It happens all the time. An agent gets good news for an author, shares said good news with her client, there is much private celebrating and then… what? From an outside perspective, it may not seem like much more happens. Oh sure, you might see a Publishers Marketplace announcement a few weeks or months later, [...]
Also appearing in Publishers Marketplace: ANNA AND THE BOY MASTERPIECE by Stephanie Perkins, in which American Anna Oliphant spends a year in a Parisian boarding school and falls for her multi-national classmate, plus a companion novel, LOLA AND THE BOY NEXT DOOR, to Julie Strauss-Gabel at Dutton Children’s Books, in a very nice deal at [...]
From Publishers Marketplace (subscription required): Julia Karr’s XVI, a near-future thriller in which 15-year-old Nina uncovers the mystery surrounding her mother’s death and her missing father, while dreading the coming of her sixteenth birthday and the government-mandated tattoo that references her sexual status, to Jennifer Bonnell at Penguin Books for Young Readers, for publication in [...]
Gah! I have so much good news to share, but which I can’t talk about yet, that I might EXPLODE! It’s been a wild, crazy couple of weeks, and I expect fall is going to be one of flying colors — if I can just keep my head from exploding before then. Hate the tease? [...]
… for some distressing news. According to a new study, “Being overweight — or simply believing they are overweight — might predispose some U.S. teens to suicide attempts.” is this just me, or is this horrifying? It’s all about image for teens, and this study shows that reality has very little to do with perception. [...]
