Happy literary birthday to Matthew Cody and his debut novel Powerless, which officially launches today! Check out this fantastic description: Twelve-year-old Daniel, the new kid in town, soon learns the truth about his nice—but odd—new friends: one can fly, another can turn invisible, yet another controls electricity. Incredible. The superkids use their powers to secretly [...]
There’s a great scene in the Steve Martin classic movie The Jerk where he exclaims “The new phone book’s here! The new phone book’s here!” — because, you see, the new edition of the phone book has his name in it, and therefore proves he’s made it. He’s somebody. Well, I think every author has [...]
I’m excited about all of my upcoming titles, but at the moment, I’m especially jazzed for the October release of Powerless by Matthew Cody. We’ve already sold Italian rights to Mondadori, and I hope to have more good news on the foreign rights front shortly. In addition, we’ve been thrilled by the in-house support from [...]
Hang on a sec, that sounds wrong. It’s not “powerless,” right? According to our discussion, some people do look to blurbs for guidance on finding great to books. In which case, I’m THRILLED to share the following rave review from Jeff Smith, author of the bestselling Bone series, on Matthew Cody‘s debut novel Powerless: At [...]
So much good news, it’s hard to decide which book jacket to showcase! Let’s go in order of pub date, shall we? The genius librarians at YALSA have nominated Ellen Booraem’s The Unnameables to the 2010 Best Books for Young Adult list. Blog readers may recall that I sat in on the discussion of the [...]
