Check out the pretty new covers for 13 Little Blue Envelopes and The Last Little Blue Envelope by Maureen Johnson! HarperCollins is re-releasing these on May 3, 2016, but you can click on either image to add them to your Goodreads shelf now. More about both books on the EpicReads […]
The Last Little Blue Envelope
It’s a week of huzzahs around here! YALSA announced some further lists today, including their 2012 Best Fiction for Young Adults list (plus Top Ten), Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Readers, and Popular Paperbacks for Young Readers. Congrats to kt literary clients Maureen Johnson, Stephanie Perkins, Ransom Riggs, Carrie Harris, […]
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 […]
As I’m sure did many of you this weekend, I went to see some fireworks to celebrate the Fourth of July (one shot from last night’s spectacle pictured here, in fact). And, as is my wont, it got me thinking about books. (If you know me at all, this does […]
Today’s question comes from Anne B., who writes: This is one of those politically correct questions. Recently I’ve read a few books where a character is introduced a few chapters into the story and the narrator/main character describes her as “black” or “Asian” or “Hispanic.” It always jolts me because […]