Sep 29, 2014
If you’re a children’s book writer, you should be familiar with SCBWI. The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, or SCBWI, has loads of resources for new, aspiring, and established children’s book authors and illustrators. SCBWI is an...
Sep 22, 2014
It’s my favorite time of year, a time when the air turns crisp, everything is apple or pumpkin flavored, TV shows and movies have long-anticipated premieres, and many of the best books of the year hit the shelves. It’s the time when a pumpkin can mean...
Sep 17, 2014
A recent Publishers Weekly article began: “The category that drew sneers five years ago has become a full-on phenomenon.” I signed my first New Adult manuscript in early 2009 mostly as a passion project, but I could also see that undergrads and recent...
Sep 12, 2014
Who doesn’t love when fantastic things happen to talented people? All of us at Fuse Literary were beside ourselves with excitement when we found out that Allison Alsup, writer of a plethora of fiction, co-writer of last year’s The French Quarter Drinking...
Sep 10, 2014
Yesterday, we celebrated the release of Falling into Place by Amy Zhang (Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins). I’ve had a couple of people ask me how I “found” Amy and some are surprised to learn that she found me–through the query process. You...
Sep 8, 2014
Last time I wrote a blog post here it was about post-offer etiquette, but today let’s back up a little bit. Querying is HARD, and it involves a LOT of waiting. So when you get an email from an agent requesting a full (or a partial, all of this applies to...
Happy Book Birthday to THEY THOUGHT THEY BURIED US by NoNieqa Ramos