I’m thrilled today to celebrate the publication of S. Terrell French‘s debut middle grade novel, Operation Redwood! The Shelf Elf has a lovely review up already, as well as an interview. The book centers around one young boy’s attempts, with his friends, to save a redwood grove from development. Development […]
Monthly Archives: April 2009
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It’s bill pay day here at kt literary, and it’s worth repeating — you are planning on putting aside a nice chunk of your advance for taxes, right? And you’re tracking all your writing-related expenses, yes? Because you should. But that’s a kind of boring post, so I’m going to […]
In addition to going through a bunch of my own queries for Queryday last week, I also made a secret guest appearance on Miss Snark’s First Victim as her monthly Secret Agent. Authoress, aka the aforementioned first victim of Miss Snark, opened submissions early in the week and posted 50 […]
So Friday ended up being a very successful Queryday on Twitter, and, I hope, a very informative one, too! Fellow Colorado literary agent Rachelle Gardner shared
Fellow literary agent Colleen Lindsay has once more spread the word for a day of tweeting about queries — no longer to go by the less-than-enthusiastically-received moniker of “queryfail”, today’s look at our queries is to be known as “Queryday,” and will be hashtagged appropriately. Honestly, I debated whether or […]
Moonrat has a fascinating piece up on her blog about marketing, speaking to the many bloggers and twitterers who reposted her quote of the other day, “I wish more agents pressed for marketing commitments than high advances.” Clearly and concisely, she lays out exactly what marketing dollars and commitments DO, […]
I’m terribly grateful to the Literary Life blog for naming Ask Daphne one of her favorite blogs and awarding me the Premios Dardos award, acknowledging “the values that every blogger shows in his or her effort to transmit cultural, ethical, literary, and personal values every day.” I do try! As […]
Notwithstanding a few spoilers, we love this review of Band Geeked Out from a teen reader and member of the Teens Know “Best” YA Galley Group of St. Paul, MN, as it appeared in the School Library Journal: This story isn’t a fairytale story about how wonderful high school is […]
Maureen Johnson is getting ready for the May release of the paperback of Suite Scarlett, keeping busy with BEDA and her new ning, but in the meantime, I’m thrilled to share that the Horn Book recently published a special list of Funny Books, and Suite Scarlett was one of only […]