Laura Heffernan Signs 3-Book Deal
Laura Heffernan has just signed a deal with Lyrical Press for a three-book contemporary romance series called GAMER GIRLS. The books will be linked but will feature a different game-playing couple in each. Book 1, set to publish in 2019, will feature a tabletop gamer...
read moreTHE JULIET SPELL Is Out Now!
I love this one. Pitch-perfect YA with the Hollywood-ready premise of a simple wish resulting in inadvertent time travel. I had to play Juliet. I'd studied the part, I gave great reading, even with Bobby staring at my butt the whole time. But had I been good enough to...
read moreHOLLYWOOD HOMICIDE Is Out Now!
Huge congrats to the next big name in the amateur sleuth game, Kellye Garrett! HOLLYWOOD HOMICIDE is out now and causing a lot of buzz. Here's what some have to say: Starred Review, Publishers Weekly Starred Review, Kirkus Starred Review and Debut of the Month,...
read moreJennifer Chen Tran has left Fuse
Jennifer Chen Tran has left the agency. She is not leaving publishing and is in the process of figuring out her next steps as an agent.
read moreConferences–What Are They Good For?
I've just had the good fortune to go to two conferences in a two-week period, and get to see clients at both of them. This in itself makes me inordinately happy. It's not at all unusual for an agent and his/her client to never meet in person. So to get to see, and...
read moreWelcome Holly R. Hughes to the Fuse Family!
During the 2016 Pitch2Pub contest, I came across a YA manuscript by Holly Hughes that I mostly loved. I was completely enthralled by about seventy-five percent of it and saw a lot of potential. The other twenty-five percent wasn't quite ready for prime time, but I...
read moreWelcome Joni Pope to the Fuse Family!
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a literary agent in possession of vintage Sweet Valley books, who grew up reading as much Judy Blume and Jerry Spinelli as she could get her hands on, must be in want of some clients who write great contemporary middle...
read moreInterview with client Lauren Allbright about her DIY book tour!
Lauren Allbright’s debut middle grade novel was published by Aladdin/Simon & Schuster in June. Recently, she embarked on her own DIY book tour called the “Just Show Up” book tour (#justshowupbooktour). Today we’re talking to Lauren about her “tour” and how it’s going.
read moreEVERYTHING WE LEFT BEHIND Hits the Wall Street Journal Bestseller List!
Congratulations, Kerry Lonsdale! EVERYTHING WE LEFT BEHIND reached #7 on the Wall Street Journal Bestseller List in its first week out! This comes right after news of Kerry's debut, the #1 Kindle and Wall Street Journal bestselling EVERYTHING WE KEEP, having reached...
read moreQ&A with Bestselling Author, Kerry Lonsdale!
Kerry Lonsdale is the #1 Kindle and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of the EVERYTHING series of suspense fiction. Her debut, EVERYTHING WE KEEP, reached over 1 million readers in the first year. The sequel, EVERYTHING WE LEFT BEHIND, came out last week from...
read moreBook Release: FIRST WATCH by Dale Lucas
Congratulations to Dale Lucas on the release of FIRST WATCH!
read moreKerry Lonsdale Inks 2-Book, 6-Figure Deal with Lake Union!
Big congrats to Kerry Lonsdale for making this week's top story in Publisher's Weekly's Book Deals column! Kerry signed a new 2-book, 6-figure deal with Amazon Publishing's book club fiction imprint, Lake Union. The first book, EVERYTHING WE GIVE, is due out in summer...
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