I’m moments away from calling it a weekend, but wanted to share these drool-worthy shoes and a question from Ryan, who asks: I currently have a few publishers who requested material reviewing my book. If one is interested, and I decide I need an agent, is it okay to re-query […]
Monthly Archives: July 2009
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There’s been lots of serious talk about book covers recently, so let’s have a little fun today, shall we? I’m totally stealing my idea for this post from the Alien Onions, who blogged: CREATE YOUR DEBUT YA COVER 1 – Go to Fake Name Generator. The name that appears is […]
Did you guys see this? An avid reader in south west Scotland is on the brink of borrowing her 25,000th book from her local libraries. Louise Brown, 91, from Stranraer, took her first book on loan from Castle Douglas library in 1946. Since then she has borrowed at least six […]
It’s been a while since we’ve done this, and I have just over 50 queries in my inbox to get all caught up on, so I figured it’s time for another live blog! As always, my goal here isn’t to be mean or petty, but to give my brief comments […]
I went to see “The Proposal” tonight with some girlfriends, fully prepared to be AMAZED by what Hollywood thinks a book editor does all day. There were, shall we say, some inaccuracies. Not the least of which was mistaking Massachusetts for Alaska, but that’s another issue all together. One of […]
I feel like I’ve been reading queries and partials and fulls for days. Which I have. And will continue to do throughout the weekend in a bid to get all caught up by next week. But let’s just say it’s left me a little bit fried on everything else, shall […]
There’s been a lot of talk on the blogosphere lately about the US cover for Justine Larbalestier‘s Liar, which comes out from Bloomsbury this fall. Justine herself wrote a fantastic post about the issues of race in cover design, which has been picked up by Publishers Weekly and Jezebel, among […]
I shared this on Twitter, but it’s awesome enough to require additional reposting. Lili Wilkinson, author of Pink, responds on her blog to an article that says, in part: TEENAGERS are not like us. They grunt rather than converse, slouch rather than walk, sleep till noon and their preferred dress […]
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, […]