http://ktliterary.com books aren’t just what we do, they’re who we are Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:09:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Two of us, at least! http://ktliterary.com/2012/02/scholastic-book-club-likes-us/ I had to take a few days off last week to take care of Beau, who was home from daycare feeling poorly, as well as entertaining my sister who was in town to help celebrate his first birthday. But the good news for my authors kept pouring in! Like this ... http://ktliterary.com/2012/01/more-good-news-for-pink/ It's a week of huzzahs around here! YALSA announced some further lists today, including their 2012 Best Fiction for Young Adults list (plus Top Ten), Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Readers, and Popular Paperbacks for Young Readers. Congrats to kt literary clients Maureen Johnson, Stephanie Perkins, Ransom Riggs, Carrie Harris, ... http://ktliterary.com/2012/01/further-congrats/ A belated, but VERY happy congratulations to Lili Wilkinson, whose novel Pink won a Stonewall Honor at yesterday's Youth Media Awards given out by the American Library Association! I was in the audience when it was announced, and I will not lie, I did my happy dance. The Stonewall Award is ... http://ktliterary.com/2012/01/wooooooooooooooooooot/ I'm a day late, but I wanted to devote an entire day to celebrate the release of Julia Karr's second novel Truth, the sequel to XVI. And tonight is, after all, her official launch party in Bloomington, IN. Julia's colleague on the League of Extraordinary Writers and author of Ashfall, Mike ... http://ktliterary.com/2012/01/time-for-some-truth/ Let me be perfectly clear: in a query, you have ONE PAGE to hook my attention. One page to tell me enough about your book that I want to scan down to the end of your letter to read the three pages from your novel that I've requested you attach. ... http://ktliterary.com/2012/01/one-page/ 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 ... http://ktliterary.com/2012/01/dead-gentleman-an-exciting-time-travel-tale/ 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 ... http://ktliterary.com/2012/01/dont-let-it-get-away-from-you/ 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 ... http://ktliterary.com/2012/01/ask-daphne-about-a-pseudonym/ 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 ... http://ktliterary.com/2012/01/a-series-of-things/