The Guardian Herd: Starfire pubs today!
We want to wish a happy book birthday to the one and only Jennifer Lynn Alvarez. Her fantasy-adventure middle-grade debut THE GUARDIAN HERD: STARFIRE pubs today. We can’t wait for you to meet Star and his friends, the pegasi of Anok. Book 2, STORMBOUND, is coming in April! “The typical fantasy tale of an ordinary […]
On This Day of Remembrance
WE ARE NOT LEAVING is the dramatic account–in their own words–of the events and consequences of 9/11 by the first responders. Editor Dr. Benjamin Luft, MD is a remarkable doctor who established the World Trade Center Medical Monitoring Treatment Center for first responders, to treat symptoms, both physical and emotional, that were consequences of their […]
Guardian Herd: Starfire highlighted in ABC Best Books for Children
We’re so pleased that Jennifer Lynn Alvarez’s middle-grade debut The Guardian Herd: Starfire (pubbing September 23rd from Harper Children’s) has been chosen for the prestigious ABC Best Books for Children 2014. Of 1000’s of books considered only 200 are chosen. Congratulations Jennifer! ABC Best Books for Children Announcement
Kathi Kamen Goldmark’s HER WILD OATS, tonight, September 3, 7pm, Oakland, California
SAM BARRY, GUY JOHNSON, FRANCES DINKELSPIEL AND PEGGY ORENSTEIN presenting and reading from Kathi Kamen Goldmark’s “Her Wild Oats” at Montclair Presbyterian Church Start: Sep 3 2014 7:00 pm The late Kathi Kamen Goldmark’s husband Sam Barry brings a panel of local authors together at Montclair Presbyterian Church to celebrate the publication of her book, […]
TALK TO YOUR AGENT
The relationship between author and agent is such a central one. There’s loads of information out there about how to get an agent to represent you, but much less information about what to do with the relationship once it has been established. Your agent is not simply a person who pitches your book, sells it […]
Starred Review in Library Journal for Geralyn Lucas’ THEN CAME LIFE
Lucas, Geralyn. Then Came Life: Living with Courage, Spirit, and Gratitude After Breast Cancer. Gotham. Oct. 2014. 240p. ISBN 9781592408955. $27; ebk. ISBN 9780698162181. HEALTH Lucas made a splash with her first book, Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy (LJ 9/1/04), the brash and brazen tale of her bout with breast cancer at age […]
What’s an Agent to do in August?
August always presents a quandary, at least to this agent. None of us is immune to the slowdown during the summer, and August is when we really feel it. You reach out to an editor only to receive an “out of office” message. The contract for a book doesn’t arrive because the contracts person is […]
BLOOD IN SNOW, by Robert Evert, now available on Net Galley
For the final installment in the epic RIDDLE IN STONE saga, click here: https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/show/id/49489
Shakespeare Reading with Linda Bamber
Tufts professor and author Linda Bamber will be reading from her recent collection of Shakespeare stories, Taking What I Like, “No Holds Bard”: Contemporary Work Inspired by Shakespeare” tomorrow night, June 18, 7:30 pm, at Medicine Show Theater, 549 West 52nd St. (near 11th Ave), NYC.
Laura Sobiech speaks with Katie Couric about her inspiring son Zach 1 year after his death
Laurie Sobiech visited with Katie Couric yesterday to talk about Zach’s life and legacy a well as her new book FLY A LITTLE HIGHER, which is soaring up the charts. If you missed the show, here is the link!