I think Intern Jenny and I have talked a lot about trends, and how it seems like we don’t ever get one query about a subject, but a deluge. And yet, if the comments on yesterday’s post have taught me anything (besides that you have excellent taste in Buffy episodes), it’s that sometimes what comes [...]
My client Stephanie Perkins is a big romantic softie. Not only did she share of her favorite romantic scenes from some movies and books with her blog readers the other day, but then she posted some of her readers’ favorite moments. It’s all very swoon-worthy, and I suggest you check it out. Needless to say, [...]
Late post today, as Intern Jenny and I spent the day sending books out, processing contracts, and answering queries. Between reading those, however, I did get a chance to read this, from GalleyCat: Hyperion will publish a memoir that tells the other side of the story behind the memoir, Eat, Pray, Love—a literary response scheduled [...]
Preppy shoes and an email from KLo that continues our discussion from yesterday, sort of: Basically, what I write sort of borders somewhere between YA and adult fiction. Is there any hard and fast answer for where exactly that line is? There’s an easy answer, but there are exceptions. For the most part, books set [...]
Not sure exactly how I feel about this, so I’m opening it up to comments in an attempt to get a dialogue going, and maybe I’ll be able to sort out my own thoughts. Basically, I saw this piece on MediaBistro yesterday which reads as a pretty rough indictment of YA (the author Caitlin Flanagan proclaims “I hate Y.A. novels; they bore me.”), but at the same time, the full-length piece in the Atlantic from which the MediaBistro extract is pulled is a lush paean to Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series.
