Dying to know what happened to Nina?

After reading about her in XVI and Truth? Now you can keep up with her diary! From yesterday’s post: Look at that… my drool smeared the ink. I only laid my head down for a second and now it’s morning. Layla’s puttering around in the kitchen. I know because the smell of toast and coffee’s [...]

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Authors for Henryville

In the midst of pre-Bologna nuttiness, but I wanted to highlight my author Julia Karr’s amazing efforts on behalf of tornado victims in Henryville, Indiana. She’s running an auction with fabulous prize packs from some of the top authors in the YA market — authors like Meg Cabot, Maureen Johnson, Stephanie Perkins, Ransom Riggs, and [...]

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Time for Some TRUTH!

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 [...]

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KT Literary Retreat 2011

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 [...]

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Getting Back to Speed

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, which [...]

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