Before I head off to BEA and the possibility of less-than-daily posting, I wanted to share some recent news you may have missed. Shall we? Matthew Cody announced the title for his brilliant new middle grade novel — stay tuned for THE DEAD GENTLEMAN, coming to stores near you in Summer 2011! Carrie Harris is [...]
Hang on a sec, that sounds wrong. It’s not “powerless,” right? According to our discussion, some people do look to blurbs for guidance on finding great to books. In which case, I’m THRILLED to share the following rave review from Jeff Smith, author of the bestselling Bone series, on Matthew Cody‘s debut novel Powerless: At [...]
A conversation starter today, if you don’t mind. I was thinking about blurbs, and how eager we as agents and editors are to get the right people to blurb our books, and I posed the question on Twitter: As readers, how much weight do you put on blurbs? Will you pick up an unknown author [...]
Just plain adorable summery heels (no other reason except I like ‘em) for Peter, who writes: Most of us understand that you don’t include peer-review “awards” as part of your credits in a query. But if you’ve had a novel reach the Editor’s Desk on HarperCollins’ Authonomy website, and received a review from (an unnamed) [...]
I mentioned on Facebook that I was sending out blurb requests (for Josie Bloss’ truly BRILLIANT new novel Albatross) and a good friend of mine left this: You won’t be able to put Kate Schafer Testerman down! A great beach read. The pages almost turn themselves! She’s a steamy thriller that brings to mind early [...]
