Giving Back to My Readers

…And only asking for a little bit of love in return. As you may know, we’ve had quite a run of success with Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs, which has been on the New York Times bestseller list for 42 weeks and counting. And that kind of long term appreciation for [...]

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Dying to know what happened to Nina?

After reading about her in XVI and Truth? Now you can keep up with her diary! From yesterday’s post: Look at that… my drool smeared the ink. I only laid my head down for a second and now it’s morning. Layla’s puttering around in the kitchen. I know because the smell of toast and coffee’s [...]

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Curious About The Bologna Book Fair?

This is an EXCELLENT overview of what an agent does at the fair. In my case, it was just over 50-some-odd official meetings, plus a few drop-ins, and casual chats in the aisles or at the bar. I’m still going through my notes of my meetings, and sending out the requested material, as well as [...]

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Ask Daphne! About slang

I was beginning to think you guys didn’t have any more questions for me about the great big world of publishing — that I’d answered your every concern in the past four years of blogging! I’m so glad to hear there’s still things I can post about! Like this question from Donn: I have a [...]

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Web Monkey is on the job!

Also, if you come to this site regularly, you may have noticed things look a little funky right now. Rest assured, my genius Web Monkey is on the case, and things should be back to normal shortly. Especially now that we’ve both finished playing Mass Effect 3. (Don’t get me started.)

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