Maybe you’re one of the few, the proud, and you finished all your holiday shopping early, and you’re ready to snuggle up in front of a cozy fire with a cuddly pet of your choosing at your feet, warm flannels, and something great to read. While we can always suggest […]
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I still have a week or so of work to do (though I’ll once again remind you all that I’m closing to queries after Friday the 17th), and some more work reading to do, but after that, I’m really looking forward to diving into my TBR piles and making some […]
As some of you might have seen, there’s an article or such on me in the latest issue of Writers Digest, in which I talk about one of my all-time favorite books, The Chestry Oak. Very few people seem to have ever heard of this title — the author, Kate […]
I don’t know if you guys saw this little blurb on GalleyCat yesterday, but apparently, avid fans of “Mad Men” can find a list of books as seen on TV, and pick them up for themselves. Now, I’m not saying this is a bad idea — Rona Jaffe’s The Best […]
But even though I have some issues with the person behind it, I think James Patterson's ReadKiddoRead initiative is a good idea.
Most agents, if you know them well enough (or get them drunk) can tell you about the "book that got away": the manuscript in their to-read pile they didn't read before another agent snapped it up, the project they passed on that was sold by a colleague for big bucks, the super-duper mega-bestseller they thought sounded like a retrend of everything they'd ever read before with nothing original about it. And then, in a different category of books that got away, there's the one they maybe sold or worked on in a previous incarnation -- as an editor, perhaps, before they hung out their own shingle, or the Times bestseller whose royalties are all going straight to their former agency after they set out on their own.