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You are invited to join the June 1-August 31, 2022 #kidlit Comps Summer Reading Club and read all summer long. The goal is to build a list of comps (published children’s books like yours) to use in your query when you send out your #kidlit manuscript.

Q. What is the #kidlit Comps Summer Reading Club?
A. A digital reading log in a private Facebook Group.

#kidlit Comps Summer Reading Club Rules:
1. Read one *possible* comp a week (a children’s book like yours)
2. in June, July, and August.
3. Post a book emoji 📚 with a # to record it: 📚1, 📚2, etc.
4. Build a list of comps for your query
5. by selecting the best *possible* comps🥇 at the end of each month.

Q. Do you post the book title, too?
A. No. Only post a book emoji: 📚. Book comps are a sales tool. Save this important sales information for your query letter.

Why read comps?

Book comps can help you:

Write your book
Revise your book
Sell your book

Are you ready to ready to read and write this summer? Join us!

Download the #kidlit Comps Summer Reading Club FAQ e-book on the Summer Reading page.
Click the yellow “Join group” button in the e-book.
Then click the blue Facebook “Join group” button.

Q. Can you join without downloading the e-book?
A. No. I’ve had too many friends lose control of their social media accounts to hackers, so I added this extra step as a precaution.

Velda the Awesomest Viking and the Voyage of Deadly Doom
by David MacPhail (Author) and Richard Morgan (Illustrator)
@ Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound

Booktalk: Velda is a small girl with a big axe. The only problem is, everyone thinks she can’t be a proper Viking because she’s “just a little girl”. PURLEASE! She sets sail with Freya, captain of the dragonship Valkyrie, and her notoriously ferocious crew for a life of awesome adventure (and very loud belching).

But when the Valkyrie and her crew are captured by the Queen of the Saxons, Velda is the only one who can free her friends. The small and mighty Viking must travel to the mysterious Islands of Deadly Doom, but there’s just one problem, er, well more than one, actually — she doesn’t have a ship, a crew, or a clue how to get there…

Snippet: After a long, cold swim, the three fugitives finally washed up on a craggy shore. Nissa and Henna wrung the water out of their clothes while Velda jumped up and down shouting curses into the distance. “I hope Odin sends a lighting bolt and sinks your boat! Then I hope a whale eats you!”