| ![]() This is what Tessa Duder, author of the famous Alex quartet, wrote about The Little Dragon Without Fire. For those who wanted one, she was providing, for a small fee, critiques of entries in the competition that this story won.
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Mallinson Rendel had already made it plain to me they viewed stories about dragons and witches with jaundiced eyes, but I did send it to Scholastic, though without any enthusiasm or hope because, as far as I could tell, they were no longer publishing fantasy, preferring instead books about disasters and sport (in which the protagonist has to learn something about himself) My manuscript winged its way back to me within a week, but for some reason got lost on the way and six months later I was forced to get back in touch with Scholastic. That’s not something an author likes doing: pestering editors about a submission is a definite no-no! © L A Barker Enterprises
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