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 […]
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
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As we slowly work our way back up to full speed, and the return of our weekly Ask Daphne/About My query posts, I wanted to take a week to open the blog up to your questions. Sure, I did something like this not that long ago, but I need to […]
Over at Quirk Books, they’ve posted the first three chapters of Ransom Riggs’ debut novel Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, and it got me to thinking: how often do free samples or teasers influence your decision to buy a book? For my part, my decision to buy books is […]
Congrats to Ransom Riggs, whose debut novel Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children has just been named to the Top Ten of the Summer 2011 Kids’ Indie Next List! The review reads: “The search for his grandfather’s past leads Jake to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where […]
More great news for Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs! The Library Journal review is in, and it’s a good one: Sixteen-year-old Jacob Portman no longer believes the stories his grandfather told him when he was a little boy. These are obviously fairy tales about children with […]
Howdy, folks! Just checking in from the wilds of maternity-leave-land, and its attendant piles of laundry, broken nights of sleep, and full-on adorableness to tell you (if you didn’t know already) that The Last Little Blue Envelope by Maureen Johnson, the long-awaited sequel to 13 Little Blue Envelopes, is available […]
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 […]