15 minute Manuscript assessment via Zoom with Alyson O'Brien, Publisher at Little Book Press

15 minute Zoom session with Alyson O'Brien after previously submitting a picture book manuscript for assessment.

Alyson O’Brien is the Publishing Director at Little Book Press. She has worked in children’s publishing for 15 years, across both the editorial and commissioning departments.

In 2020, Alyson led the imprint Bright Light, a fresh new list of picture books that explore big issues, such as sovereignty, equality and gender. 

Alyson has published a wide range of beloved titles, such as Our Home, Our Heartbeat (Briggs, Kate Moon and Rachael Sarra), The Boy Who Tried to Shrink His Name (Sandhya Parappukkaran and Michelle Pereira), Jetty Jumping (Andrea Rowe and Hannah Sommerville) and Come Over to My House (Eliza Hull, Sally Rippin and Daniel Gray-Barnett). 

Alyson currently works on the lands of the Bunurong people of the Kulin nation.