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 Mullin writes:
Julia’s accomplished the nigh-impossible—writing [...]
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 [...]
So much for being back, huh? As I said, I’m taking it slowly. One thing I have been doing is reading lots of great manuscripts from my clients — the latest version of LOLA AND THE BOY NEXT DOOR by Stephanie Perkins, which Dutton will publish in September, THE NEW NORMAL by Trish Doller, [...]
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 [...]
As you should know by now, Julia Karr’s been counting down the Sixteen Weeks to the release day of her debut novel XVI with a tour around the blogosphere. This week, in response to her Kirkus review which asked “How did the situation get so broken?”, Julia blogged on Janet Fox’s website about several [...]
