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Inside Scoop: Dish From a Literary Agent Intern – More on Queries
For my second official blog post as Linda’s intern I’ve decided to write about queries. I know, you’re thinking another query blog? Well, yes! Because no matter how many times the specifications of...
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Happy Intrepid Explorer Day!
So, today is Columbus Day, which if you live in the New York area anyway, pretty much only means the kids are off from school. In other parts of the country, and all over the world, it doesn’t even...
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A Weekend of Peace, Love & Writing
This weekend I was a mentor at the Rutgers University Council on Children’s Literature One-on-One Plus Conference. This is the third time I was invited and attended this conference and I was really...
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Quick Questions: An Interview with Editor Andrew Harwell
I’d like to thank Andrew Harwell for agreeing to be the first person in my new Quick Questions series! Andrew is an editor at HarperCollins and a children’s book writer. He lives in Brooklyn, as...
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An Agent In the Wild
Just to keep things in perspective, dear readers… I dropped everything and went to Texas last week because my dad landed in the hospital. My folks moved out of New York over 20 years ago and although I...
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Inside Scoop: Dish From a Literary Agent Intern on being Gracious
As Thanksgiving approaches, I thought it would be nice to write something in line with the spirit of the season. I think of this season as a time to be thankful and grateful and for me that also means...
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Quick Questions: An Interview with Editor Liesa Abrams
This month’s Quick Questions guest is Liesa Abrams. Liesa is VP, Editorial Director, Simon Pulse/Associate Editorial Director, Aladdin, which are imprints of Simon & Schuster Children’s Books. At...
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How to Be Thankful, in 5 Easy Steps
Step 1: Before trying to give thanks, forgive <fill in the blank> for whatever they’ve done/not done and/or whatever you think they’ve done/not done. It actually doesn’t make a difference which...
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Quick Questions: An Interview with Editor Connie Hsu
This month’s Quick Questions interview is with Connie Hsu, a senior editor at Roaring Brook Press, an imprint of Macmillan USA. Connie acquires and edits everything from picture books to YA and...
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Holiday Presents for Writers and Readers: Book Give-away! Skype With an Agent!
Watch the blog next Monday, December 15th In the spirit of the holiday season, we will be giving away gifts! First of all, we have an ARC of client Bill Konigsberg’s THE PORCUPINE OF TRUTH, (Arthur A....
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Inside Scoop: Dish From a Literary Agent Intern – Contest Time!
This week I present to you a contest of epic proportion… or rather marginally small proportion, with a few exciting giveaways. ‘Tis the season for blaring Holiday music, over packed stores and chaotic...
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Inside Scoop: Dish from a Literary Agent Intern… And The Chosen Are!
Thank you to everyone who sent in their book spine poetry for the contest. Your creativity and participation were really wonderful and made it that much more difficult for me to choose just 5 of you!...
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Happy Holidays!
I’m so lucky! I got the best Hanukkah gifts ever. No, really. My daughter brought me home Neil Gaiman’s The Sleeper and the Spindle, all the way from Australia where she spent the semester abroad. My...
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Fare thee well, 2014!
2014 will be relegated to memory this week, and I for one won’t be sorry to see it go. As with many memories, I’m going to choose to look at the positive, glass half full, and all that. But no …...
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What I’m looking for in 2015
This is always such a difficult post to write, trying to encapsulate in a blog post “what I’m looking for” in a manuscript. Six months from now I might feel differently. I might even feel differently...
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Quick Questions: An Interview With Editor Stacey Barney
For our first Quick Questions interview of the year, we’re talking to Stacey Barney, Senior Editor at Penguin/Putnam Books for Young Readers. Stacey acquires a wide range of middle grade and young...
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New Look for The Jennifer DeChiara Literary Agency!
I am very pleased and proud to direct you all to my agency’s new website jdlit.com! We’ve got a new online look but (of course!) we’re still pretty in pink. Please note that not all of my clients are...
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Books I’m Looking Forward to in 2015
Happy Groundhog’s Day! I’m afraid Punxsutawny Phil saw his shadow this morning and here in the Northern Hemisphere we’re in for another six weeks of winter, folks. (By the way, how weird is Groundhog’s...
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Quick Questions: An Interview with Executive Editor Lisa Yoskowitz
Lisa Yoskowitz is an Executive Editor at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, where she edits middle grade and YA fiction from authors including Pseudonymous Bosch and Melissa Marr. She recently...
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Inside Scoop: Dish From a Literary Agent Intern… 5 Sites to Help You Write!
Sometimes we need to get by with a little help from our friends; and sometimes our friends are bloggers, online publications, websites or just the internet in general. There is always something on the...
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