It has been a big week for Middle Grade, Picture Books and Young Adult Deals....

 

Children's: Middle grade

Judith Roth's SERENDIPIKITTY, a novel-in-verse about a motherless girl who must overcome her father's objections to her owning a cat, to Joy Peskin at Viking Children's, by Stephen Fraser at Jennifer DeChiara Literary Agency (World).



Children's: Picture book

Newbery Medalist Neil Gaiman's CHU'S DAY, illustrated by Adam Rex, in which a baby… Continue

March 24th, 2011

Children's: Young Adult

USA Today bestselling self-published ebook phenomenon Amanda Hocking's WATERSONG series, to Rose Hilliard at St. Martin's, in a four-book deal, at auction, reportedly for over $2 million, for publication…

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Here are the YALITCHAT Member Book Deals of the Week - January 24th, 2010.

Thanks to Elle for watching out for them!

January 14, 2011

Children's/Young Adult

Debra Driza's debut, a three-book sci-fi thriller series, to Claudia Gabel at Katherine Tegen Books, in a very…

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With the holidays over, the publishing world is waking up and it's shaping up to be a great first quarter in the opening month of 2011. Per Publishers Weekly the following deals in our beloved YA genre took place in the last few weeks, three just this week.

 

Knopf Children's Books editor Erin Clarke bought world rights to Elizabeth LaBan's YA novel, Blind Love, from Uwe Stender at TriadaUS Literary Agency. The book, scheduled for 2012, is set in a ritzy private school and…

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James Frey? Who is James Frey? Oprah Book Club......memoir scandle? Ring any bells? Well, James Frey's first novel 'A Million Little Pieces' was published and a part of Oprah's coveted book club, selling eight million copies worldwide. Riding the wave of memoirs, popular back in 2003, until it fell from the sky.

Frey was found and proved to have used fictitious memories in his 'solid' memoir



Follow the link to see the new scheme from James Frey, teetering, if not fully over the… Continue