Officially an agented Illustrator!

[lizardillo]

Congratulations Lovely to hear that all of your hard work has paid off. I wish you all the best for the future.

[StudioLooong]

@KatrinaF Keep trying! I often felt really discouraged or like I was sending queries into a black hole.

Find regular opportunities for critique. My critique groups have been immensely helpful. I've also done portfolio and dummy reviews through SCBWI and The Illustration Department. Both gave me really valuable, personal feedback to help me take my work to the next level.

Take advantage of any submission opportunity you can. I participated in Twitter Pitch events and attended conferences for the submission opportunities (despite being completely burnt out on zoom). Submit to contests where your work can gain visibility. SVS does contests but so does SCBWI and there are other one-offs like the PBPitch Mentorship, PB Party, Little Brown's Emerging artist award and others. These are all great places to make connections.

[ACPetullo]

@StudioLooong said in Officially an agented Illustrator!:

Dan Cramer of Page Turner Literary Agency

Congratulations !

[Jeremiahbrown]

Congrats, that’s really exciting!

[ruth]

@StudioLooong Congratulations!!! That's awesome news! Wishing you every success with your first picture book project.

[Blitz55]

Congrats on that.
Great accomplishment!

[Griffin McPherson]

That’s so exciting! Congratulations!

[LauraA]

@StudioLooong Woohoo! Congratulations! And thanks for the tips as well.

[braden H]

AWESOOOOOOOME!!!!! Good for you!!!!

[Johanna Kim]

@StudioLooong Congratulations, Taylor!!! Wonderful news!

[Lee White]

@StudioLooong Awesome!!!

[Asyas_illos]

Congratulations! Good for you!

[Kristen Lango]

Congratulations!

[Valerie Light]

@StudioLooong Wow Congratulations! Thanks for sharing your insights on the process of getting out there!

[PenAndrew]

@StudioLooong Congratulations. you are a great encouragement to all of us hoping to work hard and succeed.

[KathrynAdebayo]

@StudioLooong Wonderful news!!

[Holumpa]

@StudioLooong Wow, thank you so much for the detailed answer, that helpes a lot! And I am sure you found the eprfect fit that way, hope you get some wonderful stories to illustrate

[aurelia]

Congratulations!! What a great news! Wishing you all the best!

[KatrinaF]

What wonderful insight! Thank you for so much detail and inspiration. I've got two book dummies in the works but still not on my front burner. I'm going to have to re-prioritize here soon. Congrats again!

[Heather Boyd]

@StudioLooong

Hi, I have 3 clarifying questions I'd like to ask, if you'd be so kind to help,

1. Does having a Literary Agent mean you always work on your own stories or could you also work on illustrating other author's stories? Are illustrators able to do both?

2. What is 'skip-the-slush-pile' submission? How can I identify these from other submission requests?

3. And do you know if small to medium agencies still work to support more full time pay the bills illustrators?

If you can help me with any of these questions, I would very much appreciate it.

Thanks again and all the best!!!

Heather,