Blog Archive
-
Working with International Clients
May 30, 2018
BookEnds has a huge number of international clients which made this question easy to answer, Jessica, how does this work with your international clients? Are there options in these cases or is email really the only one (because of time differences and international call costs)? Working with international clients is no different from working with […]
View More -
Welcome to BookEnds, Jessica Kulekjian!
May 29, 2018
Tracy and James are thrilled to be welcoming Jessica Kulekjian to BookEnds! Jessica immediately pulled us in with her gorgeous picture book voice and unique narrative non-fiction. We also love how Jessica thinks about how her books can be used in the classroom, and look forward to helping put her books in the hands of […]
View More -
Anatomy of a Book Deal: Inside the Publishing House
May 29, 2018
Thank you again to Heather Webber for coming up with the idea for this great series. Anyone looking to design an author website should take a look at hers. It’s gorgeous. Today Heather asked me to talk about what happens once an editor is interested in your book. Now that your agent has researched editors […]
View More -
Welcome to BookEnds, Steven Salvatore!
May 25, 2018
BookEnds welcomes YA author Steven Salvatore! Tell us a bit about your writing process. Where do you write, and how often? My process is strange. When an idea comes to me, I spend days thinking about it. I’ll write down a few sentences that capture the essence of the idea in the moment, but nothing […]
View More -
Further Defining #OwnVoices
May 24, 2018
Thank you to a reader for asking this important question. This is a serious question but I see nowhere to send you direct questions. My friend, who is Pakastani, has an MS that is half-finished, it’s a suspense novel that takes place in Pakistan. She wants, however, to get it published here. I told her […]
View More -
Welcome to BookEnds, Michaela Schuett!
May 23, 2018
Funnily enough, another BookEnds client brought Michaela to my attention. I was instantaneously drawn to her art and the bright colors. My brain immediately started planning! Tell us a bit about your drawing process. Where do you draw, and how often? My background is in graphic design, so nearly all of my illustrations are […]
View More -
The Anatomy of a Book Deal: The Pitch
May 23, 2018
In my continued series of The Anatomy of a Book Deal, a suggestion by author Heather Webber, I’m going to talk a little about the pitch. Truthfully, pitching books for agents isn’t that different from how an author pitches a book. We write a query in the same way authors do. The one big difference […]
View More -
Defining #OwnVoices
May 22, 2018
In the past two years, #OwnVoices has become a popular hashtag on Twitter and in #MSWL and submission requests from agents. #OwnVoices means a book written by a member of the marginalized community from which it depicts. In other words, if you are writing a character from the LGBTQ community an #OwnVoices hashtag or description […]
View More -
This Month from BookEnds Jr… May 2018
May 21, 2018
We only have one great book publishing from #TeamBookEndsJr this month, but it’s a good one! Take a look at Gwen Cole’s newest standalone YA novel: RIDE ON! The law can’t help her. But one outlaw can. In the near post-apocalyptic future, the skies are always gray and people are constantly searching for the […]
View More -
Welcome to BookEnds, Shafer Brown!
May 18, 2018
I am so excited to welcome Shafer on board! His art pulled me in and was so different than what I was usually drawn to. Here, take a look! What book do you wish you had illustrated, and why? Really supremely hard to choose from previously illustrated works, but today I’m wishing it was The […]
View More -
Agents Rejecting Queries
May 17, 2018
I hear feedback very similar to this comment quite a bit: Publishers and editors are looking for diverse stories written by diverse authors, yet when we submit our queries to Bookends’ agents all we get is “not the right fit” or “didn’t feel strongly enough to request pages”. This dismissal of our efforts is based […]
View More -
Welcome to BookEnds, Patti Kurtz!
May 16, 2018
I knew Patti had something special when I read her novel. For a girl who was never interested in competitive car racing, I was glued to the pages. It takes a special author to do that. Tell us a bit about your writing process. Where do you write, and how often? I try to write […]
View More