Matthew Cody‘s The Dead Gentleman continues to earn some fantastic reviews since its initial publication just before the holidays, like this one, from the February 1st issue of Booklist: Two young New Yorkers from different eras unite to save the world from an invasion of zombies led by an elegant, corpse-wearing darkling. Shuttling among worlds, [...]
Last week was awesome. I reopened to queries, and every day, I carved out a little time in the afternoon to go through that day’s batch of email. It was fantastic! I was so on top of things! And then… One day, I didn’t have any time in the afternoon, so I told myself I’d [...]
I got pinged on Twitter this morning by @ErraticArtist who asked: Is there any time you would recommend an author using a pseudonym? I ask because my own name is quite clunky. And I thought — what a great subject for a blog post! (Mostly because I was in the middle of an early lunch [...]
As I’m looking at queries, I’m coming across a lot of details in book descriptions that seem rushed, like so: “She is helped in her efforts by a brooding vampire with a soul, a lesbian witch, a former vengeance demon, a British librarian, a platinum blonde vampire with a chip in his head, and a [...]
In preparation for reopening to queries on Monday the 9th, I thought it might be worthwhile to put up a little more detail of what I’m looking for in manuscripts to represent — and just as importantly, what I don’t care to see more of. In general, I’m open to young adult and middle grade [...]
