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Writing Kid Lit: Word Counts & the Age of Readers
Ok writers, let’s take a look at word count and the age of the reader for children’s books. For now I’m only going to focus on picture books, middle grade, and young adult fiction. Please understand...
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Literary Agents: 10 important things to know
Noun helping profession (plural helping professions) A profession that nurtures the growth of or addresses the problems of a person’s physical, psychological, intellectual, emotional or spiritual...
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Query Letters: Three Basic Things
A query letter is a business letter. Writing may be art but publishing is a business. As a writer you are the creator of a potentially sellable product. Being too weird or unprofessional in your...
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Delighted to be joining Emerald City Literary Agency!
Not only is today St. Paddy’s day, filled with rainbows, leprechauns on parade, pots of gold, green beer and green bagels (at least here in NY!), but it’s also the day I get to announce that I’ve...
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Looking for Diversity and #DVPit
I was recently interviewed on Lee Wind’s blog about being an agent who’s looking for diverse projects. Lee’s blog is called I’m here. I’m Queer. What the hell do I read? and it’s a veritable gold mine...
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Book Giveaway: GIRL MANS UP by M-E Girard
No, seriously, isn’t this cover amazing?! One of the things that’s so great about it is that if a queer kid is looking for a queer book they will definitely know this book is for them. I mean, of...
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Book Giveaway: THE PORCUPINE OF TRUTH by Bill Konigsberg
You know you want this book, right? It’s got all the things. A mystery. A road trip. The most beautiful girl. The most animal-less zoo. A discussion about god and a discussion about dogs. And the most...
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Book Giveaway: OPENLY STRAIGHT by Bill Konigsberg
It’s hard for me to explain why I love this book so much. It’s won multiple awards (including the Sid Fleischman Humor Award), and gotten great reviews, and went from hardcover to paperback, and made...
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Pondering How Women Writers Self Identify on Social Media
Last week I posed a question on Twitter. I asked, Women Writers of Twitter who put “mom” or “wife” in your profile, why do you do that? Besides “it’s part of who I am.” I want to understand. As you...
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Summer Internship
I’m looking for an intern for 15-hours/week for the summer. It would be 5 hours/week at my home office in Long Island, doing light office work, filing, organizing, screening queries, and some Internet...
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An Alternative Way to Check In On Your Writing Process
I do yoga once a week with my best friend. She comes to my house, we drink coffee and catch up on what’s going on with each other since last week, and then we do something called “The Five Tibetans” …...
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GLBTQ Pride Celebration Sale and Give-aways!
It’s no coincidence that a huge double rainbow was seen over New York City yesterday and here in Long Island where I live I saw a gigantic full rainbow, too. Because… June is National LGBT Pride month!...
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After Orlando: Stop the ride. I want to get off.
Shouldn’t everything just be put on halt? Shouldn’t the Tony awards be cancelled and Game of Thrones re-scheduled? We interrupt your regularly scheduled viewing because the world is such a fucked up...
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Stonewall Book Award winner for YA Literature
This morning, my client Bill Konigsberg accepted the Stonewall Book Award for young adult literature for his novel, THE PORCUPINE OF TRUTH. Here is the text of his acceptance speech. I am so very proud...
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Closed to unsolicited submissions (mostly)
Just want to let you all know that I’m closed to unsolicited submissions for a while. Although, as when I’ve closed to submissions in the past, you may still query me under certain circumstances: as a...
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“Never Have I Ever” for Writers
Rules of the game: I make a statement about writers or writing. Anyone who has done the thing that I’ve said, must take a drink (or whatever your vice might be). Warning – of course you must be legally...
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On Reading & Writing: When a Monster Calls in a Hotel Room
I was in Virginia at a writing conference this past weekend, doing critiques, meeting with authors, and being on a panel of agents, with the Mid-Atlantic SCBWI. There are so many things I can talk...
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Halloween Reads for Kids & Grownups
Happy Halloween, my friends! As not a spooky story lover, mostly, I support and applaud all of you who are less scaredy cat than I. I want to point you in the direction of All Hallow’s Read, which has...
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A Timeline Story
We begin: The Constitution of the United States of America was ratified by all 13 of the original states by 1790. We add color: The 15th Amendment to the Constitution, ratified February 3rd 1870,...
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A Letter to My Blog Followers
Hello, my lovelies, As so many of you are, I am devastated by the results of our election. It’s difficult for me to put words to the many thoughts and feelings I have. In all honesty, it’s been...
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