Happy Book Birthday to FAKING FAITH!

Congrats to Josie Bloss on the publication of her fourth YA contemporary novel, Faking Faith. I love Josie’s post on her blog today about her dedication to the book, to her stepsisters: I was a reserved and lonely only child until they came into my life. I didn’t even know what I was missing until [...]

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News Round-Up

The good news keep pouring in! First, for a change of pace, this early review of Faking Faith by Josie Bloss from Publishers Weekly: When 17-year-old Dylan Mahoney naively engages in “sexting,” she becomes an Internet phenomenon and a social pariah. Isolated from her friends and family, she retreats into the blogosphere, where she happens [...]

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A Year in Queries

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 next [...]

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Good News for Josie!

I’m thrilled to share the latest news for kt literary client (and former Band Geek) Josie Bloss. From Publishers Marketplace: Author of ALBATROSS and BAND GEEK LOVE, Josie Bloss’s FAKING FAITH, about a teen shunned for a “sexting” incident who fakes her identity to fit in online with a community of ultra-conservative homeschooled teenage girls, [...]

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