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How I Managed to Get Six Books Published in 2021
Author Rajani LaRocca shares how she went from selling one middle-grade novel to releasing six books in a single year.
Author:
Jul 13, 2021
This is my third year publishing books for young readers. After having one book published in 2019 (
Midsummer’s Mayhem, my middle-grade debut) and 2020 (
Seven Golden Rings, my picture book debut), this year I have
six books coming out. Between February and September, I have two novels and four picture books releasing into the world!
I never intended to have six books published in a single year. This happened through a combination of coincidence, timing, and luck, and because I write a lot and have an agent who is willing to submit a lot. I wrote and sold a couple of these books in 2020; others, I wrote much earlier. Some were a struggle to write; some flowed out of me. But all these stories reflect some aspect of me and what I care about, and I’m delighted that they’re all coming in