There’s a great interview over at Mother Reader with Matthew Cody and Aaron Starmler about their upcoming middle grade titles, and I have to say, I love Matt’s answer about what influenced him to write The Dead Gentleman: It came out of my love of a certain kind of fiction (see above) but it also [...]
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 [...]
As I do regularly, I was trolling the blogosphere and came across this review of Matthew Cody‘s Powerless. I can’t argue with her praise, but I do want to especially point out this bit at the end: This is one of those great debates in children’s literature: should the bad guy be really and truly [...]
Two more reviews just arrived for Matthew Cody‘s Powerless. Will this book be on next year’s shortlist for the Newbery? A girl agent can dream! From the February issue of the Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books (which I’m pasting in its entirety since I can’t find it online elsewhere): When his family moves [...]
