Appleseeds

http://www.cobblestonepub.com/magazine/APP/

Writers' Guidelines for APPLESEEDS

General Information

Following are writers' guidelines for APPLESEEDS, a 36-page, multidisciplinary, nonfiction social studies magazine for children ages 6-9 (primarily in grades 3 & 4). Writers are encouraged to study recent APPLESEEDS back issues for content and style. (Sample issues are available for $6.95 plus $2.00 shipping and handling. Sample issues will not be sent without prepayment.)

APPLESEEDS purchases all rights to material.

Illustrators, please click here to access Illustration Guidelines for APPLESEEDS.

Editorial Guidelines

We are looking for articles that are lively, age-appropriate, and exhibit an original approach to the theme. Scientific and historical accuracy is extremely important. Authors are urged to use primary sources and up-to-date resources for their research. And remember, your article must stimulate the curiosity of a child. APPLESEEDS purchases all rights to material.

Feature articles:

1-4 pages, (Most issues contain about 10 feature articles.)
Includes: nonfiction, interviews, and how-to

Departments:

• Fun Stuff (games or activities relating to the theme, 2 pages)
• Reading Corner (literature piece, 2-4 pages)
• By the Numbers (math activities relating to the theme, 1 page)
• Where in the World (map activities, 2 pages)
• Your Turn (theme-related opportunities for children to take action, 1 page)
• Experts in Action (short profile of professional in field related to theme, 1 page)
• The Artist's Eye (fine or folk art relating to theme, 1 page)
• From the Source (age-appropriate primary source material, 1-2 pages)

Assume 150 words per page; payment approximately $50 per page

Query Guidelines

Writers may propose an article for any issue. The article idea must be closely related to the theme of the issue. Please include a completed query: write a brief description of your idea, including a list of sources you plan to use, your intended word length, and any unique angle or hook you think will make your piece irresistible to its intended audience (8 - 10-year-olds and their teachers and parents).

Please note that:

• Each query must be written separately; however, you may email them together.
• Feel free to include copies of published writing samples with your query if you have not yet written for APPLESEEDS.
• After the deadline for query proposals has passed, the editors will review the suggestions and assign articles. This may take several months - don't despair! We may suggest modifications to your original proposal or assign an entirely new idea.

Please do not begin work until you've received a detailed assignment sheet from us!

Notes

• Email queries are required. To avoid problems in downloading attachments, always include your query in the body of the email. You may also include attachments if you wish.
• Queries may be submitted at any time before the deadline, but queries sent well in advance of deadline MAY NOT BE ANSWERED FOR SEVERAL MONTHS.
• Assignments are made approximately one month before manuscripts are due.
• Due to the large volume of queries we receive, we are no longer able to notify writers whose queries are not selected for assignment. If you wish to check on the status of your query, please e-mail the editor no earlier than one month after the query due date.

Email queries to:
susanbuckleynyc@gmail.com

PLEASE include your mailing address and phone number on any query!

Theme list for 2012 - 2013	[query due date]
Who Did What in the Age of Exploration? (Sep 2012): From shipbuilders to sail makers, map makers to explorers themselves""-a look at who did what it took to explore the world in the Age of Exploration.	[10/15/11]
Cats Rule! (Oct 2012): Following the success of our issues on horses and dogs, an issue that looks at cats (from domestic to wild).	[2/1/12]
How the World Works: Inside a Restaurant (Nov/Dec 2012): Just what goes in creating and running a restaurant whether now or in the past, in the U.S. or around the world.	[3/1/12]
Amazing Animal Abilities (Jan 2013): Exploring some of the incredible abilities of animals from a dog's phenomenal sense of smell to a parrot's ability to master vocabulary.	[5/1/12]
How to Make a Magazine (Feb 2013) A step by step look at how magazines-as well as 'zines and online magazines-are put together.	[6/1/12]
Cleopatra (Mar 2013): In Women's History Month, a look at this powerful and complex woman and her world.	[7/1/12]
Kids at Work (Apr 2013): The working world of children in the past as well as around the world today.	[8/1/12]
It's the Greatest! (May/Jun 2013): Celebrating the greatest inventions, people, landmarks, forces of nature, whatever we rank as "the greatest" of its kind.	[9/1/12]
You Are there...on the Great Barrier Reef (Jul/Aug 2013): Australia's Great Barrier Reef-what it is, why it matters, and its future holds.	[10/1/12]

Photo Guidelines

To be considered for publication, photographs must relate to a specific theme. Writers are encouraged to submit available photos with their query or article.

• Our fees for non-agency professional quality photographs range from $25 to $50/image.
• Cover fees are set on an individual basis for one-time use, plus promotional use.
• All cover images are color.
• Prices set by museums, societies, stock photography houses, etc., are paid or negotiated. Photographs that are promotional in nature (e.g., from tourist agencies, organizations, special events, etc.) are usually submitted at no charge.
• If you have photographs pertaining to any upcoming theme, please contact the editor by email. You may email low-resolution images for consideration, but please do not mail original non-digital images unless specifically requested to do so.

Updated 8/29/11