Tag Archives: debuts

Champagne for all!

My friend and fellow Heartlander Barb Stuber sold her first novel, a YA called CROSSING THE TRACKS!!!

Karen Wojtyla, executive editor at Margaret K. McElderry, a division of Simon and Schuster, and clearly a woman of extraordinary taste, says novel is lyrical and haunting, wrapped her in an embrace and spoke to her heart. And having read much of CROSSING THE TRACKS, I can attest to that. Put this on your MUST BUY list for 2010.

Congratulations, Barb and your wondeful agent Ginger Knowlton! May this be the first of many celebrations for your partnership!

Another debut book release!

And another good reason to get to a bookstore pronto!

Congratulations, Jody Feldman! [info]jodyfeldman  

Get out of the kitchen and soak up every second of this day!

 

 

Hark!

Get thee to a book store today and buy this: 


by my dazzlingly talented friend Elizabeth C. Bunce. 

In fact, don’t stop at one! Buy them for your mom, your best friend, your cousin in Sioux City! Buy them by the truckload and revel in the glory!

And if my incessant gushing doesn’t convince you, read these reviews:

http://misserinmarie.blogspot.com/2007/12/curse-dark-as-gold.html
http://sarahmillerbooks.blogspot.com/2007/08/curse-dark-as-gold-spoiler-free.html
http://www.yabookscentral.com/cfusion/index.cfm?fuseAction=books.review&review_id=11512

Now, don’t you want to read it? :)

Happy March, all!

 

Summarize your life in six words

Today Harper Perennial released Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure. You can find pithy contributions from Ned Vizzini (page 121), Gregg Easterbrook (page 117),  Aimee Mann (page 73), Harold Ramis (page 92) my own (page 68) and my two favorites by Joanna Sheehan (page 105) and HarperCollins editor Kate Hamill (page 211) . 

Other contributers include Stephen Colbert (page 137), Amy Sedaris (page 41), Daniel Handler (page 176), Nora Ephron (page 162), Joyce Carol Oats (page 128), Jonathan Letham (page 65), Deepak and Gotham Chopra (page 15), and more Famous and hundreds of wonderfully Obscure. Enjoy!

Class of 2K8 is in session

Today you can run out and buy 


I Heart You, You Haunt Me
by 

 

 

and 

The Opposite of Invisible by