I’ve been spending the last week or so in a training course for a further belt level in Nia, but I haven’t missed some great news going around — I just haven’t been able to share it… Until now! First of all, here’s a great Publisher’s Weekly review of The […]
Monthly Archives: June 2011
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I’m over at Pitch University today, reviewing queries and video pitches for authors gearing up for RWA Nationals, as well as answering questions in the comments from 10am to 12 noon (Mountain time). My interview is up now, and I’m just starting to post my responses to queries, with my […]
The good news just keeps rolling in! I believe this is the first press review of Bad Taste In Boys by Carrie Harris, which Delacorte will publish next month. From Kirkus: A geeky girl gets the guy in this comic romp through a high school infested with zombies. Kate, who […]
I’m truly DELIGHTED to share the good news that Miss Peregrine, as well as being a wise old bird, is a New York Times bestseller! Congrats to Ransom Riggs and all the peculiar children!
John Scalzi just posted a great blog entitled “How to Have a Writing Career Like Mine.” The short answer? “You can’t.” After reading the whole thing (which I highly recommend that you do), I couldn’t help but think of Gayle Forman’s recent post on jealousy, and how the two are […]
In a comment on a previous post, Olivia asked: If a query letter interests you and you go to read the pages, what things about the pages might turn you off to requesting more? (Or what things in the partial/full will prevent you from wanting to go further with the […]
My client Kiki Hamilton, author of the upcoming urban fantasy The Faerie Ring, just posted five random (well, she called them sekrit) facts about herself. And in a very Carrie Bradshaw way, it got me thinking, How much do you really know about me? Well, quite a bit, conceivably, if […]
Since I reopened to queries last week, I’ve been going through the flood of letters that arrived, trying to keep up. One of the things I’ve noticed, however, is how — even after a query break of almost six months — I’m seeing some of the same things over and […]
Congratulations to debut novelist and kt literary client Ransom Riggs, whose novel Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children was officially released into the world yesterday! Entertainment Weekly gave it a B+ in its review, calling it “black and white and creepy all over,” and praising its “X-Men: First Class-meets-time-travel story […]