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 [...]
This past weekend, I had the pleasure of meeting with ten of my authors for our first annual KT Literary Retreat, in Estes Park, Colorado. And I do mean “meet”, at least in 8 out of ten cases. The wonder of the internet and today’s publishing world is that it allows us to communicate and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
After not posting at all yesterday (I was caught up in a highly productive flurry or reorganization — an ongoing project that excites my little heart to no end), I’m wussing out a bit today. You guys know about Google Alerts, right? They’re “email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based [...]
