviews with authors and illustrators. We collaborate with the authors to produce free Activity Kits for teachers/librarians and caregivers. We attend national and international book conventions.