Herrick
Holly Herrick In her ninth cookbook, Holly Herrick re-visits her passion, the wonderful, palatable world of Charleston cuisine and chefs. The New Charleston Chef’s Table (Globe Pequot Press, April 1, 2017) is an almost complete revision of the original, published back in 2009. In the latest version, Holly adds almost 75 percent new, fresh […]
Elaine Neil Orr at Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh, NC
Last night, April 9, Elaine Neil Orr launched A Different Sun (Berkley/Penguin), a novel about a young missionary woman who leaves her parent’s plantation to accompany her missionary husband to Africa, at a wonderful independent bookstore in Raleigh, Quail Ridge Books. Orr, who was born in Nigeria, where much of the novel takes place, was […]
Lady in Red
Last night, I had a great time celebrating with author, Lauren Kelly, a certified nutritionist who is also affiliated with the Bar Method in Montclair, N.J. Lauren’s friends through her a launch party to celebrate her first book, THE EVERYTHING WHEAT-FREE COOKBOOK (F&W Media). We got to sample her delicious Thai chicken skewers with peanut […]
Rabbi Israel Meir Lau Greets President Obama at Yad Vashem
I was honored earlier this week when Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, former Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi of Israel and author of the moving memoir, OUT OF THE DEPTHS, spoke to President Obama at Yad Vashem. Today, Rabbi Lau is mentioned prominently in a front-page article in The New York Times about the life and death of […]
Lunch in the Digital Age
Once upon a time, when I was an editor at Ballantine Books, Random House, I arrived at my favorite “neighborhood” restaurant to meet with a literary agent for lunch. I coveted the corner booth, which was quieter, more comfortable and afforded some privacy. The maitre d’ became very agitated. “Oh,” he said, “I’m afraid I […]
Can/should you be best friends with your agent and editor?
Here’s a little insider secret from someone who has been both an editor and an agent: make them love you! Yes, be shameless, authors! Your editor and agent can be your best allies. For some bizarre reason, some writers believe that an agent and even sometimes an editor is someone to be feared. Especially when […]
The Winged Herds Land at HarperCollins Childrens’
As announced in Publishers Weekly, we are thrilled that our fabulous client Jennifer Lynn Alvarez inked a 4-book deal for a new middle-grade series this week with Rosemary Brosnan and Karen Chaplin at HarperCollins Childrens’. Deals: Week of January 21, 2013. In Alvarez’s richly imagined world of THE WINGED HERDS OF ANOK the skies are […]
THE EVERYTHING WHEAT-FREE DIET COOKBOOK, Lauren Kelly CN
My adorable author, Lauren Kelly, certified nutritionist, proudly displaying her first hot-off-the-press cookbook. I’m not a wheat hater, but wheat belly does seem to want to take over my body, so I can’t wait to try the 300 recipes. They look so tasty, I don’t think I’ll miss the wheat at all! You can pre-order […]
Are Readers the New Curators?
” Readers are the new curators,” declares Smashwords’ CEO Mark Coker (Publisher’s Weekly, Dec 24 issue, “Miami Advice”). As publishers, authors and self-proclaimed “marketing consultants” continue to debate the value of traditional publishing vs. self-publishing, it is easy to embrace the advantages of the latter, a route without encumbrance–especially if you have never been published […]
I Believe in NaNoWriMo
—A Guest Post from Melissa F. Olson, whose debut DEAD SPOTS was just published by 47North For thirteen years now, a small non-profit organization based out of SanFranscisco has transformed the otherwise boring month of November into National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo for short), which is, as they put it, “thirty days and nights of […]