Sandra Foreman Sutter is the owner and editor (“top gnome”) at Gnome Road Publishing. She is the author of two traditionally published picture books, a former attorney, mediator and addictions counselor. She’s a mom (chauffeur), crazy cat lady, and fan of kind people.

Gnome Road books are for readers age 3 and older. Presently, we are only publishing picture books.

Our audience attention levels and reading interests are particularly important factors in what we choose to publish. We want stories that are engaging, fresh, and fun, that enrich readers’ narratives about self and others, and that beg to be read time and time again (without causing an eye roll from caregivers). We focus heavily on RE-READABILITY.

We highly recommend you browse the books on our website to see what we have published so far and what is on upcoming lists in order to avoid sending material that is too similar to those titles. For example, we will not be looking for books about farms, stuffed animals, baking/cooking, early reading/writing skills, pianos/violins, baseball, grandparent relationships, pet adoptions, alpacas, moose or caves. We also recommend sending material that fits into one of the categories on our wish list: sports, earth sciences (other than caves), poetry collections, holiday themes, and unique storytelling formats.