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Picture Books (PB) / Re: What is meant by "Query letters not accepted"?
« Last post by John Nez on May 29, 2022, 10:22 AM »Yes, attachments can be problematic especially for web based responses where you're supposed to limit the size of the attachment. This is hard to do with even jpegs.
One thing that I've found difficult is some agents or publishers who are open to looking at work from an author/illustrator will have a size limit of 2 mb on their forms!
Don't they realize it's almost impossible to show more than 3 images or maybe even just 1 image at that size?
I'm sure it's easy to put up a text PB or even novel that fits into 3 mb... but that's not the case with images. As we know, image files are composed of millions of bits of data, so it's difficult to show any kind of illustrated work with a 32 page dummy book that is smaller than 5 mb.
Sometimes I just have a sort of mix of story text and illustrations that I present as a jpeg... and that kind of works. So attachments can be problematic.
One thing that I've found difficult is some agents or publishers who are open to looking at work from an author/illustrator will have a size limit of 2 mb on their forms!
Don't they realize it's almost impossible to show more than 3 images or maybe even just 1 image at that size?
I'm sure it's easy to put up a text PB or even novel that fits into 3 mb... but that's not the case with images. As we know, image files are composed of millions of bits of data, so it's difficult to show any kind of illustrated work with a 32 page dummy book that is smaller than 5 mb.
Sometimes I just have a sort of mix of story text and illustrations that I present as a jpeg... and that kind of works. So attachments can be problematic.