How to Succeed in the Shifting Kidlit Landscape

Literary agent Sera Rivers is one of publishing's rising stars. One key reason for Sera's success is her ability to gauge the massive changes taking place in publishing and use them to the advantage of her clients.

On January 20th, she'll reveal her insider knowledge to help you take advantage of some significant new opportunities.

By understanding what's taking place in the kidlit publishing world, Sera will help transform your fear and apprehension into positive, focused action.

She'll also provide specific advice about the hottest categories, changes in the ways editors do their jobs and the business realities that shape their decision making.

This is crucial inside information that will ease your concerns and help you move forward in your writing career in 2026 - and beyond.

The Changes Are Real.

After a decade of COVID, mergers, acquisitions, consolidation and cultural shifts, much about the kidlit world seems unrecognizable from just a few years ago.

The fundamentals of writing - dialogue, plot, character development, setting and such - still apply. But the machinery that puts that writing into the world has been transformed.

For some, that's an obstacle that simply cannot be overcome. But for those with access to someone like Sera Rivers, it's an opportunity to move forward with confidence and excitement.

Sera will teach you what's selling now, the new opportunities provided by specialty imprints and the expanding indie bookstore segment, and how to connect with today's editors to give your manuscript an advantage over the competition.

This is absolutely crucial information for all kidlit writers, and we highly recommend you absorb and begin employing this insider knowledge now.

Your Instructor: Sera Rivers

Sera Rivers is a literary agent at Speilburg Literary Agency, an AALA member, and a writer. She represents books in the children’s and adult markets.

She received her master of fine arts degree in Writing for Children, with a concentration in young adult novels, from Simmons University.

Sera's young adult memoir THE WICKED ONES won the 2016 PEN New England Susan P. Bloom Children’s Book Discovery Award.

She worked in educational publishing for seven years, writing and editing a variety of genres for children and adults. Now, as an agent, Sera provides editorial feedback to help clients get their manuscripts submission ready.

Learn more about Sera at serarivers.com

What kidlit publishers are looking for *right now*.
How COVID transformed publishing, and what it means going forward.
How mergers and consolidation have led to some surprising opportunities for writers.
What Universal Themes are, and why they're critical moving forward.
The kidlit categories that will attract the most attention in 2026.
Who the new breed of editorial gatekeepers are, and how to authentically connect with them.
How agents view the current environment, and why it matters.
How to make your manuscript stand out from the glut of submissions.
Why authenticity and emotional resonance are particularly important now.
Why "crossover appeal" is a magic phrase for publishers.

...and much more.

Plus, live attendees can ask Sera questions during the Q&A session.

That's a lot of powerful information in one workshop, and you can count on Sera to make it all easy to follow and put directly into action.

This session is pure instruction, it's complete (nothing more to buy afterward) and nothing additional will be sold.

Your purchase includes a PDF takeaway and lifetime access to the video replay.

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The cost for everything is just $47! Like any of our workshops, it will be among the best investments you make this year in developing your writing craft and career.

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