Category Archives: Industry News

Blue skies, the smell of caramel popcorn in the air, and books as far as I could see. It was a good day at the Collingswood Book Festival this Saturday. The Collingswood, NJ Book Festival is an annual event that … Continue reading →

  Today is an exciting day for my friend and critique partner, Jenn Hubbard. It is launch day for her young adult novel, The Secret Year.   I met Jenn, via the internet, a few years ago. Her novel, The … Continue reading →

Literary agency news: Chris Richman, along with Danielle Chiotti have left Firebrand and joined Upstart Crow Literary founded by Michael Sterns Helpful research links: http://www.archetypewriting.com/index.html    (this site will help you with understanding psychology. Deals with disorders, therapy techniques, jargon, and … Continue reading →

Margaret Halton is returning to the agency side of the business after work on an interim basis as adult rights director for Pan Macmillan. She is joining Rogers, Coleridge and White part-time, providing maternity cover for Laurence Laluyaux, the Bookseller … Continue reading →

From Publisher’s Lunch:(Hopefully I don’t make any typos, I just drew a henna design on my left hand and it is drying) -Barb Burg-former public relations director at Bantam Bell-launched Barb Burg Ink (public relations agency) -Kirby Kim, Rebecca Oliver, … Continue reading →

At the last conference I attended, I took a workshop in marketing presented by NJ’s SCBWI chapter’s president. My notes: * Published and unpublished authors need a website. Kathy was very insistent on this subject. She said it was an … Continue reading →

Found this site today   http://www.writersdigest.com/bea It’s a list of agents and what they are hoping to find. coll