In honor of everyone’s favorite day to dress up and be someone other than yourself, I want to salute some great book-related costumes! First of all, I have to share the cutest little peddler, my friend Jay & Laura’s boy Henry, from Caps for Sale:And some publishing folk really get […]
Monthly Archives: October 2011
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I’m thrilled to share that Ransom Riggs‘ novel Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children has been named to Hudson Booksellers’ list of the Best Books of 2011, in the Young Readers category! Also, in case you missed it, there’s also this great news for Ransom (from Publishers Marketplace): NYT bestselling […]
Fellow Colorado agent Kristin Nelson shared a link today from PW’s ShelfTalker blog. I won’t repeat Kristin’s fab overview of the problems with a lot of covers, but I do want to re-emphasize the comment from Elizabeth Bluemle about making decisions for an entire industry based on a single person’s […]
You guys, my heart just about broke reading all your stories of libraries — and teens — in need of great books. I’m so glad I can help, even if it’s just with one box of books. And I’m so grateful to my friends and colleagues who are also helping. […]
I’ve been behind for so long, but as of 10:30 Mountain on Thursday, October 20th, I’ve read all queries through October 5th. Which is to say, I’m almost back within my promised two-week response timeline! Hooray! If you sent a query prior to October 6th and haven’t heard back, give […]
OMG, you guys. Your stories! Your kids in need! I wanted to help EVERYONE, and I only had this one box of books. Luckily, there’s the internet. I asked, and you answered: other literary agents, authors, my own clients, and more have volunteered their own boxes of books. I can’t […]
The other night, Rexroth came down to my home office for a conversation. As we were talking, however, I couldn’t help but notice his eyes glancing behind me to the bookshelf of client materials I keep on hand. “Those shelves are going to collapse. Soon,” he predicted. And, looking behind […]
It’s been a wild, crazy couple of days here at the Unfeasible/Implausible household, and I’m afraid my mind’s not completely on publishing business or news (though I was pleased to read Lauren Myracle’s first interview post-NBA controversy with Vanity Fair). So, tangentially related to the question of awards, I’m turning […]
This morning, the supremely classy Lauren Myracle withdrew her novel Shine from consideration for the National Book Award, after being asked to by the National Book Foundation. Why? Because they f’ed up and misheard “Shine” when the judge called in to nominate “Chime”, and the NBF couldn’t bear to stand […]