Adrienne Gelbart's Blog – July 2011 Archive (8)

YaLitChat Member Josin L.McQuein Book Deal: ARCLIGHT to Harper Collins

Greenwillow Takes McQuein Debut

Josin L. McQuein sold her first novel, Arclight, to Martha Mihalick at HarperCollins's Greenwillow Books imprint. Mihalick pre-empted North American rights to the YA novel in a two-book deal—a sequel is planned—from agent Suzie Townsend at FinePrint Literary Management. Townsend said the work is a dystopian thriller in which a teenage girl emerges as an unlikely savior from a "parasitic race" threatening to wipe… Continue

Added by Adrienne Gelbart on July 25, 2011 at 9:24pm — 2 Comments

Fall 2011 Sneak Peek

Here, via Publishers Weekly are the 2011 Sneak Peeks in Childrens Publishing...

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-book-news/article/48029-spring-2012-sneak-previews.html

Added by Adrienne Gelbart on July 22, 2011 at 12:30am — No Comments

YA Deals of the Week July 18'11

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

Added by Adrienne Gelbart on July 18, 2011 at 10:00am — 1 Comment

Vintage Photos Spark Fantasy About Quirky Children

How a collection of antique photographs from flea markets across the country sparked the story Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Author Ransom Riggs.…

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Added by Adrienne Gelbart on July 16, 2011 at 9:30am — No Comments

Lindstrom moves from Literary Agent to Publishing Services including Creative Management of e-Books.

Kristin Lindstrom has closed her agency, Lindstrom Literary Management, after 15 years to open a new business, Flying Pig Media. she will provide a range of publishing services to authors from craft/content editing to creative management of the electronic and print-on-demand books.

www.Flying Pig Media.com

Added by Adrienne Gelbart on July 11, 2011 at 12:57pm — No Comments

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