Ingredients of Successful Fiction: If Your Novel Doesn’t Sell, Consider This
From an agent’s perspective, selling fiction can be exciting, just plain fun or heartbreaking. Exciting because I can’t wait to tell editors about a story that moved me or kept me on the edge of my seat, characters I can’t forget, a setting that resonates, language that soars. Fun because fiction can be so engaging. […]
LETTERS TO PRESIDENT CLINTON: Biblical Lessons on Faith and Leadership, Rabbi Menachem Genack, Editor
This book celebrates a unique chapter in the annals of history: a remarkable correspondence between an American rabbi and the president of the United States–Menachem Genack and Bill Clinton–that spanned more than seventeen years and continues to this day. As Bill Clinton writes in the Foreword to the book: “The lessons embodied in LETTERS TO […]
ST. BRIGID’S BONES, Philip Freeman
When the bones of Brigid go missing from their church, the theft threatens to destroy all they have worked for. No one knows the danger they face better than Sister Deirdre. Trained as a bard and raised by a druid grandmother, she must draw upon all of her skills to find the bones before it […]
MOTHERS WHO CAN’T LOVE, Susan Forward
With Mothers Who Can’t Love: A Healing Guide for Daughters, Susan Forward, Ph.D., author of the smash #1 bestseller Toxic Parents, offers a powerful look at the devastating impact unloving mothers have on their daughters—and provides clear, effective techniques for overcoming that painful legacy. In more than 35 years as a therapist, Forward has worked […]
FAMILY TREES, Kerstin March
FAMILY TREES , Kerstin March. A contemporary debut novel set in a small town on Lake Superior, FAMILY TREES is about the roots we put down and what happens when life branches out in unexpected ways. UNTITLED NOVEL #2 is the sequel (World Rights/Kensington Publishing, 2015)
So you are a debut novelist…
I was thrilled this week to make a 2-book deal with Kensington Publishing for first time author, Kerstin March. I think this happy ending can be instructive for debut novelists, especially those writing mainstream women’s fiction or genre fiction, so I thought I’d share a little bit about how this came to be. Kerstin came […]
THE FRIENDSHIP LAB, Rob Garfield, PhD
A startling study–drawing on more than four decades of research in men’s “Friendship Labs”–reveals what is really in the hearts and minds of men, and demonstrates that men who are capable of emotional intimacy with male friends are happier and more successful in all of their relationships. Through powerful stories of men from many different […]
HER WILD OATS, Kathi Kamen Goldmark
A honky-tonk road story about two unlikely pals: Arizona Rosenblatt, a smart young woman who leaves home and her role as assistant to a high-powered Hollywood executive when she discovers her husband is having an affair with a woman from Jews for Jesus, and thirteen-year-old Otis Ray “Wild Oats” Pixlie, boy genius harmonica player. In […]
Learning from Rejection
Inevitably, no matter how strong or enticing a new project might be, I know that when I go out to sell, rejection is part of the process. It can be discouraging. No sooner do I contact editors, who often sound enthusiastic about considering a proposal or manuscript, then almost immediately, some “passes” stream in. As […]
Book of the Week: Main Street Vegan, Victoria Moran
Author and holistic health practitioner, Victoria Moran started eating only plants nearly thirty years ago, raised her daughter Adair a vegan from birth, and maintains a sixty-pound weight loss. In Main Street Vegan: Everything You Need to Know to Eat Healthfully and Live Compassionately in the Real Word, Moran, writing with her daughter shows us […]