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 […]
Monthly Archives: August 2009
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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 […]
Wear brilliant shoes (like these) with aplomb? No, be an agent. As Rachel asks: Over the past couple of years I have become interested in the world of publishing and more recently, the idea of becoming a literary agent. I only have one problem: I don’t know where to start […]
Intern Jenny reminded me that I had yet to decide on the books I was hoping to read for pleasure before Labor Day passes us by and the new school year starts… I mean, before the busy fall season is upon us. Without further ado — as Dande said “I […]
Gah! I have so much good news to share, but which I can’t talk about yet, that I might EXPLODE! It’s been a wild, crazy couple of weeks, and I expect fall is going to be one of flying colors — if I can just keep my head from exploding […]
I’m not usually a fan of socks with heels, but these work it, for KK, who writes: I just started entering a contest on Textnovel. The winning entry gets a guaranteed publishing contract and prize money. What are your thoughts on these kinds of contests and would you as an […]
There’s a couple of exciting things going on right now (more details to follow soonish), but I find myself in the unenviable position of waiting on all sorts of things. Response, phone calls, answers, etc. I’m going through queries in an effort to get caught up, but also to help […]
What do you do when you… Did you ever wonder if… What if… Eek! When rhetorical questions attack! Intern Jenny and I are spending the day going through your queries, and for some reason, it seems as if this batch is chock full of rhetorical questions. Is it the worst […]
More later, but for now, I wanted to share this interview I did with Shelli over at Market My Words, all about (you guessed it) marketing. An excerpt: How important do you feel social networking is to authors? Vitally important, I think. Gone are the days when an author could […]