Today’s Peace, Love & Books post is a special one, celebrating not just peace, love, and books, but also Maureen Johnson’s birthday! And what better way to celebrate an author but with some of the great fan art created from her books. The following is a favorite quote from The […]
The Name of the Star
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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 […]
Happy 10-11-12, everyone! On such a sequential day, an agent’s mind naturally turns to thoughts of series. Book series, that is. Like the recent release of Super, the second book in Matthew Cody‘s kid superhero series that started with Powerless. And The Madness Underneath, the second book in Maureen Johnson‘s […]
Check out MTV.com’s Hollywood Crush blog for an exclusive reveal of the cover for the second book in Maureen Johnson’s Shades of London series, The Madness Underneath. But wait, there’s more! You can also read a sampler from Madness, and see the new hot paperback cover for The Name of […]
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, […]
A belated, but VERY happy congratulations to Lili Wilkinson, whose novel Pink won a Stonewall Honor at yesterday’s Youth Media Awards given out by the American Library Association! I was in the audience when it was announced, and I will not lie, I did my happy dance. The Stonewall Award […]
Congratulations to all the authors on the Winter 2011 Kids’ Indie Next List, but especially to kt literary clients Maureen Johnson, Matthew Cody, and Stephanie Perkins! Maureen’s The Name of the Star is #8 on the Top Ten list, with this great blurb: Louisiana teen Rory Deveaux arrives in London […]
In honor of everyone’s favorite day to dress up and be someone other than yourself, I want to salute some great book-related costumes! First of all, I have to share the cutest little peddler, my friend Jay & Laura’s boy Henry, from Caps for Sale:And some publishing folk really get […]
The good news keep pouring in! First, for a change of pace, this early review of Faking Faith by Josie Bloss from Publishers Weekly: When 17-year-old Dylan Mahoney naively engages in “sexting,” she becomes an Internet phenomenon and a social pariah. Isolated from her friends and family, she retreats into […]