Steven Hornby Biography
Steven Hornby is a multi award winning animator and has been storytelling for over 15 years in visual effects and animated movies. He was born in Preston, England and attended Lancaster University for Design Communication. After working on a set of commerials in Europe and Australasia and his own short film, "Zzz Night", Steven joined the animation crew in 2000, on the Academy Award winning "The Lord of the Rings" film in New Zealand.
He is best known for his award winning animation, bringing to life J.R.R. Tolkien's fictional character, Gollum, on "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy.
He has since worked as a lead animator on "I, Robot" (2004), "King Kong" (2005), Disney's "Meet the Robinson's" (2007) and "Glago's Guest" (2008), and more recently Dreamwork's "Kung Fu Panda" (2008), and "How to Train Your Dragon" (In Theaters 2010).
In 2009, Steven finished his children's fantasy novel, "Secrets of a Christmas Box" to be released September 1, 2009. He initially planned 'Secrets of a Christmas Box' as a screenplay after spending several years having the story running around in his head, but instead turned it into his first children's novel.
Steven is currently working on the sequel to his Christmas novel. He lives in Burbank, California with his family.
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Cover Letter Elements
When writing your cover letter, be sure to list the word count for your manuscript. This is something that is important to editors as certain types of books and stories require different word counts.
List the ages that the manuscript was written for.
Talk briefly about why you wrote it. Did you have a similar experience? Do you really know the material you are writing about?
Be sure to include a short biography about yourself. If you get published, they could potentially use this to promote you.
Be polite -- this is important! You are sending them your manuscript to potentially publish.
AND – if you ever want to re-submit something in the future, that editor might remember if they did not have a favorable experience with you previously.
Remember to enclose a SASE and your manuscript.
List the ages that the manuscript was written for.
Talk briefly about why you wrote it. Did you have a similar experience? Do you really know the material you are writing about?
Be sure to include a short biography about yourself. If you get published, they could potentially use this to promote you.
Be polite -- this is important! You are sending them your manuscript to potentially publish.
AND – if you ever want to re-submit something in the future, that editor might remember if they did not have a favorable experience with you previously.
Remember to enclose a SASE and your manuscript.
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