I've been told there are seven people who have not yet heard of Once Upon A Time, a very specialized and over-the-back-fence-type-friendly support magazine for writers and illustrators of children's literature.

If you are one of those seven, please know that as a reader you will find Once Upon A Time brimming over with informative, supportive, entertaining, and just plain helpful articles.

As a writer and/or illustrator you will find Once Upon A Time an exciting market for your articles, artwork, questions, insights, tips and experiences (no fiction). 50% of our magazine is written by freelance writers like YOU!

Once Upon a Time, in its 18th year of publication, is exactly the kind of support magazine you've been looking for!

We aren't going to sell related products or ask you to leave your name so we can bother you later or tell you about changing markets and/or editors, because they'll just change again tomorrow and today's information could well be outdated by the time you read it anyway.

Our purpose is simply to tell you about the respected place we've made for ourselves in the children's writing and illustrating community in the last eighteen years. We'll give you a chance to read what our readers say about us; sample our "excerpt appetizers"; take a look at a sample magazine cover, and read a profile of our standing columnists. Click on "Submissions," and we'll tell you how your work can appear on our pages. And if you find we're just what you've been looking for, we'll give you the opportunity to subscribe for a year or to send $5 for a sample back issue by printing out our order form.

Thanks for stopping by! We appreciate your interest in us.

As you browse our pages, what we want you to remember is that Once Upon A Time offers help and information from the best staff anywhere; we offer beginning writers and illustrators a chance for their first byline; we offer encouragement, inspiration, a sense of community, a connection to others in the field; and we offer it in an over-the-back-fence, friendly kind of way. We're like a letter from home. We think this is what makes us so good!

And finally, if you're a well published author, illustrator, or editor, who has received help in the past, we offer you a chance to join our distinguished list of others repaying that kindness by imparting your hard-earned wisdom to our readers.