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CLOUDS – A Memoir, by Laura Sobiech

Originally published as Fly a Little Higher and now updated and revised to coincide with the film release of Clouds, Laura Sobiech tells the amazing, true story behind the song and the movie. “Okay, Lord, you can have him. But if he must die, I want it to be for something big. I want someone’s life to be changed […]

What 4 top agents desire in a memoir

Thanks to veteran editor, Alan Rinzler, for including me in this insightful interview with some esteemed colleagues.  Memoir is so popular, but also challenging to publish.  Here’s what you might want to think about in relation to crafting and publishing a memoir. What 4 top agents desire in a memoir

Target select’s FLY A LITTLE HIGHER as first Holiday Book Club pick

We are so thrilled that Laura Sobiech’s memoir, FLY A LITTLE HIGHER, has been selected as the very first Target Holiday Book Club Pick this year! Starting December 2, 2014, a new special edition will be available exclusively at Target.  It offers a handful of special bonus materials, including in-depth Q&A with author Laura Sobiech and […]

Laura Sobiech talks to CNNs Bill Weir about FLY A LITTLE HIGHER

Laura Sobiech’s FLY A LITTLE HIGHER launched this week with a flurry of media attention and a starred review in PUBLISHERS WEEKLY which said, “Sobiech’s talent as a writer and love for her son are obvious. Her details ring true, not treacly, and the power of this book lies in its understatement of the faith […]

Sobiech

Laura Sobiech Becoming an author was not something Laura Sobiech ever intended to do. A Midwest wife and mother of four, Laura was living a pretty average life, raising kids, working two jobs and volunteering at her local fire department. Until one cold and rainy day in November 2009, her third child, Zach (14), was […]

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)

CLOUDS, Laura Sobiech

In this inspiring memoir Laura, the mother of Zach Sobiech, the teenager whose YouTube rendition of his original song “Clouds” went viral shortly before he died of cancer at 18, writes about her son, his simple philosophy of the importance of family, friends, love and faith, as well as, his clarion call that you don’t […]

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 […]