Jul 27, 2017
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...
Jul 27, 2017
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...
Jul 20, 2017
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...
Jul 18, 2017
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...
Jul 14, 2017
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...
