THEN CAME LIFE, Geralyn Lucas
THEN CAME LIFE, Geralyn Lucas. From the cancer survivor and author of Why I Wore Lipstick…to My Mastectomy, the continuation of her life story, learning to live joyously after cancer. (Gotham/Penguin, Fall 2014)
Chef Holly Herrick’s Latest: The French Cook–Sauces
Charleston-based Holly Herrick is a Cordon Blue-trained chef. Here she discusses how cookbooks are her “children” (although she does have a dog). Her latest, first in a series of French cookbooks from Gibbs Smith, takes her back to her days in France where she learned to be a chef. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NvoNKUTfFns Holly is hard at work […]
Read of the Week: COUNTDOWN CITY, Ben H. Winters
The Last Policeman received the 2013 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original–along with plenty of glowing reviews. Now Detective Hank Palace returns in Countdown City, the second volume of the Last Policeman trilogy. There are just 77 days before a deadly asteroid collides with Earth, and Detective Palace is out of a job. With the Concord police force operating under […]
Do Your Homework to Land a Literary Agent
It never ceases to amaze me by 99% of the unsolicited queries we receive at the agency are doomed. Why? Because in so many cases, the writer clearly did not check our agency website and submission guidelines. And I’m assuming that if they are querying multiple literary agents (which, by the way, is OK), this […]
LOVE THE HOUSE YOU’RE IN, Paige Rien
Interior Designer and TV personality, Paige Rien’s LOVE THE HOUSE YOU’RE IN, a guide to transforming your house into a home you love, with 63 simple strategies and tips for creating a space that reflects your lifestyle and aesthetic. (Shambhala/Spring 2015)
Read of the Week: SUMMER SHIFT, Lynn Bonasia
Beach read pick for Woman’s Day and the New York Post Forty-four-year-old Cape Cod clam bar owner Mary Hopkins is stuck in the cycle of her seasonal business; overwhelmed by the relentless influx of new names and fresh young faces, she feels as if life is passing her by. In the first days of the […]
Guest Post from Debut YA Novelist L. Tam Holland
We invited Lindsay Tam Holland, author of The Counterfeit Family Tree of Vee Crawford-Wong, (July 2013 publication, Simon & Schuster)to share what inspired her first novel. Please also check out her website, www.lindsaytamholland.com. “I grew up in Hawaii, a white kid in a predominantly Asian community. Most of my friends through high school were of mixed […]
Sequel to Ashley Rhodes-Courter’s THREE LITTLE WORDS sold!
I first met Ashley Rhodes-Courter when she was 16. I represented her adoptive mother, Gay Courter, a wonderful commercial novelist, and nonfiction writer. Ashley had just won a contest sponsored by Scholastic for an essay on “What Harry Potter Means to Me.” As a child, Ashley had been in and out of foster homes from […]
Reading With Babies, Toddlers & Twos, Susan Straub & K.J. Dell’Antonia, with Rachel Payne
A guide to laughing, learning and growing together through books, including e-books and apps that are suitable for young children. “What a delightful guide! All book-loving parents of young children will find this resource to be invaluable.” – Gretchen Rubin, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project “If you care about fostering […]
Veteran Editor John Paine on Cutting Your Manuscript
Writers are understandably concerned when asked to trim their manuscript by a considerable degree. Yet the experience of cutting your manuscript with the help of an experienced editor need not be a painful one. An editor has the advantage of being a neutral outsider, not caught up in the countless whirling threads that consume an […]