REECE and INK Find Some Love

It’s official — And officially a great week for kt literary! From Publishers Marketplace (subscription required): Amy Spalding’s THE REECE MALCOLM LIST, about a daughter reconnecting with her reclusive bestselling author mother, and finding a place for herself at a performing arts high school, and INK IS THICKER THAN WATER, centered around a family-run tattoo [...]

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SALVAGE gets picked up!

I’m thrilled to share some good news for client Alexandra Duncan, which you may have seen already if you get Publishers Weekly: Virginia Duncan at HarperCollins’s Greenwillow Books took North American rights, in a six-figure deal, to Salvage by Alexandra Duncan (no relation). Another YA science fiction entry, the book, which Kate Testerman at KT [...]

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And it’s official…

From PW’s Children’s Bookshelf: Jason Rekulak at Quirk Books acquired the as yet untitled sequel to Ransom Riggs’s bestselling YA novel

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Some of that Good News I Hinted About

First, there was this: Author of ANNA AND THE FRENCH KISS and the Fall 2011 title LOLA AND THE BOY NEXT DOOR, Stephanie Perkins’s ISLA AND THE HAPPILY EVER AFTER, again to Julie Strauss-Gabel at Dutton Children’s, in a nice deal for publication in Fall 2012, by Kate Schafer Testerman at kt literary (World English). [...]

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World, Get Ready to Meet Travis

I’m so So SO excited and pleased to share this news for kt literary client Trish Doller: Trish Doller’s THE NEW NORMAL, about a young Marine home from Afghanistan, dealing with PTSD and trying to find his place in a life that no longer fits, to Michelle Nagler at Bloomsbury, at auction, in a nice [...]

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