David Monagan’s IRELAND UNHINGED pubs today in time for St. Patrick’s Day
Fittingly, today marks the official publication for expat journalist David Monagan’s whose IRELAND UNHINGED: Encounters with a Wildly Changing Country releases from Council Oaks Books. A rollicking and penetrating look at how the boom-and-bust of the last decade has impacted the very heart and soul of modern Ireland, this is a must-read for anyone with Irish […]
I TWEET, THEREFORE I AM!
I TWEET THEREFORE I AM I have to confess, until recently, I didn’t quite understand what all this fuss about Twitter was. I felt I had to tell authors to do it because I knew that publishers consider it to be a critical part of their platform and a key to marketing their books when […]
It’s no secret: Ms. Finkleman Rocks!
I’m thrilled to announce that Ben H. Winter’s THE SECRET LIFE OF MS. FINKLEMAN has been nominated for an Edgar Award for Juvenile Fiction! The award, sponsored by the Mystery Writers of America, honors the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television and is named for Edgar Allan Poe. This year marks the 202nd anniversary […]
I HAVE TO KVELL!
What a start to the New Year! I have to confess, I’m in love with my books. By “my,” of course, I’m referring to the agency’s latest and greatest. But for today, I will focus on one very special book and author. Philip Freeman, respected historian and raconteur extraordinaire, has outdone himself with his glorious […]
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Launching into 2011 It’s pretty much commonly accepted now that 2010 was, as Sourcebooks Founder and digital media maven Dominique Raccah has stated, the year when publishers finally really woke up to the extraordinary potential of digital media. Sales of e-books soared in the second half of the year, and with a record number of e-readers […]
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Before You Try to Get an Agent, Ask Yourself: As an agent, I see proposals and manuscripts at all stages. Some of them are just a glimmer of an idea hidden inside a lot of text; some are polished to a gleam, ready to be sent out to publishers. Often it’s difficult to see the […]
BUILD A PLATFORM–AND THEY WILL COME…
“If you build it, they will come…” That proves to be true about a baseball diamond carved out of a cornfield in Iowa in William Kinsella’s novel, SHOELESS JOE, which became FIELD OF DREAMS, the film. And it is equally true for authors about creating and sustaining a platform. The word “platform” began rearing its head […]
PSYCHOLOGIST AUTHOR AND OCD EXPERT TO BE HONORED
Jonathan Grayson, Ph.D., Director of the Anxiety and Agoraphobia Treatment Center and an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Temple University Medical School, will be awarded a “Lifetime Achievement Award” at the next meeting of the Annual Conference of teh International OCD Foundation. This will be the second time that Dr. Grayson will receive this […]
The Best Law Book of the Year
Congratulations to John Temple, author of The Last Lawyer: The Fight to Save Death Row Inmates, which has won The American Society of Legal Writers’ 2010 Book of the Year. The book follows the story of Bo Jones, and begins in 1987 when an elderly bootlegger was shot to death in Duplin County, a poor […]
Summer Beauty at Home, by Susan Campos
What could be better than Botox? A few years back I wrote an article for the New York Times Magazine about Raisa Ruder, a Russian born aesthetician who contended that her all-natural beauty potions could take on Botox any its ilk any day. Hollywood agreed: Raisa has used her Ukrainian grandmother’s tried-and-true recipes on everyone […]