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 […]
Sara Beitia
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
You may have already seen this on Stephanie Perkins’ blog or on Twitter, but I’m thrilled to share the followed STARRED review of Anna and the French Kiss from Kirkus Reviews: Since her father’s Nicholas Sparks–like novels have been turned into blockbuster movies and he now has the means (and […]
After not posting at all yesterday (I was caught up in a highly productive flurry or reorganization — an ongoing project that excites my little heart to no end), I’m wussing out a bit today. You guys know about Google Alerts, right? They’re “email updates of the latest relevant Google […]
This one from Publishers Weekly, which says (in part): When his girlfriend, Lily, disappears in the middle of the night while he is asleep in her bed, 17-year-old Albert has no idea where she’s gone or that he will soon become suspected of abducting her. Debut novelist Beitia’s story unfolds […]
More reviews are starting to come in for Sara Beitia‘s The Last Good Place of Lily Odilon, and I’m delighted to share! From the Boise Weekly, where Sara was an arts editor, a look into why Sara wrote the book in the first place: Jokingly agreeing that she writes young […]
A few days ago (ok, it was longer than that, but I’m being generous with myself), I asked for a little help from my readers, in the form of your office/work spaces. I was looking for inspiration for the idea of possibly moving my own home office. And, well, it […]