Roundtable Author-Pitch to Become a Children’s Book Author/Illustrator
Marilyn Scott-Waters loves making things out of paper. Between 2,000 and 7,000 visitors frequent Marilyn’s popular website each day, http://thetoymaker.com, downloading more than six million of her easy-to-make paper toys. Her goal is to help parents and children spend time together making things. Her first self-published book, The Toymaker: Paper Toys that You Can Make Yourself, was a bestselling paper toy book on Amazon.com. The book sold out two print runs, and was picked up as a series by Sterling Publishing in 2010. Marilyn is the creator of the paper toy craft book series The Toymaker’s Christmas: Paper Toys You Can Make Yourself (Sterling, 2010), and The Toymaker’s Workshop: Paper Toys You Can Make Yourself (Sterling, 2011). She is also the co-creator of the fully illustrated middle-grade nonfiction series, Haunted Histories, forthcoming from Christy Ottaviano Books/Henry Holt Books for Young Readers. Ms. Scott-Waters illustrated The Search for Vile Things (Scholastic), and created paper engineering for Pop & Sniff Fruit (Piggy Toes Press). She was also recently featured on Career Day a nationally syndicated program for children produced by Entertainment Studios. She is represented by Jamie Weiss Chilton of the Andrea Brown Literary Agency, http://andreabrownlit.com. Marilyn lives in Costa Mesa, California, with her husband and fourteen-year-old son.
