Today’s Peace Love Books post comes to us from Julia Karr, author of XVI and TRUTH. She’s currently working on a third book in the series. I’ve loved a number of pets (both cats & dogs) over the years. With some of them I’ve felt a special connection that’s gone […]
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We made it! 15 days of awesome holidays giveaways, and for the big finish, I’ve got FIFTEEN books to give away. Yes!! Are you ready for this book-a-palooza? Leave a comment below, and you could win one of these fabulous prize packs: A paperback of ALBATROSS by Josie Bloss A […]
I’m delighted to inaugurate my new series of posts about my clients and their books with an interview with Julia Karr, recent lady of leisure, and author of Truth (Puffin, January 2012) and XVI (Puffin, January 2011). From her bio: Julia Karr lives in Bloomington, Indiana with her four cats […]
After reading about her in XVI and Truth? Now you can keep up with her diary! From yesterday’s post: Look at that… my drool smeared the ink. I only laid my head down for a second and now it’s morning. Layla’s puttering around in the kitchen. I know because the […]
In the midst of pre-Bologna nuttiness, but I wanted to highlight my author Julia Karr’s amazing efforts on behalf of tornado victims in Henryville, Indiana. She’s running an auction with fabulous prize packs from some of the top authors in the YA market — authors like Meg Cabot, Maureen Johnson, […]
I’m a day late, but I wanted to devote an entire day to celebrate the release of Julia Karr‘s second novel Truth, the sequel to XVI. And tonight is, after all, her official launch party in Bloomington, IN. Julia’s colleague on the League of Extraordinary Writers and author of Ashfall, […]
This past weekend, I had the pleasure of meeting with ten of my authors for our first annual KT Literary Retreat, in Estes Park, Colorado. And I do mean “meet”, at least in 8 out of ten cases. The wonder of the internet and today’s publishing world is that it […]
So much for being back, huh? As I said, I’m taking it slowly. One thing I have been doing is reading lots of great manuscripts from my clients — the latest version of LOLA AND THE BOY NEXT DOOR by Stephanie Perkins, which Dutton will publish in September, THE NEW […]
I had great intentions this year to post quarterly status reports on my query stats, but I seem to have missed a quarter (here’s April and July, at least). A quick recap: in the first three months of 2010, I saw 1,297 queries and requested 20 partials, passing on all […]