Erika DiPasquale

Erika manages the I Can Read program, including the classic Biscuit, Frog and Toad, and Little Critter lines. She also works on the Pete the Cat, Girl Scouts, Harold and the Purple Crayon, and Joseph Kuefler’s Digger programs. Her list includes The Last Tamale by Orlando Mendiola and Teresa Martinez, Navya Sings for Navarathri by Lakshmi Thamizhmani and Avani Dwivedi, two YA novels by award-winning author Allison L. Bitz, and projects with National Book Award winner Shifa Saltagi Safadi, New York Times bestselling author Ruth Krauss, Indie Bestselling author Blair Braverman, and more.

Erika’s primary focus is picture books, though she is open to the very select Young Adult or Middle Grade project. She strives to publish joyful books with the potential to make the world a better place.

Erika really wants to be on your submission lists for projects with any of the following characteristics:

• Afterlife stories, like Elsewhere and Everlost and the shows The Good Place and Upload.
• Asexual Representation
• The next star human picture book character with series potential in the vein of Fancy Nancy
• Period (menstruation) Revolution stories

Erika is not the right fit for:

• Claymation or similar illustration styles
• Photographic picture books
• Stories about medical emergencies (she will faint)
• High Fantasy
• Horror

At this time, Erika is not interested in:

• Fantasy
• Sci-Fi (though she is interested in speculative fiction grounded in the real world/that reads like realistic fiction)
• Board Books & Novelty (due to invasive production costs)
• Predominantly food-driven picture books (due to oversaturation)
• Picture book biographies (due to oversaturation)
• Epistolary picture books

Submission Guidelines

Unfortunately, HarperCollins doesn’t accept unagented submissions.

Agents, please email submissions to Erika at HarperCollins.