I’m excited to welcome to the blog this week the Senior Vice President of Trident Media Group, Alyssa Eisner Henkin. Alyssa’s also offering a partial critique (open to cbs and mg) to one lucky winner (details follow the interview). 1) What's a day in the life...
About Joyce: Joyce Sweeney is the author of fourteen novels for young adults and two chapbooks of poetry. Her first novel, Center Line, won the First Annual Delacorte Press Prize for an Outstanding Young Adult Novel. Many of her books appear on the American Library...
I’m excited to welcome to the blog this week, agent extraordinaire, Jennifer Laughran of the Andrea Brown Literary Agency. About Jennifer: Jennifer is a Senior Agent at the Andrea Brown Literary Agency, where she has been repping authors since 2008. She represents select author-illustrators of picture books and graphic...
1) What's a day in the life of literary agent Adria Goetz like? I primarily work from my home office, which is about an hour south of Seattle in a Victorian farmhouse built in 1890. I wake up and have a cup of coffee with my...
About Alexandra: Alexandra Levick has worked with a wide range of established New York Times bestsellers, national award winners, and debut clients. After graduating from the University of Rochester with a degree in English focused on Creative Writing, Alexandra attended New York University where she...
About: I’m especially honored to welcome to the blog this week, my 2018 PBWWTS mentor, author, Pam Calvert. Pam Calvert is an author of children’s picture books, easy readers, and short stories. She has five picture books published with more on the way. Her newest book...
About Laurel: Laurel Symonds recently launched as a literary agent at The Bent Agency after nearly a decade of experience in the publishing industry. She began her career in the editorial department of HarperCollins Children’s Books/Katherine Tegen Books in New York City and has also...
About James: Since interning at BookEnds as an undergrad in the summer of 2015, James has (basically) never left. He's just continuously level-up-ed inside of BookEnds. Now he is the Literary Assistant and Social Media Manager for the team. James is a Staten Island native, and...
About Thao: Thao Le is a literary agent at the Dijkstra Agency since 2011. She represents Children’s (i.e. picture books by author-illustrators and middle grade fiction) and Young Adult across genres and in the adult realm is looking for romantic leaning Fantasy and Light Science Fiction. In...
I’m excited to welcome to the blog, author, Tara Lazar. Her most recently published picture book, 7 Ate 9, earned her the Crystal Kite Award and the Irma S. Black Award. Let’s dive in! You provide, via https://taralazar.com/category/7-ate-9/, some insight as to how 7 Ate 9 was...