But wait! There’s MORE great news!

August 31st, 2009

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 auction, [...]

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Some of the Great News I’ve Been Saving Up

August 31st, 2009

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 Spring [...]

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That good news I’ve been hinting about recently?

August 13th, 2009

From Publisher’s Marketplace (subscription required):

Kiki Hamilton’s THE FAERIE RING, an urban fantasy set in Victorian London, in which a streetwise pickpocket steals a ring from Buckingham Palace, then has to try to return it in order to keep a peace treaty between the British and Faerie courts, to Susan Chang at Tor, in a nice [...]

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Ask Daphne! Is this for real?

April 13th, 2009

Bizarre shoes for Ryan, who writes:
Hey, I don’t know what to do here. This guy is asking to see my MS, he has published six books, and says he runs the publishing company that published the books. His name is [Redacted], but…we’ll he’s not really an Agent, and I guess he’s sort of a publisher…his [...]

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Rights Fair Preparations

March 16th, 2009

So, as I’ve been twittering lately, later this week I head to NYC, and then on to Italy for the Bologna Book Fair. And while, yes, it’s Italy in the Spring, with all the good food, great scenery, nice weather and such that that implies, but it’s also a lot of work. Work [...]

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