Today’s Peace Love Books post comes to us from Julia Karr, author of XVI and TRUTH. She’s currently working on a third book in the series. I’ve loved a number of pets (both cats & dogs) over the years. With some of them I’ve felt a special connection that’s gone […]
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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 […]
I’m delighted to inaugurate my new series of posts about my clients and their books with an interview with Julia Karr, recent lady of leisure, and author of Truth (Puffin, January 2012) and XVI (Puffin, January 2011). From her bio: Julia Karr lives in Bloomington, Indiana with her four cats […]
After reading about her in XVI and Truth? Now you can keep up with her diary! From yesterday’s post: Look at that… my drool smeared the ink. I only laid my head down for a second and now it’s morning. Layla’s puttering around in the kitchen. I know because the […]
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 you should know by now, Julia Karr‘s been counting down the Sixteen Weeks to the release day of her debut novel XVI with a tour around the blogosphere. This week, in response to her Kirkus review which asked “How did the situation get so broken?”, Julia blogged on Janet […]
This time of year is super exciting here at kt literary. Not only are the holidays approaching, and with it, our annual closure to queries and a chance to get caught up on reading for pleasure, but this year in particular, we’ve also got some AMAZING projects coming out in […]
These lovely shoes are part of the Tron: Legacy couture line, and while, at $800, they’re not going to be cheap, that’s probably a bargain compared to being trapped in cyberspace for a decade or more, right? Anyway, moving on to today’s question, Denise writes: I’ve read conflicting information on […]
You could wait til Monday’s print edition of Publishers Weekly, or you can join me now in celebrating a review of Julia Karr‘s debut XVI which says: “Gender politics and sexual awareness play prominent roles in Karr’s thoughtprovoking dystopian debut. A solid, enjoyable story.” PW also says “Karr’s story has […]