Blog Archive
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Deal News for Stacy Henrie!
Feb 09, 2016
Stacy Henrie’s CLAIMING THE OUTLAW’S HEART, in which a Pinkerton detective is trying to take down a gang of train robbers by impersonating his twin brother, an infamous train robber, but there’s a hitch in his plans when the gang robs a train and a determined dime novelist demands they take her with them so […]
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A Lesson in Patience
Feb 09, 2016
The publishing industry as a whole spends a lot of time telling authors to be patient. It’s a necessary virtue in a business that can move at a glacial pace, and it’s a good skill to hone. Sometimes I think that agents in particular like to remind authors to be patient as we work through […]
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The Key to Queries: Short and Sweet
Feb 08, 2016
I just finished my pitch letter to editors, a query for you writers, and it took me one entire day. Okay, it took me all of Wednesday afternoon and most of Thursday morning. I wrote, rewrote and rewrote again. I had an email draft filled with discarded half sentences, picks from the author’s query, suggestions […]
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Meet Sheila Connolly
Feb 05, 2016
In anticipation of her upcoming book signing with Nora Roberts, Sheila Connolly did a great interview with The Herald Mail Media. You can meet Sheila on Saturday, Feb. 6, at Turn the Page Bookstore in downtown Boonsboro.
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Book Deals That Can Make an Agent Jealous #MSWL
Feb 05, 2016
I’ve been doing some research on Publishers Marketplace lately and came across a number of deals that grabbed my attention, books I would have loved to have repped or books that I’d love to see in my submission inbox. Here are just two that are making me hungry to hunker down and do nothing but […]
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A Great Week for Mystery Lovers
Feb 04, 2016
It’s common for me to be behind on my #pubday announcements. Probably because we often have so many titles release on the same day. So a joint congratulations to Lucy Arlington, Sheila Connolly and Amanda Cooper for three great new titles this week. Off the Books is the 4th in Lucy Arlington’s Novel Idea Mystery […]
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Huge congrats to Terrie Farley Moran on her #Agatha nomination!!!
Feb 03, 2016
We’re so pleased to announce that Terrie Farley Moran has been nominated for an Agatha Award for Best Short Story for “A Killing at the Beausoleil.” Last year, she won the Agatha for Best First Novel with Well Read, Then Dead. Congratulations to all of the nominees! We look forward to celebrating with everyone at […]
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Book Deals that Can Make a Literary Agent Jealous
Feb 03, 2016
Following in Jessica Faust’s lead, I’ve decided to share with you a deal I saw today on Publishers Marketplace that made me incredibly jealous I hadn’t found this book first: Benjamin Ludwig’s FOREVER GIRL, pitched as The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime meets Room, told from the perspective of an adopted autistic […]
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Scene of the Brine is now on sale!!
Feb 02, 2016
Congrats to Mary Ellen Hughes on the publication of her third Pickled & Preserved Mystery! The national bestselling author of License to Dill returns with a dilly of a pickle. Piper Lamb has to take a break from jarring her delicious pickles and preserves to blow the lid off a poisoner…. “A one-of-a-kind mystery with homemade […]
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Almost Midnight — the Shadow Falls novella collection from CC Hunter is on sale today!
Feb 02, 2016
Happy pub day to CC Hunter for her fantastic collection of novellas in the NYT-bestselling young adult series, Shadow Falls! Not only are all of the Shadow Falls e-novellas finally in print, but a brand new, never-before-published story, FIERCE, is included too! C. C. Hunter’s New York Times bestselling Shadow Falls series captured hearts […]
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The Grim Steeper by Amanda Cooper
Feb 02, 2016
Amanda Cooper, The national bestselling author of Shadow of a Spout invites readers back to the Finger Lakes town of Gracious Grove for more tea and murder…
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Deal news for Terri Reed!
Feb 02, 2016
Terri Reed’s A FAMILY UNDER THE CHRISTMAS TREE, in which a photographer with wanderlust comes home for the holidays and, with the help of her matchmaking grandmother and a mischievous puppy, finds love with the single dad next door, to Beth Adams at Howard Books, in a nice deal, for publication in Fall/Winter 2016, by Jessica Alvarez at BookEnds (World)
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