Grab a grasshopper and join me in congratulating Rebecca Petruck on the release today of her second middle grade novel, BOY BITES BUG. Will didn’t plan to eat a stinkbug. But when his friend Darryl called new kid Eloy Herrera a racial slur, Will did it as a diversion. Now […]
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This is just the greatest. KT Literary author Rebecca Petruck recently shared an awesome letter she received from a reader of her debut novel Steering Toward Normal, which was published in May 2014 by Abrams/Amulet. Rebecca gave me permission to share it here for your enjoyment. In case you’re wondering […]
I’m delighted to share the news of a new sale for Rebecca Petruck, which was announced in PW’s Children’s Bookshelf yesterday! In case that’s too small to read, here’s the lovely pertinent details: Howard Reeves at Abrams/Amulet has bought Rebecca Petruck’s Will Nolan Eats Bugs, in which a class clown […]
Day Six of of our 15 Days of Christmas Giveaways, and we’re hitting the barnyard! At this point in the song, I figure everyone’s about done with birds, so let’s hang out with some cows, shall we? And not just cows, but steer. In Rebecca Petruck’s Steering Toward Normal, we […]
Love this interview with Rebecca Petruck, author of STEERING TOWARD NORMAL, on the research that went into her debut, and having to literally kill her darlings, as the common writing advice goes: “The big thing for me was acknowledging that the steers are beef cattle – they have no other […]
Sorry for the delay in posting this — between Halloween and Hurricane Sandy, last week was a strange one, though I used it to good effect to get almost all caught up on queries. In any case, I got back just over a week ago from our second annual KT […]
In case you’re not a subscriber to Publishers Marketplace, I’m delighted to share some good news for another KT Literary client! Rebecca Petruck’s A WEIRD KIND OF NORMAL, in which two Minnesota boys who compete steers figure out how to be both brothers, and 4H champions, to Howard W. Reeves […]
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 […]
Happy Almost New Year, all! To ring in the new year, and celebrate the old, I wanted to share with you a query that worked — Rebecca Petruck’s query for her middle grade boy book, then entitled BLUE MOO, now to be known as A WEIRD KIND OF NORMAL. Enjoy! […]