Introducing the Query Holiday
From Michael Stearns of Firebrand Literary
(agent interview)
The ability to write an amazing first chapter is a much more important skill, as a novelist, than the ability to write a good query letter. So as a gift for the holidays, we’ve decided to skip the query stage.
In celebration of the ten-year anniversary of www.cynthialeitichsmith.com, I asked some established authors–folks I’d featured early on–a few questions about what they’ve learned over the past decade.
What are the most important lessons you’ve learned about your craft?
A decade ago, I had yet to land my first children’s book contract for The Sea Chest (Dial,
From Caroline Mercurio, Managing Editor, Hunger Mountain, The Vermont College Journal of Arts & Letters Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Who’s the writer on your gift list? Join us for the Hunger Mountain Holiday Fundraising Auction, featuring manuscript critiques with notable authors and limited edition letterpress broadsides.
All items will be available at Caroline’s Hunger Mountain Store,
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Enter to win a copy of Through the Wardrobe: Your Favorite Authors on C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia edited by Herbie Brennan (BenBella, 2008)(PDF excerpt)! Read an interview with Herbie. From the promotional copy:
Why is Prince Caspian the ultimate teenager?
What does Narnia have to do with the Nazis?
C. K. Kelly Martin on C. K. Kelly Martin: “C. K. Kelly Martin graduated from York University in Toronto with a film studies degree. She moved to Ireland in 1992 and began writing there in 1999.
“Her first book, I Know It’s Over, was published this September with Random House.
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Here’s a sneak peek at the cover art and flap copy to Eternal (Candlewick, Feb. 2009):
At last, Miranda is the life of the party: all she had to do was die.
Elevated and adopted by none other than the reigning King of the Mantle of Dracul, Miranda goes from high-school theater wannabe to glamorous royal fiend overnight.
Continue Reading Eternal by Cynthia Leitich Smith — Feb. 2009: Cover, Info, Excerpt, Countdown »
Elizabeth Law [pictured] began her career in children’s publishing as an assistant at Viking Children’s Books, leaving 18 years later as associate publisher of both Viking and Frederick Warne imprints.
After nearly four years as vice president and associate publisher of Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, Elizabeth joined Egmont USA last year as its publisher.
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The Greenhouse Literary Agency – the transatlantic children’s agency run by former Macmillan UK Children’s Publishing Director Sarah Davies and owned by Working Partners – has appointed Julia Churchill to grow the British side of the business.
Churchill was formerly an agent with the Darley Anderson Agency in London where she built a strong reputation for spotting new talent in the children’s fiction area.
Continue Reading The Greenhouse Grows: Transatlantic Literary Agency Announces New Appointment »
In celebration of the ten-year anniversary of www.cynthialeitichsmith.com, I asked some established authors–folks I’d featured early on–the following question:
Over the past decade, what are the most important lessons you’ve learned about your craft, the writing/artistic life, and/or publishing, and why?
Here’s the latest reply, this one from Jane Kurtz:
In the past decade,
Enter to win one of two autographed copies of Shift by Jennifer Bradbury (Atheneum, 2008). From the promotional copy: “When Chris Collins and Winston Coggans take off on a post-graduation cross-country bike trek, Chris’s hopes are high. He’s looking forward to seeing the country, dodging a dull summer at a minimum wage job, and having one final adventure with his oldest friend.
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