I’m thrilled to share some good news to get this holiday break off to an excellent start! First, let’s announce the winners of our contests, shall we? First up, Anne C. wins a kt literary tote bag for her picture with her copy of Anna and the French Kiss. Anne, email me your mailing [...]
Huzzah! We just got news of our third starred review for Ellen Booraem’s Small Persons With Wings, this one from School Library Journal’s forthcoming January edition:
When 13-year-old Mellie Turpin was very young, her best friend was a three-inch-tall Small Person with Wings (or Parvi Pennati–but never call them fairies!) named Fidius. She hasn’t seen Fidius [...]
I had great intentions this year to post quarterly status reports on my query stats, but I seem to have missed a quarter (here’s April and July, at least). A quick recap: in the first three months of 2010, I saw 1,297 queries and requested 20 partials, passing on all of them. In the [...]
This time of year is super exciting here at kt literary. Not only are the holidays approaching, and with it, our annual closure to queries and a chance to get caught up on reading for pleasure, but this year in particular, we’ve also got some AMAZING projects coming out in the new year (not even [...]
Woot! Another starred review for a star of kt literary — this time, Ellen Booraem’s second middle grade novel, Small Persons With Wings. Publishers Weekly writes:
In a fairy story that’s wistful, humorous, and clever, Booraem (The Unnameables) suggests that the real world–with its disappointments and failings–is still better than living with illusions. When five-year-old Mellie [...]
