tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79988671672822951052024-02-06T21:18:13.689-05:00JVNLA BlogJean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16339959791717944880noreply@blogger.comBlogger177125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998867167282295105.post-2076683106585678592015-08-04T13:33:00.001-04:002015-08-04T13:33:18.523-04:00Introducing our Tumblr page!We hope you've been enjoying the summer! If you're a regular visitor to our JVNLA sites, you may have noticed that our <a href="http://jvnla.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Tumblr blog</a> has recently taken over our former blog space on our website. <a href="http://jvnla.com/our_blog" target="_blank">Check it out here</a> in all its lovely glory!<br />
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The Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc.Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16339959791717944880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998867167282295105.post-5775144616567109192015-04-30T12:34:00.001-04:002015-04-30T12:34:28.258-04:00Award-winning poet Nancy Willard reads from SWIMMING LESSONS for National Poetry MonthCelebrated author <a href="http://www.feedyourneedtoread.com/contributor/nancy-willard/" target="_blank">Nancy Willard</a> writes adult poetry and fiction as well as kids' books and is a National Book Award finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, and Newbery Medal recipient. Many of her backlist adult books were republished last year with Open Road, including the book of selected poetry <a href="http://www.feedyourneedtoread.com/ebook/swimming-lessons/" target="_blank"><i>Swimming Lessons</i></a>.<br />
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In celebration of <a href="http://www.poets.org/national-poetry-month/home" target="_blank">National Poetry Month</a>, Open Road produced a video of Nancy Willard reading from one of her poems in <i>Swimming Lessons</i>, "Questions My Son Asked Me, Answers I Never Gave Him." The video below pairs Nancy reading with striking images of nature and family life that reveal the poem's beauty and complexity.<br />
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Below is a brief excerpt of<i> </i>the poem. Check out the video for more!<br />
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<i>Questions My Son Asked Me, Answers I Never Gave Him</i><br />
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1. Do gorillas have birthdays?<br />
<i>Yes. Like the rainbow, they happen.</i><br />
<i> Like the air, they are not observed.</i><br />
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2. Do butterflies make a noise?<br />
<i>The wire in the butterfly's tongue</i><br />
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<i> Some men hear butterflies</i><br />
<i> even in winter.</i><br />
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3. Are they part of our family?<br />
<i>They forgot us, who forgot how to fly.</i><br />
<br />Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16339959791717944880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998867167282295105.post-6504370941517764192015-04-20T17:43:00.001-04:002015-04-20T17:45:28.551-04:00Fascinating World War-era historical novels for your spring reading pleasureMarch brought the release of two fascinating World War-era historical novels that have received stellar praise: <i>The Empire of the Senses</i> by <a href="http://www.alexislandau.com/" target="_blank">Alexis Landau</a>, a novel about passion and family in volatile Berlin, and <i> Mademoiselle Chanel</i> by <a href="http://www.cwgortner.com/" target="_blank">C.W. Gortner</a>, chronicling the turbulent life of the iconic fashion designer.<br />
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<i>The Empire of the Senses</i> (<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/book/241329/the-empire-of-the-senses-by-alexis-landau#praise" target="_blank">Pantheon</a>) was one of <a href="http://booklistonline.com/Top-10-Historical-Fiction/pid=7429937" target="_blank"><i>Booklist</i>'s <b>Top 10 Historical Fiction</b> titles for 2015</a>. In a <a href="http://booklistonline.com/The-Empire-of-the-Senses-Alexis-Landau/pid=7145957" target="_blank">starred review</a>, <i>Booklist</i> called the novel a "top-notch literary saga with a gripping plotline" and wrote, "the characters’ actions and thoughts are so three-dimensionally human that readers may forget they’re reading fiction and not experiencing their real lives alongside them."<br />
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The book also received a full-page feature spread in <i>Jewish Book World</i>, complete with an <a href="http://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/_blog/The_ProsenPeople/post/interview-alexis-landau/" target="_blank">interview</a> with Landau and a <a href="http://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/the-empire-of-the-senses-a-novel" target="_blank">glowing review</a>. Reviewer Becca Kantor called <i>The Empire of the Senses</i> a “riveting debut,” a “sweeping yet intimate portrait of pre-World War II Berlin,” full of “evocative prose, attention to detail, and meticulous research." She ended with the assertion, “<i>The Empire of the Senses </i>is sure to establish Alexis Landau as a masterful new literary voice.”<br />
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In her interview with <i>Jewish Book World</i>, Landau discusses the influence of art and Jewish identity on the book. She also offers some writerly tips. Below is a brief excerpt of Landau discussing how she honed the time period details so they were just right; read the full interview <a href="http://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/_blog/The_ProsenPeople/post/interview-alexis-landau/" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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One of my best friends, who is an editor, told me, "The most important thing is tone, and getting the tone right, and not having your contemporary voice barge in." When I was writing, especially in the beginning, I was really conscious of that. I can't write well unless I understand every aspect of a person. Not just what they're experiencing psychologically, but also their body in time and space." </blockquote>
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Internationally bestselling author C.W. Gortner's <i>Mademoiselle Chanel</i> (<a href="http://www.harpercollins.com/9780062356406/mademoiselle-chanel" target="_blank">William Morrow</a>) recently made the <b><a href="http://www.bookweb.org/national-indie-bestsellers_extended-hardcover-fiction/2015-04-02%2000%3A00%3A00" target="_blank">ABA National Indie Bestseller</a></b><a href="http://www.bookweb.org/national-indie-bestsellers_extended-hardcover-fiction/2015-04-02%2000%3A00%3A00" target="_blank"> list</a>!<br />
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Gortner was also featured in <i>Glamour</i> as a <a href="http://www.glamour.com/entertainment/blogs/obsessed/2015/03/new-novels-march-2015" target="_blank"><b>Best New Novel out in March</b></a>. The <i>Glamour</i> book editor offered glowing praise, saying, “<i>Mademoiselle Chanel</i> sucked me in by the pearls and never let go. Gortner’s imagining of the ultimate fashion icon is equal parts grit and glamour, painting a portrait of a woman who was hugely inspiring but by no means perfect. Oh, and if you can’t afford to visit Paris in peak springtime season, reading this book with a glass of wine is a decent substitute.” <br />
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<i>Mademoiselle Chanel</i> was also...<br />
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...featured in <i>USA Today</i> (<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2015/03/15/new-and-noteworthy/24465905/" target="_blank"><b>#1 under “New and Noteworthy”</b></a>)...<br />
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...named a <a href="http://www.stylebistro.com/Book+Club/articles/79sD_pbdhds/StyleBistro+Book+Club+March+2015" target="_blank"><b>March Book Club pick</b></a> in <i>Style Bistro</i> (the editors paired the book with a little black dress as an inspired fashion find, and they assert that “<i>Mademoiselle Chanel </i>isn't like other things you've read” about Chanel; it “tell[s] Gabrielle Chanel's history in her own imagined voice and perspective”)...<br />
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...and chosen as the <a href="http://historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/mademoiselle-chanel/" target="_blank"><b>Editor's Choice Title</b></a> from the Historical Novel Society (their review is brimming with praise: “Gortner giv[es] us a complex story in which Chanel shines through as human, understandably prideful, blind when it served her purpose, vulnerable, and always chic and elegant. Beyond the effortless and easy flow of the narrative, there's a lot to love about this story...This novel...breathes Chanel's style and panache in every sentence”).<br />
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Don't miss these amazing books for your spring reading!<br />
<br />Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16339959791717944880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998867167282295105.post-48578766655701192402015-02-18T13:36:00.001-05:002015-02-18T13:36:53.742-05:00LOST IN TRANSLATION inspires book lovers' sharing of #stacksofbooksLast month, we decided to celebrate reading and JVNLA books with inspiration taken from <a href="http://www.untranslatablebook.com/" target="_blank">Ella Frances Sanders</a>'s <a href="http://jeanvnaggarliteraryagency.blogspot.com/2015/02/2014s-top-tens-and-best-ofs-nyt.html" target="_blank"><i>New York Times</i> Travel section bestseller</a> <i>Lost in Translation</i> (<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/book/239619/lost-in-translation-by-ella-frances-sanders#blurb_tabs" target="_blank">Ten Speed Press</a>, September 2014). <br />
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The book is a compilation of breathtaking illustrations of words that can't be translated into English. One of our--and other book lovers'--favorite words is <i>tsundoku</i>,the Japanese word for “leaving a book unread after buying it, typically piled up together with other unread books.”<br />
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So, we put out a call to our authors to post their pictures of stacks of books they wanted to read in the new year that they had piled up in their homes or offices, on their ereaders and phones, etc, and to share them via social media using the <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23stacksofbooks&src=typd" target="_blank">#stacksofbooks</a> hashtag. We asked other book lovers to respond with their own pictures, too!<br />
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The response was fantastic and full of fun insight into what people have on their to-read lists! Here's a sampling:<br />
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<a href="http://www.cwgortner.com/" target="_blank"><b>C.W. Gortner</b></a>, author of <i>Mademoiselle Chanel</i> (<a href="http://www.harpercollins.com/9780062356406/mademoiselle-chanel" target="_blank">William Morrow</a>, March 2015) <a href="https://twitter.com/CWGortner" target="_blank"><i>@CWGortner</i></a><br />
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<a href="http://mdwatersauthor.com/" target="_blank"><b>M.D. Waters</b></a>, author of <i>Archetype</i> (<a href="http://www.penguin.com/book/archetype-by-m-d-waters/9780142181140" target="_blank">Dutton</a>, 2014) <a href="https://twitter.com/_MDWaters" target="_blank"><i>@_MDWaters</i></a> - M.D. Waters tweeted stacks of physical books, ebooks, and audio books!<br />
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JVNLA founder <a href="http://www.jeannaggar.com/" target="_blank"><b>Jean Naggar</b></a>, author of <i>Sipping from the Nile</i> (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sipping-Nile-My-Exodus-Egypt/dp/1612181414/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1424216575&sr=8-1&keywords=sipping+from+the+nile+naggar" target="_blank">Lake Union</a>, 2012) <a href="https://twitter.com/twjnaggar" target="_blank"><i>@twjnaggar</i></a> - You can see some of our own books snuck in!: <i>The Bridal Chair </i>by Gloria Goldreich, <i>Our Picnics in the Sun </i>by Morag Joss, and <i>The Paying Guests </i>by Sarah Waters<br />
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<a href="http://www.sandraworth.com/" target="_blank"><b>Sandra Worth</b></a>, author of <i>Pale Rose of England</i> (<a href="http://www.penguin.com/book/pale-rose-of-england-by-sandra-worth/9780425238776" target="_blank">Berkley</a>, 2011) <a href="https://twitter.com/SandraWorth" target="_blank"><i>@SandraWorth</i></a><br />
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JVNLA President <b>Jennifer Weltz</b> <a href="https://twitter.com/JVNLA" target="_blank"><i>@JVNLA</i></a> - You can see our own <i>Lost in Translation </i>nearby!<br />
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<a href="http://www.nancyspringer.com/" target="_blank"><b>Nancy Springer</b></a>, author of <i>Drawn into Darkness </i>(<a href="http://www.penguin.com/book/drawn-into-darkness-by-nancy-springer/9780451239761" target="_blank">NAL</a>, 2013)<i> <a href="https://twitter.com/NancySpringer" target="_blank">@NancySpringer</a></i><br />
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<a href="http://www.bonniekistler.com/novels.html" target="_blank"><b>Bonnie MacDougal</b></a>, author of <i>Out of Order</i> (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Out-Order-Bonnie-Macdougal/dp/0345434447/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1424215372&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Ballantine</a>, 1999) <a href="https://twitter.com/PovBonnie" target="_blank"><i>@PovBonnie</i></a><br />
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JVNLA Literary Agent <b>Elizabeth Evans</b> <a href="https://twitter.com/EMEvans11" target="_blank"><i>@EMEvans11</i></a> - You can see <i>Dirty Chick</i> by Antonia Murphy peeking out! <br />
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<a href="http://www.fearfuladventurer.com/" target="_blank"><b>Torre DeRoche</b></a>, author of <i>Love with a Chance of Drowning </i>(<a href="http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/torre-deroche/love-with-a-chance-of-drowning/9781401341954/" target="_blank">Hachette</a>, 2013) <a href="https://twitter.com/FearfulGirl" target="_blank"><i>@FearfulGirl</i></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.izatrapani.com/" target="_blank"><b>Iza Trapani</b></a>, author of <i>Little Miss Muffet</i> (<a href="http://www.skyponypress.com/book/?GCOI=61608107085530&" target="_blank">Sky Pony Press</a>, 2013) <a href="https://twitter.com/IzaTrapani" target="_blank"><i>@IzaTrapani</i></a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/iza.trapani" target="_blank"><i>Iza on Facebook</i></a><br />
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JVNLA Literary Agent <b>Laura Biagi </b><i><a href="https://twitter.com/LauraJBiagi" target="_blank">@LauraJBiagi</a> </i>- You can see <i>Archetype</i> by M.D. Waters snuck in! <br />
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<a href="http://www.emmacampion.com/" target="_blank"><b>Candace Robb</b></a>, author of <i>A Triple Knot </i>(pen name Emma Campion) (<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/book/198777/a-triple-knot-by-emma-campion" target="_blank">Broadway</a>, 2014) <a href="https://twitter.com/CandaceMRobb" target="_blank"><i>@CandaceMRobb</i></a><br />
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JVNLA Contracts Manager <b>Tara Hart</b> <i><a href="https://twitter.com/Tara_Hart28" target="_blank">@Tara_Hart28</a> </i>- You can spot some JVNLA books, including <i>Gilded Cages </i>by Ellen Jones, <i>Dark Lie </i>by Nancy Springer, and <i>Wait...What?!: Life Advice from a Ghetto Genius </i>by J-Wunder<br />
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<a href="http://www.douglasmack.net/" target="_blank"><b>Doug Mack</b></a>, author of <i>Europe on Five Wrong Turns a Day </i>(<a href="http://www.penguin.com/book/europe-on-5-wrong-turns-a-day-by-douglas-s-mack/9780399537325" target="_blank">Perigee</a>, 2012) <a href="https://twitter.com/douglasmack" target="_blank"><i>@douglasmack</i></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.brendamarshallauthor.com/" target="_blank"><b>Brenda Marshall</b></a>, author of <i>Dakota, Or What's a Heaven For</i> (<a href="http://store.untreedreads.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=96" target="_blank">Untreed Reads</a>, 2010) <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dakota-Or-Whats-a-Heaven-For/131561463550563?v=wall&ref=ts" target="_blank"><i>Brenda on Facebook</i></a><br />
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JVNLA Assistant <b>Ariana Philips</b> <i><a href="https://twitter.com/ArianaPhilips" target="_blank">@ArianaPhilips</a> </i>- You can see our client Sarai Walker's <i>Dietland</i> snuck in, and <i>The Paying Guests</i>!<br />
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<br />Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16339959791717944880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998867167282295105.post-80174540988309463942015-02-02T18:04:00.001-05:002015-02-03T12:30:48.862-05:002014's "Top Ten"s and "Best Of"s, a NYT bestseller, and a winner of the most "Best Of"s prize!This year, JVNLA had seven books on a huge breadth of year-end “Top Ten” and “Best Of” lists! Including one book that topped lists ABOUT the top lists of the year: <i>The Paying Guests</i> by Sarah Waters. <br />
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<b><i>Lost in Translation</i> by <a href="http://www.untranslatablebook.com/" target="_blank">Ella Frances Sanders</a> (<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/book/239619/lost-in-translation-by-ella-frances-sanders#blurb_tabs" target="_blank">Ten Speed Press</a>, September 2014)</b><br />
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<b>Amazon</b> chose this gorgeous book of illustrations that depict untranslatable words for its <a href="http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=amb_link_426357402_8?ie=UTF8&node=10221836011&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-leftnav&pf_rd_r=1ZT7PV948YXF2RB11E7Z&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1968735602&pf_rd_i=10207069011" target="_blank">Best Books of the Year: Art and Photography list</a>!<br />
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<i>Lost in Translation </i>also recently hit the <b><i>New York Times</i> bestseller list</b> in the Travel section! It <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2014-12-07/travel/list.html" target="_blank">reached #6 in December</a> and <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2015-01-04/travel/list.html" target="_blank">climbed to #4 in January</a>. Congrats, Ella!<br />
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<b><i>Songs Only You Know</i> by <a href="http://seanmadiganhoen.com/" target="_blank">Sean Madigan Hoen</a> (<a href="http://sohopress.com/books/songs-only-you-know/" target="_blank">Soho Press</a>, April 2014)</b><br />
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In its list of <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/10-best-music-books-of-2014-20141222/songs-only-you-know-a-memoir-by-sean-madigan-hoen-20141222#ixzz3POzVM2CU" target="_blank">10 Best Music Books of 2014</a>, <b><i>Rolling Stones</i></b> spotlighted Hoen's “gritty, gripping punk-rock memoir” (as they called it), and heaped praise on it: "It's funny at times, always brutally honest; a half-healed bruise, tender and multi-colored. Few books convey the fever-pitch intensity of youth with such vividness and so little glamorization, or as deeply explore the heartbreaking complexity of family—both those we're born into and the ones we choose."<br />
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<b><i>This Is a Moose</i> written by <a href="http://jeanvnaggarliteraryagency.blogspot.com/search/label/Morris" target="_blank">Richard Morris</a> and illustrated by <a href="http://www.tomlichtenheld.com/" target="_blank">Tom Lichtenheld</a> (<a href="http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/richard-t-morris/this-is-a-moose/9780316213608/" target="_blank">Little, Brown Books for Young Readers</a>, May 2014)</b><br />
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Morris and Lichtenheld's picture book collaboration is about a moose being filmed in a nature documentary who just wants to be an astronaut (to the chagrin of the director). <b><i>Kirkus </i></b>named it to its <a href="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/issue/best-of-2014/section/children/?page=10" target="_blank">Best Children's Books of 2014 list</a>, calling it “a humorous—make that hysterical—homage to movies and big dreams.”<br />
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<i><b>Booklist</b></i> named it to its <a href="http://booklistonline.com/Booklist-Editors-Choice-Books-for-Youth-2014/pid=7275819" target="_blank">Editors' Choice: Books for Youth 2014 list</a>, raving that “this rambunctious picture book is stuffed with delightfully absurd chaos.”<br />
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<i>This Is a Moose</i> was also featured in <b>ABC</b>'s <a href="http://www.bookweb.org/news/titles-announced-2014-abc-best-books-catalog-order-deadline-september-1" target="_blank">Best Books for Children 2014 catalog</a>!<br />
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<b><i>The Swan Gondola </i>by <a href="http://www.timothyschaffert.com/" target="_blank">Timothy Schaffert</a> (<a href="http://www.penguin.com/book/the-swan-gondola-by-timothy-schaffert/9781594486098" target="_blank">Riverhead</a>, February 2014)</b><br />
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<i><b>The Kansas City Star</b></i> named <i>The Swan Gondola, </i>a "love story set at a steampunk carnival in turn-of-the-century Omaha, with a clever take on <i>The Wizard of Oz</i>" to their <a href="http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/books/article4431734.html" target="_blank">Best Books of 2014 list</a>!<b><i></i></b><br />
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<b><i>Archetype</i> by <a href="http://mdwatersauthor.com/" target="_blank">M.D. Waters</a> (<a href="http://www.penguin.com/book/archetype-by-m-d-waters/9780142181140" target="_blank">Dutton</a>, February 2014 hardcover, June 2014 paperback)</b><br />
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<b><i>Pop Sugar</i></b> featured this futuristic suspense novel reminiscent of <i>The Handmaid's Tale </i>on its <a href="http://www.popsugar.com/love/Best-Books-Women-2014-35351679?force_slideshow=1#photo-35351707" target="_blank">Best Books for Women 2014 list</a>!<br />
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<b><i>The Tyrant's Daughter </i>by <a href="http://www.jccarleson.com/" target="_blank">J.C. Carleson</a> (<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/book/221644/the-tyrants-daughter-by-jc-carleson" target="_blank">Knopf Books for Young Readers</a>, February 2014)</b><br />
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<b><i>Kirkus</i></b> named <i>The Tyrant's Daughter</i> to its <a href="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/issue/best-of-2014/section/teen/" target="_blank">Best Teen Books of 2014 list</a>, calling this YA about a girl whose family relocates to the US after her father is killed in a coup "smart, relevant, required reading." <br />
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<b>Amazon</b> also named it to its <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=lp_10221841011_pg_2?rh=n%3A283155%2Cn%3A!2334088011%2Cn%3A!2334119011%2Cn%3A10207069011%2Cn%3A10221841011&page=2&ie=UTF8&qid=1422047836" target="_blank">Best Books of the Year: Teen and Young Adult list</a>!<br />
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<b><i>The Paying Guests</i> by <a href="http://www.sarahwaters.com/" target="_blank">Sarah Waters</a> (<a href="http://www.penguin.com/book/the-paying-guests-by-sarah-waters/9781594633119" target="_blank">Riverhead</a>, September 2014)</b><br />
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In a unique “Top Ten” approach, <b><i>The Wall Street Journal</i></b> decided to look at ten “Best Of” lists to find the books most often at the top. They named the<i> </i>“suspenseful and sensual”<i> The Paying Guests</i> as <a href="http://graphics.wsj.com/best-books-2014/#best-of" target="_blank">the winner who appeared most often</a>! <i>The Paying Guests </i>is about a widow and her spinster daughter who must take in lodgers in 1922--though things are not nearly as simple as they seem. It won by appearing on the six below lists:<br />
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/books/review/100-notable-books-of-2014.html?_r=3" target="_blank"><b><i>The New York Times</i></b>'s Notable Books of 2014</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/the-10-best-books-of-2014/2014/11/20/40784e0a-3dc6-11e4-b03f-de718edeb92f_story.html" target="_blank"><i><b>The Washington Post</b></i>'s Best Books of 2014</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/29/-sp-writers-pick-best-books-2014" target="_blank"><i><b>The Guardian</b></i>'s Best Books of 2014</a>, chosen by various writers; Ruth Rendell chose <i>The Paying Guests</i>.<br />
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<a href="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/issue/best-of-2014/section/fiction/?page=13" target="_blank"><i><b>Kirkus</b></i>'s Best Fiction Books of 2014</a>; <i>The Paying Guests</i> was also <a href="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/prize/2014/finalists/fiction/" target="_blank">a finalist for 2014's Kirkus Prize</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/10828075/The-best-books-of-2014.html" target="_blank"><i><b>The Telegraph</b></i>'s Best Books of 2014</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/review/words-of-the-year-the-best-things-they-read-in-2014" target="_blank"><b>Barnes and Noble</b>'s Words of the Year: The Best Things They Read in 2014</a>, chosen by various writers; Michael Dirda chose <i>The Paying Guests</i>. Barnes and Noble also included <i>The Paying Guests</i> among its <a href="http://www.barnesandnobleinc.com/press_releases/11_18_14_bn_top_books_for_the_holidays.html" target="_blank">Top Fiction Books for the Holiday list</a>.<br />
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Beyond these, there is an incredibly lengthy list of places that included <i>The Paying Guests</i> as one of their “top ten” or “best of” books! Below is just a very brief sampling of some of the rest:<br />
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<a href="http://www.people.com/people/package/gallery/0,,20875012_20882507_30266127,00.html#30266123" target="_blank"><i><b>People Magazine</b></i>'s Ten Best Books of 2014</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.popsugar.com/love/Best-Books-Women-2014-35351679?force_slideshow=1#photo-35842598" target="_blank"><i><b>Pop Sugar</b></i>'s Best Books for Women 2014, the #1 pick!</a><br />
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<i><b>Entertainment Weekly</b></i>'s 10 Best Fiction Books of 2014<br />
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<a href="http://www.npr.org/2014/12/15/370338890/sometimes-you-cant-pick-just-10-maureen-corrigans-favorite-books-of-2014?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social" target="_blank"><b>NPR</b> Fresh Air's Maureen Corrigan's Favorite Books of 2014</a>; <i>The Paying Guests</i> was also front and center on <a href="http://apps.npr.org/best-books-2014/" target="_blank">NPR's Book Concierge, their Guide to 2014's Great Reads</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2014/11/best_books_2014_slate_staff_recommendations.html" target="_blank"><i><b>Slate</b></i>'s Best Books of 2014</a><br />
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<a href="http://seattletimes.com/html/books/2025210096_bestbooks2014xml.html" target="_blank"><i><b>The Seattle Times</b></i>'s Best Books of 2014</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/books/article4431734.html" target="_blank"><i><b>The Kansas City Star</b></i>'s Best Books of 2014</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=s9_dnav_bw_ir23_b?_encoding=UTF8&node=10207154011&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-5&pf_rd_r=1TVYENCJZEHVZ3DZWT5Q&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1968818082&pf_rd_i=10207069011" target="_blank"><b>Amazon</b>'s Best Books of the Year: Literature and Fiction</a><br />
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<br />Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16339959791717944880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998867167282295105.post-70944481657523102082014-11-25T17:28:00.001-05:002014-11-25T17:28:32.041-05:00A gorgeous gala for former Vogue editor turned OAfrica founder, Lisa Lovatt-SmithPublished this month from <a href="http://www.weinsteinbooks.com/book/book/9781602862708" target="_blank">Weinstein Books</a>, the memoir <i>Who Knows Tomorrow</i> tells the extraordinary, true story of <a href="http://www.oafrica.org/front_content.php?idcat=91" target="_blank">Lisa Lovatt-Smith</a>, who was handpicked by Anna Wintour to work at <i>Vogue</i>, rose quickly through the ranks as an international editor, then gave everything up to volunteer with orphans in rural Ghana. Finding the orphanage conditions appalling and abusive, Lisa founded <a href="http://www.oafrica.org/front_content.php?changelang=1" target="_blank">OAfrica</a> and dedicated her life and resources to improving conditions for hundreds of Ghanian children. <br />
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Lisa recently held a charity gala for OAfrica to coincide with her book launch at the Pierre Hotel in New York. It was full of celebrities, <i>Vogue</i> insiders, and fashion! All proceeds went directly to OAfrica (as do a portion of the book profits). <a href="http://www.oafrica.org/front_content.php?changelang=1" target="_blank">OAfrica's mission</a>, per its website, follows: <br />
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OAfrica empowers children and young people in need of care and protection because of institutionalization, abandonment, discrimination or abuse to become productive members of their communities. We accomplish this by strengthening families and reintegrating separated or at-risk children whose rights have been compromised due to poverty, violence, trafficking, and HIV/AIDS into safe, stable and loving environments. We work to keep families together, send children to school, keep mothers alive and protect children by transforming systems.</blockquote>
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Gala Chair, actress Rosario Dawson opened the event, which was sponsored and hosted by Valentino. An auction followed, and all guests received copies of <i>Who Knows Tomorrow</i>. In her speech, Lisa Lovatt-Smith spoke movingly about her work, and about having battled the HIV/AIDS epidemic and now facing the looming threat of Ebola.<br />
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Guests in attendance included actor Ben Stiller, model and actress Selita Ebanks, Nylon magazine Style Director Dani Stahl, fashion photographer Kelly Klein, DJ and model Leigh Lezark, Vensette founder Lauren Remington Platt, Valentino brand ambassador Carlos Souza, and many more.<br />
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<i>The New York Post's <a href="http://pagesix.com/2014/10/22/former-vogue-editor-talks-about-new-life-as-volunteer-in-africa/" target="_blank">Page Six</a></i><a href="http://pagesix.com/2014/10/22/former-vogue-editor-talks-about-new-life-as-volunteer-in-africa/" target="_blank"> featured</a> the event, <a href="http://www.avenuemagazine.com/2014/10/oafrica-celebrates-its-first-annual-charity-gala-with-rosario-dawson-and-lisa-lovatt-smith/" target="_blank">as did <i>Avenue Magazine</i></a>. To view the celebrities in attendance and the stunning designers they wore, <a href="http://www.avenuemagazine.com/photo-gallery/?post=oafrica-celebrates-its-first-annual-charity-gala-with-rosario-dawson-and-lisa-lovatt-smith" target="_blank">check out the photos here</a>:<br />
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<br />Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16339959791717944880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998867167282295105.post-30860569771041186562014-10-10T17:40:00.002-04:002015-02-02T18:13:24.736-05:00Newly minted NYT bestseller Sarah Waters's THE PAYING GUESTS is a "tour de force"We are so excited that <a href="http://www.sarahwaters.com/" target="_blank">Sarah Waters</a>'s <i>The Paying Guests</i> (<a href="http://www.penguin.com/book/the-paying-guests-by-sarah-waters/9781594633119" target="_blank">Riverhead</a>, October 2014) is a <i>New York Times</i> bestseller! It debuted at <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2014-10-05/hardcover-fiction/list.html" target="_blank">#12 last week</a>, hits <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2014-10-12/hardcover-fiction/list.html" target="_blank">#7 this week</a>, and will be <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2014-10-19/hardcover-fiction/list.html#" target="_blank">#9 next week</a>! This marks the first time one of Waters's novels--perennial bestsellers in the UK--has hit the US bestseller lists. Congratulations, Sarah!<br />
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<i>The Paying Guests</i> is also a <a href="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/prize/2014/finalists/fiction/" target="_blank">finalist for the inaugural Kirkus Prize</a> (winners to be announced October 23) and is an <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/files/nextlist/pdf/IndieNextList201410.pdf" target="_blank">Indie Next</a> and <a href="http://libraryreads.org/september-2014-libraryreads-list/" target="_blank">Library Reads</a> pick. It's hit <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/files/bsbl-0-1.xml" target="_blank">#8 on the Indie Bestseller List</a> and debuted at <a href="http://www.sarahwaters.com/2014/09/02/the-paying-guests-debuts-at-number-three-on-the-sunday-times-bestseller-list/" target="_blank">#3 on the UK <i>Sunday Times </i> bestseller list</a>. The regional US has been taken by storm as well, with <i>The Paying Guests</i> recently reaching #4 on the New England list, #8 on the Southern list, #13 on the Mountains and Plains, #7 on the Pacific NW, #7 on the Heartland, #6 for SoCal, #8 for NoCA, and #9 for New Atlantic.<br />
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So just how did <i>The Paying Guests</i> explode across the literary scene? <br />
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Part of its success has had to do with Riverhead's publishing team, which garnered extensive national coverage (see below) and <a href="http://www.penguin.com/author/view/books/sarah-waters/1000040656" target="_blank">completely repackaged Waters's five-book backlist</a> to echo <i>The Paying Guests</i>'s gorgeous cover. But, really, their efforts have only served to illuminate for the nation something anyone who reads Waters's books already knows: Sarah Waters is immensely talented and writes amazing, haunting, heart-stoppingly good novels.<br />
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<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2014/09/sarah_waters_the_paying_guests_reviewed.html" target="_blank"><i>Slate</i>'s review</a> describes Waters's particular talent perfectly: <br />
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Her six novels, beginning with <i>Tipping the Velvet</i> in 1998, could be called historical fiction, but that doesn’t begin to capture their appeal. It is closer to say that she is creating pitch-perfect popular fiction of an earlier time, but swapping out its original moral engine for a sensibility that is distinctly queer and contemporary, as if retrofitting a classic car.</blockquote>
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While Waters's previous books have taken place in Victorian- or 1940s-era England, <i>The Paying Guests</i> marks her first foray into the 1920s. It was a particularly rich and complex time in England, as Waters explains in her <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/10/books/the-paying-guests-by-sarah-waters-looks-at-1920s-britain.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Ar%2C{%221%22%3A%22RI%3A9%22}&_r=0" target="_blank"><i>New York Times</i> interview</a>: <br />
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“It’s that shift, that moment of modernity," Ms. Waters said. "The impact of the First World War was to shake things up enormously, loosening up old mores, fashions and behaviors. The early ’20s were like the waist of an hourglass. Lots of things were hurtling toward it and squeezing through it and then hurtling out the other side.”</blockquote>
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In <i>The Paying Guests</i>, as with all her books, Waters captures historical details so precisely it feels like you're living and breathing the 1920s the moment you open the book. Waters describes how she achieves this in a recent <a href="http://www.out.com/entertainment/art-books/2014/09/03/best-selling-author-sarah-waters-proving-lesbian-sex-sells" target="_blank"><i>Out Magazine</i> interview</a>:<br />
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“Just as we’re sitting here, the way our clothes feel, the things we can hear, all the food we’re eating—we don’t notice because it’s just a part of the fabric of our lives,” she says. “You have to think about those things that are so much a part of the fabric of your characters’ lives that they cease to notice them, and yet try to convey them to a reader quietly.”</blockquote>
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While a central plot point in <i>The Paying Guests</i> revolves around a crime, the book is about so much more. “I wanted to write a love story that’s complicated by a crime, not a crime story complicated by love,” Waters told <a href="http://www.vogue.com/1652639/sarah-waters-the-paying-guests/?mbid=social_twitter" target="_blank"><i>Vogue</i> in her recent interview</a>.<br />
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It's smart choices like this, combined with her retrofitting talent, historical precision, and more that have contributed to a simply must-read book. For a taste, check out the <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2014/09/11/sarah-waterss-the-paying-guests-read-an-exclusive-excerpt/" target="_blank"><i>Wall Street Journal</i> excerpt</a>. <br />
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And if, somehow, you still need convincing, here are only a portion of the glowing reviews:<br />
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"<b>Some novels are so good, so gripping or shattering</b> that they leave you uncertain whether you should have ever started them. You open <i>The Paying Guests</i> and immediately surrender to the smooth assuredness of Waters’s silken prose. Nothing jars. You relax. You turn more pages. You start turning them faster. Before long, you resemble Coleridge’s Wedding-Guest: You cannot choose but read. The book has you in thrall. You will follow Waters and her story anywhere. Yet when that story ends, you find yourself emotionally sucked dry, <b>as much stunned as exhilarated by the power of art</b>." --<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/michael-dirda-reviews-the-paying-guests-by-sarah-waters/2014/09/10/811596ac-351f-11e4-9e92-0899b306bbea_story.html" target="_blank"><i>The Washington Post</i></a> <br />
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“Will keep you sleepless for three nights straight and <b>leave you grasping for another book that can sustain that high</b>.” --<a href="http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20851936,00.html" target="_blank"><i>Entertainment Weekly</i></a>, <b>"A" rating</b> <br />
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<i>The Paying Guests </i>was also ranked <b>#3 on Entertainment Weekly's “Must” list</b>;
they called it “one of the year’s most engrossing and suspenseful
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“<i>The Paying Guests</i> is a knockout… As alert as Waters is to historical detail, she's also a superb storyteller with <b>a gift for capturing the layered nuances of character and mood</b>….Spellbinding…<i>The Paying Guests</i> is one of those big novels you hate to see end.” --<a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=348514539&live=1" target="_blank"><i>NPR</i></a> <br />
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"Perhaps Waters’s <b>most impressive accomplishment is the authentic feel she achieves</b>, that the telling—whether in its serious, exciting, comic or sexy passages—has no modern tinge. ..The story appears not merely to be about the novel’s time but to have been written by someone living in that time, thumping out the whole thing on a manual typewriter." --<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/books/review/the-paying-guests-by-sarah-waters.html" target="_blank"><i>The New York Times Book Review</i></a><br />
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“<b>[A] tour de force</b> of precisely observed period detail and hidden passions.” --<a href="http://online.wsj.com/articles/book-review-the-paying-guests-by-sarah-waters-1411156828" target="_blank"><i>Wall Street Journal</i></a><br />
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“<b>An exquisitely tuned exploration of class in post-Edwardian Britain—with really hot sex</b>...Waters is a master of pacing, and her metaphor-laced prose is a delight...As life-and-death questions are answered, new ones come up, and until the last page, the reader will have no idea what’s going to happen. Waters keeps getting better, if that’s even possible after the sheer perfection of her earlier novels.” --<a href="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/sarah-waters/paying-guests/" target="_blank"><i>Kirkus</i></a>, <b>starred review</b><br />
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“Dazzling. [Waters] can, it seems, do everything: the madness of love; the squalor of desire; the coexistence of devotion and annoyance; 'the tangle of it all'...At her greatest, Waters transcends genre...<b><i>The Paying Guests</i> is the apotheosis of her talent</b>.” --<i><a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/9f30e368-2303-11e4-8dae-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz3FlHMUjTQ" target="_blank">The Financial Times</a></i> <br />
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“Waters seems to revel in 19th and 20th century British history as a dolphin does in water: Her literary depictions of domestic life, manners, architecture, class structure, the weight of war and the volatility of love all appear <b>as effortless as they are beautifully executed…Moving and delicately wrought</b>.”--<i><a href="http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-sarah-waters-20140921-story.html" target="_blank">Los Angeles Times</a></i> <br />
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“Waters turns to the 1920s and delivers what feels like three novels for the price of one…a meticulously observed comedy of awkward manners… a story of torrid, forbidden trysts conducted behind a facade of conventional feminine respectability…[and] a tense tale of crime, mystery and suspense that culminates in a nail-biting courtroom drama…<b>Exceedingly difficult to put down, <i>The Paying Guests</i> should scratch the same big-novel itch that Donna Tartt’s <i>The Goldfinch</i> satisfied last year</b>.” --<a href="http://www.salon.com/2014/09/18/very_sexy_and_a_bit_alarming_sarah_waters_on_her_historical_thrillers/" target="_blank"><i>Salon</i></a><br />
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“<b>[A] delicious hothouse of a novel…There's palpable tension from page one</b>, so buckle up and prepare for a wild ride--one that's under perfect authorial control…Somehow, Waters pulls off this improbable feat with fine-tuned prose that's by turns crisply cool and pressure-cooker hot. <i>The Paying Guests</i> channels the past via E.M. Forster, Dickens and Tolstoy, quickened with a dollop of contemporary Dennis Lehane noir…This is a fever dream of a novel—Waters' best—that will leave you all wrung out.” --<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2014/09/20/the-paying-guests/15688123/" target="_blank"><i>USA Today</i></a> <br />
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“<b>[A] pulse-pounder of a novel that feels…personal and raw</b>…even while it delivers the genre goods…Waters remains a master of her genre, the historical novel rewritten as a dissection of the individual conscience…Undeniably fascinating.” --<a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/books/ct-prj-paying-guests-sarah-waters-20140822-story.html" target="_blank"><i>The Chicago Tribune</i></a><br />
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“The new Sarah Waters novel, which finds the author at the height of her powers, <b>weaves her characteristic threads of historical melodrama, lesbian romance, class tension, and sinister doings into a fabric of fictional delight</b> that alternately has the reader flipping pages as quickly as possible, to find out what happens next, and hesitating to turn the page, for fear of what will happen next.” --<a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2014/09/13/book-review-the-paying-guests-sarah-waters/K7dDWBRqALkETdEX58CW9L/story.html" target="_blank"><i>Boston Globe</i></a> <br />
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“If you haven’t already embraced the novels of Sarah Waters, now is the moment. Don’t think twice. Collect all six and devour them with the same feverish abandon of the lovers who can be found between their covers…<b>[<i>The Paying Guests</i>] is no romance novel or mere thriller, but a well-wrought, closely observed drama of a tumultuous period in British history</b>… Herein lies the deliciousness of this book, and the others Waters has written: As much as Frances longs to give her heart to someone who will cherish it, we can never be sure, when she opens the final door, whether she will find the lady or the gallows.” --<a href="http://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/books-and-literature/reviews/sarah-waters-grabs-readers-with-steamy-suspense-history/article_2b2bef07-c9f2-5df8-9972-d453c55d7d12.html" target="_blank"><i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch </i></a><br />
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“It's been a while since a book kept me up until 3:30 a.m., but <i>The Paying Guests</i> grabbed me and would not let me go until I turned page 566 and closed the cover with a sigh. <b>The wonderfully melodramatic plot, the brilliant characterization of protagonist Frances Wray, the vivid depiction of the zeitgeist in post-WWI London</b>--each of these elements was equally responsible for the kidnapping of this unsuspecting reader.” --<a href="http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/books/sarah-waters-the-paying-guests-will-keep-you-up-late-1.9327936" target="_blank"><i>Newsday</i></a> <br />
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“<b>A singular novel</b> of psychological tension, emotional depth and historical detail.” --<a href="http://bookpage.com/reviews/17046-sarah-waters-paying-guests#.VDcG9tYVbL8" target="_blank"><i>BookPage</i></a><br />
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“<b>An absorbing character study [and] expertly paced and gripping psychological narrative</b>...Readers of Water’s previous novels know that she brings historical eras to life with consummate skill, rendering authentic details into layered portraits of particular times and places...Breathtaking.” --<a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-59463-311-9" target="_blank"><i>Publishers Weekly</i></a>, <b>starred review</b><br />
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“<b>So brilliantly unexpected, and so nerve-shreddingly tense</b>, that it keeps the reader guessing until the very last paragraph.” --<a href="http://www.thebookseller.com/news/new-sarah-waters-novel-nerve-shreddingly-tense" target="_blank"><i>The Bookseller</i></a><br />
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“A beautiful and turbulent novel about the complexity, and often futility, of personal and social change…With <i>The Paying Guests</i>, Waters has not only crafted <b>a vivid portrait of class dissolution in post-WWI London, but also a look at the achingly human need for a sense of purpose</b> and, if we’re lucky, a little intimacy.” --<a href="http://www.avclub.com/review/sarah-waters-muses-class-and-identity-paying-guest-208943" target="_blank"><i>AV Club</i></a> <br />
<br />Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16339959791717944880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998867167282295105.post-59130177487137722272014-09-02T13:14:00.000-04:002014-09-02T13:14:51.607-04:00How to Become an International Bestseller in 8 Steps!<br />
<b>1. Write novels about famous maligned women in history and Tudor spies.</b><br />
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<a href="http://www.cwgortner.com/" target="_blank">C.W. Gortner</a> tells the stories of famous historical figures as you've never heard them before. <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/book/69778/the-last-queen-by-c-w-gortner" target="_blank"><i>The Last Queen</i></a> (Ballantine 2008) is about “Juana La Loca,” the last queen of Spanish blood to inherit her country's throne. <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/book/69777/the-confessions-of-catherine-de-medici-by-c-w-gortner" target="_blank"><i>The Confessions of Catherine de Medici</i></a> (2010) is about the last legitimate descendant of the Medici line who became—according to some—a most ruthless queen of France. <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/book/205114/the-queens-vow-by-c-w-gortner" target="_blank"><i>The Queen's Vow</i></a> (2012) is about Isabella of Castile, the warrior-queen who sent Columbus to America. In 2016, Ballantine will publish a stunning, new Gortner novel about Lucrezia Borgia, daughter of Italy's first crime family.<br />
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Gortner's <a href="http://us.macmillan.com/thetudorsecret/cwgortner" target="_blank"><i>The Tudor Secret</i></a> (St. Martin's Press 2011), <a href="http://us.macmillan.com/books/9780312658496" target="_blank"><i>The Tudor Conspiracy</i></a> (2013), and <a href="http://us.macmillan.com/books/9780312658588" target="_blank"><i>The Tudor Vendetta</i></a> (forthcoming October 2014) follow the story of a spy in the Tudor court during the reigns of Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I.<br />
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Gortner's next novel, coming from William Morrow in March 2015, imagines the life of the woman who revolutionized fashion, built an international empire, and become one of the most influential and controversial figures of the twentieth century—Coco Chanel! Look out for <i><a href="http://www.harpercollins.com/9780062356406/mademoiselle-chanel" target="_blank">Mademoiselle Chanel</a> </i>in the spring!<br />
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<b>2. Make them good.</b><br />
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Simply put, Gortner's “meticulously researched,”<sup><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7998867167282295105#fn1" id="ref1">1</a></sup> “page-turner”<sup><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7998867167282295105#fn2" id="ref2">2</a></sup> novels “spi[n] grand tale[s] of opulence and deception, privilege and destruction, madness and fragile love”<sup><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7998867167282295105#fn3" id="ref3">3</a></sup> that “captiv[ate] audiences with their complexity,”<sup><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7998867167282295105#fn4" id="ref4">4</a></sup> “com[ing] together with a beauty and passion that can't be found anywhere in the pages of history books”<sup><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7998867167282295105#fn5" id="ref5">5</a></sup>; they are “masterwork[s] by a skilled craftsman...that will delight romantics and historians alike.”<sup><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7998867167282295105#fn6" id="ref6">6</a></sup><br />
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<sup id="fn1">1. </sup><sup id="fn1"><i>Publishers Weekly</i> on <i>The Confessions of Catherine de Medici</i></sup><br />
<sup id="fn2">2. </sup><sup id="fn2"><i>Historical Novel Society</i> on <i>The Tudor Conspiracy</i></sup> <br />
<sup id="fn3">3. </sup><sup id="fn3"><i>Historical Novel Review</i> on <i>The Last Queen</i></sup> <br />
<sup id="fn4">4. </sup><sup id="fn4">Examiner.com on <i>The Tudor Secret</i></sup><br />
<sup id="fn5">5. </sup><sup id="fn5"><i>Romantic Times Book Reviews</i> on <i>The Queen's Vow</i></sup><br />
<sup id="fn6">6. </sup><sup id="fn6"><i>New York Journal of Books</i> on <i>The Queen's Vow</i></sup><br />
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<b>3. Sell your novels in 23 countries and counting.</b><br />
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Bulgaria * China * Croatia * Czech Republic * Estonia * Germany * Hungary * Indonesia * Italy * Latvia * Lithuania * Norway * Poland * Portugal * Romania * Russia * Serbia * Slovenia * Spain * Sweden * Turkey * United Kingdom * United States</div>
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<b>4. Get a great Polish publicist—and a great Polish publisher and Polish coagent, etc, etc.</b><br />
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Above is Gortner (right) pictured with his publicist (center) from Polish publisher <a href="http://www.znak.com.pl/" target="_blank">Znak</a>.<br />
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<b>5. Get sent to Poland on an international tour. </b><br />
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Above, Gortner talks at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/matraspl?refid=17" target="_blank">Matras</a> bookstore and answers reader questions about <i>The Queen's Vow</i>. Among many other places, he was interviewed at <a href="http://historia.newsweek.pl/izabela-kastylijska-prekursorka-renesansu-newsweek-pl,artykuly,282521,1.html" target="_blank">Newsweek Polska</a> and <a href="http://natemat.pl/101673,autor-przysiegi-krolowej-c-w-gortner-wciaz-najbardziej-boimy-sie-innosci" target="_blank">NaTemat.pl</a>!<br />
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<i>The Queen's Vow</i> rocketed up the bestseller list throughout Poland soon after its release, making individual bestseller lists at Matras bookstores, Empik bookstores, and many internet bookstore outlets. <br />
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<b>Next Step: Repeat Steps 1 – 3 and look for another great opportunity!</b><br />
<br />Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16339959791717944880noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998867167282295105.post-32394073951508600222014-07-21T17:01:00.000-04:002014-07-21T17:01:30.291-04:00TV rights to WONDROUS STRANGE series go to ShaftesburyApparently it's all TV/film deals, all the time! We've had a number of exciting TV/film deals announced recently (see <a href="http://jeanvnaggarliteraryagency.blogspot.com/2014/07/jean-m-auels-clan-of-cave-bear-to.html" target="_blank"><i>The Clan of the Cave Bear</i></a> and <a href="http://jeanvnaggarliteraryagency.blogspot.com/2014/04/breaking-news-film-rights-to-olivia.html" target="_blank"><i>Olivia Kidney</i></a>), and now we're delighted to announce another!<br />
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Leading producer <a href="http://shaftesbury.ca/" target="_blank">Shaftesbury Films</a> has acquired TV rights to <a href="http://www.lesleylivingston.com/" target="_blank">Lesley Livingston</a>'s acclaimed <i>Wondrous Strange</i> trilogy, <a href="http://www.harpercollins.com/9780061575396/wondrous-strange" target="_blank">published by HarperCollins</a>! The award-winning trilogy, which includes <i>Wondrous Strange</i> (2008), <i>Darklight</i> (2009), and <i>Tempestuous</i> (2010), follows the adventures of Kelly Winslow, a teenager whose life takes a dramatic turn when she learns she is the long-lost heir to the Faerie realm. <br />
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Livingston will be part of the creative team behind the <i>Wondrous Strange </i>TV production, and <a href="http://www.quillandquire.com/childrens-publishing/2014/07/16/lesley-livingstons-wondrous-strange-optioned-for-tv/" target="_blank">as she says in <i>Quill and Quire</i></a>, "To say that I’m excited about this would be a galactic understatement. Galactic." Shaftesbury produced the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's long-running <i>Murdoch Mysteries</i> series, as well as the Canadian Television Network's paranormal police series <i>The Listener</i>. <br />
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The announcement was picked up by <a href="http://www.deadline.com/2014/07/wondrous-strange-shaftesbury-tv-lesley-livingston/" target="_blank"><i>Deadline</i></a>, <a href="http://www.quillandquire.com/childrens-publishing/2014/07/16/lesley-livingstons-wondrous-strange-optioned-for-tv/" target="_blank"><i>Quill and Quire</i></a>, and <a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/book-deals/article/63370-book-deals-week-of-july-21-2014.html" target="_blank"><i>Publishers Weekly</i></a>, among others.<br />
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Below is the full press release with additional details:<br />
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<b>SHAFTESBURY SECURES TELEVISION RIGHTS TO AWARD-WINNING YOUNG ADULT BOOK SERIES WONDROUS STRANGE</b></div>
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<i>“With a marvelously refreshing heroine, a genuinely lovable hero, and a swift-moving, fascinating plot, Ms. Livingston gives a modern twist to the age-old epic hero’s 'coming of age’ story. </i>Wondrous Strange<i> shows that the world of Faerie can be updated and yet retain its age-old charm - as well as its aura of deadly danger. This is my kind of fiction, and my kind of heroine!”</i><br />
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TORONTO/LOS ANGELES, July 14, 2014 – Leading producer Shaftesbury has acquired the television rights to Lesley Livingston’s acclaimed <i><b>Wondrous Strange</b></i> young adult trilogy, published by HarperCollins Canada as well as HarperCollins U.S. Including <i>Wondrous Strange</i> (2009), <i>Darklight</i> (2010) and <i>Tempestuous</i> (2011), the book series follows the adventures of a young woman who discovers she is the long-lost heir to the Faerie realm.<br />
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“<i>Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Bitten</i> and <i>Orphan Black</i> have shown us that television audiences are hungry for genre series featuring strong female protagonists who are dealing with extraordinary circumstances in the real world,” said Maggie Murphy, Head, Shaftesbury U.S. “By putting a refreshingly darker spin on classic fairy lore, <b><i>Wondrous Strange</i></b> offers an entirely new fantasy world that has never been seen before, with empowering, believable characters who speak directly to the young female demographic.”<br />
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“I could not be more thrilled to hand this world and these characters over to Shaftesbury,” said Livingston. “This kind of creative, dedicated, professional team is one that writers wait a long time for and I’m so excited to see this story getting the opportunity to grow beyond the pages of the books.”<br />
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Shaftesbury has a long-standing, successful track record in adapting the best of Canadian literature for film and television, including the works of Margaret Atwood, Carol Shields, Mordecai Richler, Timothy Findley, Morley Callaghan, Michael Ignatieff, Dr. Vincent Lam and Maureen Jennings.<br />
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In <b><i>Wondrous Strange</i></b>, when the invisible membrane dividing our world from an unknown, other dimension is punctured, a young woman named Kelly Winslow joins a small Guard determined to stop the tide of evil…but soon discovers she is born of the very thing she has sworn to destroy. With the mysterious Sonny Flannery by her side, Kelly learns Faeries are alive and well and that she is the missing heir to their throne. As she falls desperately for Sonny, she wonders if the two can ever truly be together. In New York City, just off Broadway - amongst never-ending roadwork, digital overload and street meat - lies the battleground. The evil in <b><i>Wondrous Strange</i></b> hides in plain sight, often disguised in seemingly benign human form - always present, awaiting that split-second opportunity when we lower our guard. Late at night the parasites come to call, to snatch our innocent sleeping children. Can Kelly embrace her heritage in time to save the imperfect world she calls home?<br />
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Released in Canada and the U.S. in 2009 and multiple international markets including Brazil, Denmark, France, Italy, Spain, Russia and Poland, <b><i>Wondrous Strange</i></b> was the 2010 Canadian Literary Association’s Young Adult Book of the Year and the 2010 White Pine Honor Book, and was also shortlisted for the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Speculative Fiction.<br />
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<a href="http://www.lesleylivingston.com/" target="_blank">Lesley Livingston</a> is an acclaimed Toronto-based author whose <b><i>Wondrous Strange</i></b> series includes <i>Darklight</i> (2010) and <i>Tempestuous</i> (2011). Livingston’s second trilogy, <a href="http://www.penguin.ca/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780143177951,00.html" target="_blank">published by Penguin Canada</a>, includes <i>Once Every Never</i> (2011), <i>Every Never After</i> (2013) and <i>Now and For Never</i> (2014). A spin-off to the <b><i>Wondrous Strange</i></b> series, <i>Starling</i>, was <a href="http://www.harpercollins.com/9780062063076/starling" target="_blank">released by HarperTeen</a> in 2012 and includes <i>Descendant</i> (2013) and <i>Transcendent</i> (forthcoming December 2014). Livingston’s middle-grade series with Jonathan Llyr, <i>The Wiggins Weird</i>, was <a href="http://www.penguin.ca/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780143184249,00.html" target="_blank">published by Penguin Canada</a> in 2013 and includes <i>How to Curse in Hieroglyphics</i> and <i>The Haunting of Heck House</i>. A principal performer and founding member of the Toronto-based Tempest Theatre Group, Livingston also regularly appeared on the Space network series, <i>Spacebar</i>. Livingston is represented by the <a href="http://jvnla.com/" target="_blank">Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc</a>.<br />
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<b>About Shaftesbury</b><br />
With offices in Toronto and Los Angeles, Shaftesbury is an innovative creator and distributor of original content for television and digital platforms. Sold in 120 countries worldwide, Shaftesbury's programming slate includes five seasons of <i>The Listener</i> for CTV, Fox International Channels and ION Television; eight seasons of <i>Murdoch Mysteries</i> for CBC, UKTV and ITV STUDIOS Global Entertainment; and the hit kids series <i>Life with Derek</i>. Shaftesbury's groundbreaking digital media division, Smokebomb Entertainment, creates convergent experiences for television and original digital content including the comedy series <i>Backpackers</i> for The CW and CTV Extend; tween series <i>Totally Amp'd</i> and <i>Unlikely Heroes</i> for YTV.com and Hulu; and 3D sci-fi series <i>State of Syn</i> for Hulu and Google Glass. Shaftesbury recently launched shift2, an innovative agency that creates, manages and markets digital content targeting Generation C on YouTube. Visit us online at <a href="http://shaftesbury.ca/">http://shaftesbury.ca</a>, <a href="http://smokebomb.ca/">http://smokebomb.ca</a> and <a href="http://shift2.ca/">http://shift2.ca</a>.<br />
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For more information:<br />
Katherine Wolfgang<br />
Shaftesbury<br />
kwolfgang@shaftesbury.ca <br />
416-363-1411 x163 or 416-669-2823<br />
<br />Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16339959791717944880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998867167282295105.post-9913601938674450662014-07-14T17:44:00.000-04:002014-07-14T17:44:51.248-04:00Jean M. Auel's THE CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR to become major TV series on LifetimeWe are thrilled to announce that <a href="http://www.jeanauel.com/" target="_blank">Jean M. Auel</a>'s bestselling <i>The Clan of the Cave Bear</i> and <i>Earth’s Children</i>® series will soon be on TV! <a href="http://www.mylifetime.com/" target="_blank">Lifetime</a> has ordered a pilot for a potential 2015 launch, with Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Allison Shearmur, and Linda Woolverton involved. <br />
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<i>The Clan of the Cave Bear</i>, the first in Auel's <i>Earth’s Children</i>® series, was originally published in 1980 by <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/book/6278/the-clan-of-the-cave-bear-by-jean-m-auel" target="_blank">Random House</a>. The sixth in the series, <i>The Land of Painted Caves</i>, came out in 2011. All six books are <i>New York Times</i> and international bestsellers, with over 60 million copies having sold globally.<br />
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In light of the heavy-hitters involved in <i>The Clan of the Cave Bear</i> pilot, people in the industry speculate this production could be the breakout series for a cable channel that has recently begun <a href="http://variety.com/2013/biz/news/hold-the-melodrama-lifetime-redefines-its-telepic-brand-1200919501/" target="_blank">widening its viewer appeal and broadening its scope</a>. Plans are also in the works for Lifetime to adapt the Stephen King novella <i>Big Driver</i> and V.C. Andrews's <i>Flowers in the Attic</i>, among others.<br />
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Below is the full press release, which was picked up in <a href="http://variety.com/2014/tv/news/clan-of-the-cave-bear-tv-show-1201260180/" target="_blank"><i>Variety</i></a>, <a href="http://www.deadline.com/2014/07/the-clan-of-the-cave-bear-lifetime-drama-pilot-jean-m-auel-ron-howard-brian-grazer/" target="_blank"><i>Deadline</i></a>,<i> <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/lifetime-orders-clan-cave-bear-717561" target="_blank">The Hollywood Reporter</a></i>, and <a href="http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwtv/article/Lifetime-Orders-Drama-Pilot-Based-on-Jean-Auels-THE-CLAN-OF-THE-CAVE-BEAR-20140710#.U8Q9Lf4VbL9" target="_blank"><i>Broadway World</i></a>, among others:<br />
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<u><b>LIFETIME ORDERS DRAMA PILOT <i>THE CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR</i>, A LIONSGATE/FOX 21 CO-PRODUCTION IN ASSOCIATION WITH IMAGINE TELEVISION AND ALLISON SHEARMUR PRODUCTIONS</b></u></div>
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<b>LOS ANGELES, CA (July 9, 2014)</b> – Lifetime has ordered the drama pilot <i>The Clan of the Cave Bear</i>, based on Jean M. Auel’s series of best-selling novels, it was announced today by Rob Sharenow, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Lifetime. A co-production of Fox 21 and Lionsgate in association with Imagine Television and Allison Shearmur Productions, the project will be executive produced by Academy Award®-winning director Ron Howard (<i>A Beautiful Mind, Rush</i>) and Oscar® and Emmy® Award winner Brian Grazer (<i>A Beautiful Mind, 24</i>), along with Allison Shearmur (<i>The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Cinderella</i>), Linda Woolverton (<i>Maleficent, The Lion King</i>), who is writing the pilot, Francie Calfo (<i>Gang Related, Empire</i>) and Jean M. Auel. The project is targeted for a potential 2015 launch. <br />
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“I’ve always admired Jean M. Auel’s timeless work,” said Sharenow. “With the visionary creative team of Ron Howard, Linda Woolverton, Brian Grazer, Alli Shearmur, Jean M. Auel and Francie Calfo behind it, this project has it all--epic storytelling, great characters and a unique world that’s never been explored on television before. This is exactly the type of top-tier creative talent and great stories we embrace at Lifetime.”<br />
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The first book of Auel’s <i>Earth’s Children</i>® series, <i>The Clan of the Cave Bear</i>, takes place at a time in prehistory more than 25,000 years ago when Neanderthals shared the Earth with the first early modern humans and a band of cave dwellers adopt blond and blue-eyed Ayla, a child of the “Others.” As Ayla matures into a young woman of spirit and courage, she must fight for survival against the jealous bigotry of Broud, who will one day be clan leader.<br />
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Auel’s book series has sold more than 60 million copies globally and all six books have been <i>New York Times</i> bestsellers.<br />
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<u><b>ABOUT LIONSGATE </b></u></div>
Lionsgate is a leading global entertainment company with a strong and diversified presence in motion picture production and distribution, television programming and syndication, home entertainment, family entertainment, digital distribution, new channel platforms and international distribution and sales. Lionsgate currently has over 30 television shows on more than 20 networks spanning its primetime production, distribution and syndication businesses, including such critically-acclaimed hits as the multiple Emmy Award-winning <i>Mad Men</i> and <i>Nurse Jackie</i>, the comedy <i>Anger Management</i>, the network series <i>Nashville</i>, the syndication success <i>The Wendy Williams Show</i> and the critically-acclaimed series <i>Orange is the New Black</i>.<br />
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Fox 21 is a cable production studio housed within Twentieth Century Fox Television devoted to making creatively ambitious scripted series for the cable television market, as well as unscripted shows for both cable and broadcast networks. Fox 21 currently produces the Emmy and Golden Globe winning <i>Homeland</i> starring Claire Danes and Damian Lewis, the critically acclaimed smash hit <i>Sons of Anarchy</i> (with FX Productions), Brannon Braga and Adam Simon’s freshman hit <i>Salem</i>, Howard Gordon’s dramatic thriller <i>Tyrant</i>, the animated comedy <i>Brickleberry</i> from Daniel Tosh and <i>Witches of East End</i> starring Julia Ormond and Jenna Dewan Tatum. The studio also produces the upcoming <i>Rush</i> from Jonathan Levine and <i>Legends</i> from Howard Gordon and Jonathan Levin, and is developing the drama series <i>The Bastard Executioner</i> (with FX productions) from Kurt Sutter and Imagine TV’s Brian Grazer.<br />
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<u><b>ABOUT LIFETIME</b></u></div>
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<br />Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16339959791717944880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998867167282295105.post-65165074348603936452014-07-03T18:33:00.001-04:002014-07-03T18:59:40.043-04:00Hypocrisy suspected in school board's ban of THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POSTThis Monday, <a href="http://capegazette.villagesoup.com/p/school-board-removes-book-from-summer-reading-list/1200621?source=rss&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter" target="_blank"><i>Cape Gazette </i>announced</a> that the Cape Henlopen school board in Delaware had decided to ban <i>The Miseducation of Cameron Post</i> by <a href="http://www.emdanforth.com/" target="_blank">Emily M. Danforth</a> from its summer reading list. The announcement coincidentally came just as <a href="http://www.loc.gov/lgbt/about.html" target="_blank">LGBT Pride Month</a> was ending and sparked a backlash against the school board on Twitter and the blogosphere.<br />
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<i>The Miseducation of Cameron Post</i> is a critically acclaimed young adult novel published by <a href="http://www.harpercollins.com/9780062020567/the-miseducation-of-cameron-post" target="_blank">HarperCollins</a> in 2012. It tells the story of a girl named Cameron growing up in rural Montana whose parents die in a car accident the same day she kisses a girl for the first time. Feeling a mixture of guilt and relief that her parents will never find out, Cameron moves in with her highly conservative aunt and eventually falls in love with her best friend, a girl. When her aunt discovers the truth, she sends Cameron to a religious conversion camp, where Cameron must decide the person she wants to be. You can read more about the book in <a href="http://jeanvnaggarliteraryagency.blogspot.com/search/label/Danforth" target="_blank">our previous posts here</a>. <br />
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Below is an excerpt from <i>Cape Gazette</i>:<br />
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Citing language deemed inappropriate for entering freshmen, Cape Henlopen school board has removed "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" from the district’s summer reading list.<br />
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The book was part of a 10-book list given to district middle school students entering high school in the fall and taking college prep and honors classes. The list, called the Blue Hen List, is a collection of books deemed age-appropriate by state librarians from across the state.</blockquote>
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Yet, <a href="http://www.afterellen.com/delaware-school-board-removes-the-miseducation-of-cameron-post-from-summer-reading-list/07/2014/?xrs=synd_twitter_ellen" target="_blank">as noted on AfterEllen.com</a>, the school board was not concerned with the same "inappropriate" language in other books allowed to remain on the summer reading list, including <i>The Fault in Our Stars </i>by John Green and <i>Eleanor and Park </i>by Rainbow Rowell. Hypocrisy, anyone? AfterEllen.com posits the real issue was not inappropriate language but rather homophobia.<br />
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Here's more on what AfterEllen.com had to say about Danforth's book:<br />
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<i>The Miseducation of Cameron Post</i> by Emily Danforth, published in 2012, was a YA tour de force, a book that older queers wished had been written when they were kids, lauded by numerous high-brow publications for the quality of its writing. It was also nominated for the much-coveted Morris Award, given by the American Library Association each year to the best new voice in YA. This wasn’t just a book that the gays were reading. Everybody was reading it! And loving it!</blockquote>
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AfterEllen.com called upon readers to "act now," and email the school board with complaints. They posted the complaint letter they sent themselves, as well as the email addresses of all the members of the school board. <a href="http://www.afterellen.com/delaware-school-board-removes-the-miseducation-of-cameron-post-from-summer-reading-list/07/2014/?xrs=synd_twitter_ellen" target="_blank">You can view these here.</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.browseaboutbooks.com/" target="_blank">Browseabout Books</a>, a local Delaware bookstore, got in the action. It has been working with AfterEllen.com to give donated copies of <i>The Miseducation of Cameron Post </i>to interested readers in the area. <a href="http://www.afterellen.com/delaware-school-board-removes-the-miseducation-of-cameron-post-from-summer-reading-list/07/2014/?xrs=synd_twitter_ellen" target="_blank">Find out how to donate copies to the cause here.</a><br />
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<a href="http://somuchflotsam.tumblr.com/post/90665567737/win-the-entire-original-uncensored-blue-hen-reading" target="_blank">In a recent blog post</a>, Danforth pointed out that other books on the Blue Hen reading list have been banned elsewhere due to their supposedly offensive language. To combat this censorship, she decided to celebrate <i>all</i> the books on the original list with a massive giveaway. In collaboration with Browseabout Books, she's giving away every single book on the Blue Hen list--including a signed copy of her own and possibly others' books. Here are more details:<br />
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All you have to do to enter is to use your twitter account (easiest for tech-challenged me to track and collate) to explain, in not very many characters, why you want/need these books. Use the hashtag <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LeaveTheBlueHenListAlone?src=hash" target="_blank">#LeaveTheBlueHenListAlone</a> so that I can find your entry. (The limited character count is part of the challenge.) And you have to do this by next Friday, July 11th. Feel free to tweet about this as many times as you’d like—the more entries the better.</blockquote>
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Already, people have been putting out some great reasons why these books are so important:<br />
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And, in a <a href="http://www.afterellen.com/update-cape-henlopen-school-board-moves-to-undo-cameron-post-ban/07/2014/" target="_blank">very recent update on AfterEllen.com</a>, it seems the emails coming into the school board may have begun having some effect. One board member claimed he would make a request to reinstate <i>The Miseducation of Cameron Post </i>on the reading list.<br />
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We can only hope the other board members will be swayed--but in the meantime, more emails to the school board can't hurt, nor can donating more books to interested readers in the area and speaking out to prevent censorship like this from continuing to happen now and in the future. Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16339959791717944880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998867167282295105.post-23963222699050331842014-06-30T13:17:00.000-04:002014-06-30T13:17:00.851-04:00Phenomenal praise for THE MAN WHO WALKED AWAY<a href="http://maudcasey.com/" target="_blank">Maud Casey</a>'s <i>The Man Who Walked Away</i> has received phenomenal praise. The novel, published by <a href="http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-man-who-walked-away-9781620403129/" target="_blank">Bloomsbury</a> in March, is about a man who walks across Europe in a trance-like state and the doctor from whom he seeks help. <br />
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<b><i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b> published a <b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/books/review/the-man-who-walked-away-by-maud-casey.html?_r=0" target="_blank">rave review</a></b> from Geraldine Brooks! Brooks called <i>The Man Who Walked Away</i> "richly engaged with language...Poignant, touching." <br />
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The book also appeared in the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/25/books/review/editors-choice.html" target="_blank"><b>Editor's Choice column</b></a> in <b><i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b>.<br />
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<i><b>The Washington Post</b></i> published a <b><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/book-review-man-walks-away-and-into-dawn-of-psychiatry-in-19th-century-europe/2014/03/24/ba677d0e-ae1e-11e3-9627-c65021d6d572_story.html" target="_blank">glowing review</a></b>, praising Casey for "evok[ing]--with no shortage of verve and gusto--the romance of 19th-century Europe."<br />
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<b><i>National Public Radio (NPR)</i></b> called Casey's handling of her story "a feat as graceful as it is clever" in its <a href="http://www.npr.org/2014/03/11/282616000/out-of-footsteps-and-questions-walking-man-makes-a-song-to-share" target="_blank"><b>stellar review</b></a>!<br />
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<b><i>The Washington Independent Review of Books</i></b> released another <a href="http://www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/the-man-who-walked-away" target="_blank"><b>rave review</b></a>, calling the novel "intelligent, superb...a beautiful, poignant story worth considering and reconsidering."<br />
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<b><i>Kirkus Reviews</i></b> gave the novel a <a href="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/maud-casey/man-who-walked-away/" target="_blank"><b>starred review</b></a>, too, and listed it in their <a href="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/lists/2014s-most-overlooked-books-so-far/man-who-walked-away/" target="_blank"><b>"Most Overlooked Books"</b></a> and <a href="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/lists/9-novels-based-extraordinary-true-stories/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=title&utm_campaign=030414" target="_blank"><b>"9 Novels Based on Extraordinary True Stories"</b></a> lists!<br />
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<b><i>The Washingtonian</i></b> named <i>The Man Who Walked Away</i> a <a href="http://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/capitalcomment/books/top-10-books-for-march-2014.php" target="_blank"><b>"Top Ten Book for March"</b></a>!<br />
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<i>The Man Who Walked Away</i> was named a <b><i>Publishers Weekly</i></b> <a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/tip-sheet/article/61323-pw-picks-books-of-the-week-march-10-2014.html" target="_blank"><b>Book of the Week</b></a> and received a <a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-62040-311-2" target="_blank"><b>starred review</b></a>!<br />
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And here are excerpts of the amazing reviews:<br />
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“<b>Lyrical in its style and fascinating in its psychology</b>, Casey’s narrative provokes a host of intriguing questions beyond those the Doctor raises, and Casey is wise enough as an author not to provide easy answers.” --<i>Kirkus</i>, <b>starred review</b> <br />
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“<b>Haunting...unconventional and engaging</b>...Though her plot is solidly rooted in the history of medicine...Casey’s true focus is human rather than clinical. Our need for stories, our relationship with time, the inevitability of loss, and our startling endurance all resonate through her beautifully crafted interweaving of image and observation, fairy tale and fact.” --<i>Publishers Weekly</i>, <b>starred review</b> <br />
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“If I were blurbing Maud Casey’s <i>The Man Who Walked Away</i>, I’d be hard pressed to avoid labeling it ‘luminous’ and ‘liminal,’ and maybe even ‘lyrical’ and ‘plangent.’ Casey is a consummate stylist, and her new book is so richly engaged with language, so profligate with glorious sentences, that <b>at times the prose ascends to the level of poetry</b>. This is a writer who pays a deep, sensual attention to the world...Poignant and touching.” --Geraldine Brooks, <i>The New York Times Book Review</i><br />
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“Casey’s book is <b>a vivid chronicle of the time</b>, bringing alive the mysteries and joys of a fledgling science...Shucking the theme of contemporary angst, Casey evokes — with no shortage of verve and gusto — the romance of 19th-century Europe...<i>The Man Who Walked Away</i> is as compelling a portrait as you will find of the co-dependence between psychiatrist and patient.” --<i>The Washington Post</i><br />
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“Intelligent, superb...Casey’s spectacular third novel...is a meditation on the elusive nature of time and life, the way they approach and leave us...Casey’s capable hands have elevated these ideas into a beautiful, poignant story worth considering and reconsidering...<b>Her prose leaves rich morsels on almost every page, satisfying in both beauty and complexity of thought</b>...Casey’s characters find companionship and anchors in one another, and we are fortunate to find such company in this treasure of a book.” --<i>Washington Independent Review of Books</i><br />
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“If you're listening closely enough, you might just hear [Casey] pull off <b>a feat as graceful as it is clever</b>...Casey handles the story expertly.” --<i>National Public Radio</i><br />
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“Maud Casey's <i>The Man Who Walked Away</i> is a <b>haunting, deeply empathetic, and rigorously intelligent</b> novel. It is also seamless marvel of construction and language. <i>The Man Who Walked Away</i> cast a spell from which I never wished to wake.” --Alice Sebold, internationally bestselling author of <i>The Lovely Bones </i><br />
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“Pay attention, this lovely novel urges. As Maud Casey spins this mysteriously urgent tale of patient and doctor entwining, her quicksilver prose yields one astonishing image after another: each moment fleetingly beautiful, each character here—here!—and nowhere else. As this novel is like nothing else. <b>Reading it is a singularly moving experience</b>.” --Andrea Barrett, National Book Award-winning author of <i>Ship Fever</i> and <i>Archangel</i><br />
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“<i>The Man Who Walked Away</i> is <b>a book of enchantments of an extremely intelligent kind</b>. Dreamlike and sharply real, the novel unfolds in a nineteenth-century asylum where all the inmates have their own poetry of delusion, fear turned to metaphor. Wildly original fiction, with a particular melancholy magic.” --Joan Silber, bestselling author of <i>Ideas of Heaven</i> and <i>The Size of the World</i><br />
<br />Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16339959791717944880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998867167282295105.post-2855601815508785262014-05-16T18:12:00.000-04:002015-02-02T18:13:39.086-05:00Celebrate Children's Book Week with some stellar recent releases!<br />
Happy Children's Book Week!<br />
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<a href="http://www.bookweekonline.com/" target="_blank">Children's Book Week</a> has been celebrated every year in May since 1919, making it the longest-running national literacy initiative in the country. The movement is run by <a href="http://www.ecarfoundation.org/" target="_blank">Every Child a Reader</a>, an organization “dedicated to instilling a lifelong love of reading in children,” and is sponsored by the <a href="http://www.cbcbooks.org/" target="_blank">Children's Book Council</a> (CBC), the association of children's book publishers. <a href="http://www.cbcbooks.org/about/cbw/" target="_blank"> According to the CBC site</a>, 2013 saw over 150 Children's Book Week events held in 58 cities across the US. This year, they've been aiming for even more!<br />
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In celebration of Children's Book Week, we decided to highlight some of our exciting recent (and some upcoming) kids' books!<br />
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<b><i>This Is a Moose</i> by <a href="http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/authors/richard-t-morris-kids/" target="_blank">Richard T. Morris</a>, illustrated by <a href="http://tomlichtenheld.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Tom Lichtenheld</a> (<a href="http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/richard-t-morris/this-is-a-moose/9780316213608/" target="_blank">Little Brown Books for Young Readers</a>, May) </b><br />
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In a recent <i>Publishers Weekly</i> podcast, Morris talks about how the picture book came to publishing light—with some coercion from Morris's wife and agent, Alice Tasman, along the way! Lichtenheld joins the podcast to discuss how he helped the surprise ending evolve, and more. Listen to it <a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?channel=5&podcast=211" target="_blank">here</a>!<br />
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Morris has also been doing a number of readings since the book's release, accompanied by none other than the book's star moose himself! Mum's the word on who's actually inside that moose suit, but feel free to take a guess... :)<br />
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<b><i>Searching for Sky</i> by <a href="http://jilliancantor.com/index.php" target="_blank">Jillian Cantor</a> (<a href="http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/searching-for-sky-9781619633513/" target="_blank">Bloomsbury</a>, May)</b><br />
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A <a href="http://jilliancantor.com/critical-praise-for-searching-for-sky/" target="_blank">glowing review from <i>Booklist</i></a> noted, “In this 'reverse dystopian' novel, Cantor skillfully invites the reader to see our world and all its shortcomings and idiosyncrasies through Sky's questioning gaze.”<br />
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<b><i>Count on the Subway</i> by <a href="http://www.jacobsandswender.com/" target="_blank">Paul DuBois Jacobs and Jennifer Swender</a>, illustrated by <a href="http://www.danyaccarino.com/ys/" target="_blank">Dan Yaccarino</a> (<a href="http://www.randomhousekids.com/books/detail/219771-count-on-the-subway?isbn=9780307979230#.U3aD5tsVbL8" target="_blank">Knopf Books for Young Readers</a>, May)</b><br />
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<i>Count on the Subway</i> was spotlighted in <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/books/review/in-new-york-by-marc-brown-and-more.html?_r=0" target="_blank"><i>The New York Times Book Review</i>'s Children's Books section</a>! It was also named an Editors' Choice pick!<br />
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<b><i>Now and for Never </i>by <a href="http://lesleylivingston.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Lesley Livingston</a> (<a href="http://penguin.ca/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780143182108,00.html?BOOK_3_OF_THE_ONCE_EVERY_NEVER_TRILOGY:_NOW_AND_FOR_NEVER_Lesley_Livingston" target="_blank">Penguin Canada</a>, May)</b><br />
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This will be the third in Livingston's <i>Once Every Never</i> trilogy, which began with <i>Once Every Never</i> in 2011 and was followed by <i>Every Never After</i> in 2013. Livingston is hosting a <a href="http://lesleylivingston.blogspot.com/2014/05/now-and-for-never-book-launch.html" target="_blank">fab launch party</a> for anyone in the Toronto area! Details are below if you happen to live nearby.<br />
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<b><i>Burn Out</i> by <a href="http://www.kristihelvig.com/" target="_blank">Kristi Helvig</a> (<a href="http://www.egmontusa.com/product.asp?prodid=4434&catid=" target="_blank">Egmont</a>, April)</b><br />
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<a href="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/kristi-helvig/burn-out-helvig/" target="_blank">A rave from <i>Kirkus</i> said of <i>Burn Out</i></a>, "Helvig builds a rock-solid future world and provides enough staggering plot twists and turns to keep pages flying to the gut-wrenching cliffhanger. A scorching series opener not to be missed”!<br />
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<b><i>Gabe and Izzy: Standing Up for America's Bullied</i> by <a href="http://www.gabeandizzy.com/" target="_blank">Gabrielle Ford</a> with Sarah Thomson (<a href="http://www.penguin.com/book/gabe-izzy-by-gabrielle-ford/9780147509949" target="_blank">Puffin</a>, March)</b><br />
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<i>Publishers Weekly</i> praised this book in a <a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-book-news/article/59616-books-against-bullies-self-help-2013.html" target="_blank">big article on bullying</a> several months ago. You can find out more about the book and the <i>PW </i>article via <a href="http://jeanvnaggarliteraryagency.blogspot.com/2013/10/raising-awareness-about-something-truly.html" target="_blank">our blog piece about National Bullying Prevention Month here</a>.<br />
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<b><i>Otis Dooda: Downright Dangerous</i> by <a href="http://www.ellenpotter.com/" target="_blank">Ellen Potter</a>, illustrated by <a href="http://www.davidheatley.com/" target="_blank">David Heatley</a> (<a href="http://us.macmillan.com/otisdoodadownrightdangerous/EllenPotter" target="_blank">Feiwel and Friends</a>, March)</b><br />
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This is the hilarious sequel to <i>Otis Dooda: Strange but True</i> (2013). Otis has his <a href="http://www.otisdooda.com/" target="_blank">own website</a>, which simply should not be missed by any kids' book lovers! There you can download <a href="http://otisdooda.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">original songs</a> based on the books, as well as super fun <a href="http://www.otisdooda.com/activities.php" target="_blank">activities</a>--such as How to Make Fart Goop or How to Make a Ninja Mask. So go check it out!<br />
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<b><i>The Tyrant's Daughter</i> by <a href="http://www.jccarleson.com/" target="_blank">J.C. Carleson</a> (<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/book/221644/the-tyrants-daughter-by-jc-carleson" target="_blank">Knopf Books for Young Readers</a>, February)</b><br />
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<i>School Library Journal</i> <a href="http://www.slj.com/2014/05/standards/curriculum-connections/classics-are-cool-but-summer-reading-for-grades-9-12" target="_blank">named this their top Recommended Summer Read</a>! But it's also gotten heaps of accolades and praise since its release, which you should check out in <a href="http://jeanvnaggarliteraryagency.blogspot.com/2014/02/eye-opening-and-insightful-tyrants.html" target="_blank">our previous post on the book here</a>!<br />
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<b><i>Neverwas</i> by <a href="http://www.theamberhousetrilogy.com/" target="_blank">Kelly Moore, Tucker Reed, and Larkin Reed</a> (<a href="http://www.scholastic.com/browse/book.jsp?id=1320891&FullBreadCrumb=%3Cdiv%3EBook+Wizard+%3Ca+href%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.scholastic.com%2Fbrowse%2Fsearch%2Fkids%3FNtx%3Dmode%2Bmatchallpartial%26_N%3Dfff%26Ntk%3DSCHL30_SI%26query%3Dneverwas%26N%3D0%26y%3D0%26Ntt%3Dneverwas%26x%3D0%22+class%3D%22endecaAll%22%3E%3Cimg+alt%3D%22%22+src%3D%22%2Fbrowse%2Fimages%2Fsearch_filters_remove.png%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fa%3E%3C%2Fdiv%3E%3Cdiv+class%3D%22filter_high_guard%22%3E%3C%2Fdiv%3E%3Cp+class%3D%22clear%22%3E%3C%2Fp%3E" target="_blank">Arthur A. Levine Books</a>, January)</b><br />
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<i>Kirkus</i> named <i>Neverwas </i>to its <a href="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/lists/smart-reads-teens/neverwas/" target="_blank">"Smart Reads for Teens" list</a>! In a <a href="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/kelly-moore/neverwas/" target="_blank">separate rave review,</a> it said, “In this sequel to <i>Amber House </i>(2012), the creepy atmosphere of its predecessor segues into full-blown terror...A wild ride that leaves its readers breathless.”<br />
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So now go out and celebrate Children's Book Week with some great reads!<br />
<br />Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16339959791717944880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998867167282295105.post-53227380073685231652014-04-18T17:56:00.000-04:002014-04-18T17:56:05.304-04:00Breaking news! Film rights to OLIVIA KIDNEY go to Moonbot StudiosWe're so excited to announce that film rights to the <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/olivia-kidney-ellen-potter/1005646542?ean=9780142402344" target="_blank"><i>Olivia Kidney</i></a> trilogy by <a href="http://www.ellenpotter.com/" target="_blank">Ellen Potter</a> have been<i></i> acquired by <a href="http://moonbotstudios.com/#start" target="_blank">Moonbot Studios</a>!<br />
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Ellen Potter's critically acclaimed children's novel <i>Olivia Kidney</i> was published by Philomel in 2003. <i>Publishers Weekly </i>likened it to <i>Alice in Wonderland</i>, calling it "an imaginative, original offering with a poignant and satisfying ending that may bring a tear or two." Potter followed the first in the trilogy with <i><a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/olivia-kidney-stops-for-no-one-ellen-potter/1100316751?ean=9780142407721" target="_blank">Olivia Kidney Stops for No One</a> </i>in 2005 and <i><a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/olivia-kidney-and-the-secret-beneath-the-city-ellen-potter/1100475234?ean=9780142412633" target="_blank">Olivia Kidney and the Secret Beneath the City</a> </i>in 2007.<br />
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Below is the full press release via <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/14/la-moonbot-studios-idUSnBw145039a+100+BSW20140414" target="_blank"><i>Reuters</i></a>:<br />
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<b>OLIVIA KIDNEY Film Rights Acquired by William Joyce’s Moonbot Studios </b><br />
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<i>Academy Award®-Winning Team To Develop Feature Film </i><br />
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Moonbot Studios announced today that it will acquire film rights to the <i>Olivia Kidney</i> trilogy of young adult books by award-winning author Ellen Potter. The series is published by Philomel (a division of Penguin/Putnam). Moonbot plans to develop Olivia’s <i>Alice in Wonderland</i>-like adventures as a live action film with significant animation sequences. The film rights deal was handled by David Lipman and Michael Siegel for Moonbot and for Ellen Potter by Alice Tasman and Jennifer Weltz of Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency. <br />
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“At Moonbot, we’re grabbing for magic and <i>Olivia Kidney</i> has captivated us,” said William Joyce, Moonbot co-founder and author of the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling book, <i>The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore</i>. “Ellen Potter has crafted a unique and enchanting fantasy that we can’t wait to bring to life as a film.” <br />
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Moonbot Studios has also recently acquired film rights to <i>The Extincts</i> by Veronica Cossanteli, published by Chicken House Entertainment. Both books will be come part of Moonbot’s slate for feature films, chosen because of their high caliber of storytelling, immersive worlds and charming characters. These are the first books optioned by Moonbot outside of their internally-developed IP including <i>The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore</i>, <i>The Numberlys</i> and <i>The Lollipop 3</i>. <br />
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For more information about <i>Olivia Kidney</i> visit: <a href="http://www.ellenpotter.com/" target="_blank">http://ellenpotter.com </a><br />
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<br />Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16339959791717944880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998867167282295105.post-60882681103455319492014-03-31T18:46:00.000-04:002014-03-31T18:46:20.243-04:00Celebrating amazing women for Women's History MonthThere are all kinds of ways to honor <a href="http://womenshistorymonth.gov/" target="_blank">Women's History Month</a>. Here in the publishing world we like to honor it by reading books about amazing women—whether real, fictional, historical, or contemporary. <br />
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In taking a look at all our JVNLA books centered around amazing women, we realized we simply had too many to list...so we created a <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/jvnla/womens-history-month/" target="_blank">Pinterest board</a>! Check it out below.<br />
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One of the highlights on the adult fiction side is the prehistorical novel of a young woman, Ayla, who must learn to survive among a people who look and speak entirely unlike her in <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/book/6278/the-clan-of-the-cave-bear-by-jean-m-auel" target="_blank"><i>The Clan of the Cave Bear</i></a> by <a href="http://www.jeanauel.com/" target="_blank">Jean M. Auel</a> (Crown; 1979, 2010). It's the beginning of a six-book saga that dramatizes the story of human survival itself.<br />
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On the adult nonfiction side, there's <a href="http://www.neh.gov/about/awards/national-humanities-medals/natalie-zemon-davis" target="_blank">Natalie Zemon Davis</a>'s <a href="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674955219" target="_blank"><i>Women on the Margins</i></a> (Harvard University Press; 1997, 2003) about the lives of three women from the seventeenth century whose daily dilemmas and turmoils reveal what it meant to be a woman during that period of history, and which also shed insight on women's lives today. <br />
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For the kids' fiction side, there's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Passion-Blue-Victoria-Strauss-ebook/dp/B007TX6IRA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1396303820&sr=8-1&keywords=passion+blue" target="_blank"><i>Passion Blue</i></a> by <a href="http://www.victoriastrauss.com/" target="_blank">Victoria Strauss</a> (Skyscape, 2012) about a seventeen-year-old girl in Renaissance Italy who wants to find true love but is forced to enter a convent. She ends up falling in love with painting instead and journeys toward self-discovery.<br />
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Then on the kids' nonfiction side, there's the Newbery Honor Book and Boston Globe-Horn Award-winner <a href="http://us.macmillan.com/upontheheadofthegoat/ArankaSiegal" target="_blank"><i>Upon the Head of a Goat</i></a> (FSG; 1981, 2004). Written by <a href="http://us.macmillan.com/author/arankasiegal" target="_blank">Aranka Siegal</a>, this memoir tells the story of her childhood in Hungary as World War II starts, her father begins serving on the Russian front, and eventually she and her family are taken to the Auschwitz concentration camp.<br />
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Click below to see the full <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/jvnla/womens-history-month/" target="_blank">Pinterest board</a>! <br />
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These books are timeless, inspiring reads, so pick them up now--or any other month--and dive in!<br />
<br />Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16339959791717944880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998867167282295105.post-20264139638051273142014-02-28T16:53:00.003-05:002014-03-03T13:50:40.369-05:00"Eye-opening and insightful," THE TYRANT'S DAUGHTER is a must read<i>The Tyrant's Daughter</i> by <a href="http://www.jccarleson.com/" target="_blank">J.C. Carleson</a> has been having a great release month this February! It <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/103-ya-movers-shakers-february-2014" target="_blank">was named to the YA Movers and Shakers list on Goodreads </a>where, according to Goodreads, it's been “racing up [their] popularity charts.” It <a href="http://www.amazon.com/b?node=4919357011" target="_blank">was selected to the coveted position of “Amazon Best of the Month”</a> in the teen category, one of only four total books. And it <a href="http://bookriot.com/2014/01/06/2014-ya-fiction-preview-60-titles-january-june-radar/#.Us2W0K-JiO0.twitter" target="_blank">was named to <i>Book Riot</i>'s list of hot new books to read in 2014</a>.<br />
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Written by a former CIA officer, <i>The Tyrant's Daughter</i> tells the story of fifteen-year-old Laila, who has fled with her family from an unnamed Middle Eastern country after her father was killed in a coup. In Washington, D.C., Laila must adjust to a completely new life and new school, where she is shocked by girls who wear tank tops and shorts and where newspapers refer to her father as a “dictator.” Just as Laila's life begins to precariously balance amidst new friends, her mother's refusal to let go of the past threatens to upend everything in a new international crisis.<br />
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Central Ohio NPR's <i>Shelf Discovery</i> program recently spotlighted <i>The Tyrant's Daughter</i>. They highly recommended the book, saying,<i> </i>“Although it was written for teens, <i>The Tyrant's Daughter </i>is an eye-opening and insightful short novel that has something to say to readers of all ages.” You can listen to the full review <a href="http://wcbe.org/post/february-17-2014-shelf-discovery-tyrant-s-daughter-j-c-carleson" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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Nearly every reviewer has praised Carleson's “beautifully written” prose (<i>Booklist</i>) and the complexity of Laila as a character. The strength of Carleson's writing is immediately evident when you pick up <i>The Tyrant's Daughter.</i> Take a look for yourself via the excerpt made available by Knopf Books for Young Readers <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/197340314/The-Tyrant-s-Daughter-by-J-C-Carleson" target="_blank">here</a>. <br />
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Below are some of the excellent reviews that have come in for <i>The Tyrant's Daughter</i>:<br />
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“Filled with political intrigue and emotional tension...<b>Riveting</b>...Raising as many questions as answers about Laila’s fate, the novel challenges social values close to home and abroad.” --<a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-449-80997-6" target="_blank"><i>Publishers Weekly</i></a>, <b>starred review</b> <br />
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“Absorbing, character-driven...Carleson shrewdly makes what has become a sadly familiar story on the evening news accessible by focusing on the experiences of one innocent girl at the center of it. Laila is a complex and layered character whose nuanced observations will help readers better understand the divide between American and Middle Eastern cultures. <b>Smart, relevant, required reading.</b>” --<a href="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/jc-carleson/the-tyrants-daughter/" target="_blank"><i>Kirkus</i></a>, <b>starred review</b> <br />
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“This is more than just Laila’s story; rather, it is a story of context, <b>beautifully written, and stirring</b> in its questions and eloquent observations about our society and that of the Middle East.” --<i>Booklist</i><br />
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“An amazingly gripping and honest tale. Carleson keeps her readers feeling as though they have just returned from traveling in a foreign land, making those faraway issues feel a little more personal—<b>a feat few can achieve with words alone</b>.” --<a href="http://bookpage.com/reviews/16111-j-c-carleson-tyrants-daughter#..UuutyPs5CHg" target="_blank"><i>BookPage</i></a><br />
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“<b>Timely, relevant, and fascinating</b>, Laila’s story offers readers an accessible understanding of the seemingly intractable nature of Middle East politics.” --<i>The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books</i><br />
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“Some books are entertaining, some books are eye opening, but it's a special book that's both...<b>Insightful and honest</b>, this book also delivers a powerful ending worthy of <i>Homeland</i>.” --<i>Justine Magazine</i><br />
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“A touching, suspenseful story...<b>Every American should read this book.</b> It’s an eye-opener.” --Suzanne Fisher Staples, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind</i><br />
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<br />Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16339959791717944880noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998867167282295105.post-26942217267085388212014-01-31T18:23:00.000-05:002014-02-03T10:48:38.434-05:00Non-stop buzz for some phenomenal January/February releasesThe past two weeks have seen quite a few of our books released, and this coming week will see even more! While book releases are always exciting, there's been nearly non-stop buzz for each of the below over the past few weeks. We decided to highlight some of our favorite promotions, publicity, reviews, and more. <br />
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<i><b>Archetype</b></i><b> </b><b>by <a href="http://mdwatersauthor.com/" target="_blank">M.D. Waters</a> (<a href="http://www.penguin.ca/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780525954231,00.html" target="_blank">Dutton</a>, February 6, 2014)</b><br />
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<i>Archetype</i> was <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/indie-next-list" target="_blank">named an Indie Next Pick for February by the American Booksellers Association (ABA)</a>! In the Indie Next write-up, Melissa Oates from Fiction Addiction in Greenville, SC, wrote, "This is a great futuristic novel that will lead readers to questions of ethics and provide lots of material for group discussions."<br />
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Dutton has also created amazing swag for the book, which was featured at ComicCon, the ABA Winter Institute, and the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting. Below is an image of the t-shirts that made an appearance. There were also tattoos and tote bags! <br />
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<b><i>The Swan Gondola </i>by <a href="http://www.timothyschaffert.com/" target="_blank">Timothy Schaffert</a> (<a href="http://www.us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781594486098,00.html" target="_blank">Riverhead</a>, February 6, 2014)</b><br />
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Tattered Cover Bookstore <a href="http://www.tatteredcover.com/vib-very-impressive-book" target="_blank">named The Swan Gondola a V.I.B.--Very Impressive Book</a>!<br />
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They say about their V.I.B.'s, "Every now and then we encounter a new book that we're so excited about we want <span style="font-size: small;">to shout it from the rooftops, so we've created a special tag to distinguish it from the rest: <span style="color: maroon;"><b>TC VIB</b></span> (<i>very</i> <i>impressive book</i>)! That means it’s a true stand-out in a season of many excellent and compelling new books."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>The Swan Gondola</i> was also <a href="http://www.themillions.com/2014/01/most-anticipated-the-great-2014-book-preview.html" target="_blank">named a "Most Anticipated Book of 2014" by <i>The Millions</i></a>, among great company like Lorrie Moore and Haruki Murakami. Check out <i>The Millions</i>'s<i> </i>blurb below:</span><br />
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<b><i><i>Worthy Brown's Daughter </i></i>by <a href="http://www.phillipmargolin.com/" target="_blank">Phillip Margolin</a> (<a href="http://www.harpercollins.com/books/Worthy-Browns-Daughter-Phillip-Margolin/?isbn=9780062195340" target="_blank">Harper</a>, January 21, 2014)</b><i><br />
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<i><i>Publishers Weekly</i></i></i> <a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/profiles/article/60709-oregon-s-past-phillip-margolin.html" target="_blank">featured<i> New York Times</i>-bestselling author Phillip Margolin's latest in a huge, two-page spread</a>! They also interviewed him about the writing process. Check out the first page below:<i><br />
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Worthy Brown's Daughter</i> was also <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2014/01/18/new-and-noteworthy/4460385/" target="_blank">named to </a><i><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2014/01/18/new-and-noteworthy/4460385/" target="_blank"><i>USA Today</i></a></i><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2014/01/18/new-and-noteworthy/4460385/" target="_blank">'s Hottest Books List</a>! The article said, "This departure for best-selling thriller writer Margolin might appeal to fans of the acclaimed movie <i>12 Years a Slave</i>."<i><br />
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<i><b>Dominion</b></i></i><b> by <a href="http://www.cjsansombooks.com/" target="_blank">C.J. Sansom</a> (<a href="http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/cj-sansom/dominion/9780316254915/" target="_blank">Mulholland Books</a>, January 28, 2014)</b><i><br />
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</i>The boon of all boons came the day before <i> Dominion</i>'s release, when the great Stephen King himself tweeted about how much he loved the book!<i><br />
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</i>As Stephen King explained above, <i><i>Dominion</i></i> is an alternate history of what might have happened had the Nazis won World War II and occupied Great Britain. To play up this idea, Mulholland Books created fantastic mock-ups of the British newspapers <i><i>The Evening Standard, The Daily Express, </i></i>and<i> <i>The Times of London</i></i> as they might have looked had this alternate history really occurred. The papers were giveaways at Bourchercon and went into publicity mailings as well. Check out <i><i>The Evening Standard </i></i>below:<i><br />
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<i><b>The Vanishing</b></i></i><b> </b><b>by <a href="http://www.wendykwebb.com/" target="_blank">Wendy Webb</a> (<a href="http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/wendy-webb/the-vanishing/9781401341947/" target="_blank">Hyperion</a>, January 21, 2014)</b><i><br />
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<i>The Vanishing</i></i> was <a href="http://midwestbooksellers.org/2013/11/midwest-connections-picks-february-2014/" target="_blank">named a Midwest Connections Pick by the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association</a>!<b> </b>In its write-up, the booksellers association called the book "another escapist bit of commercial fiction with a mysterious edge that remains popular with readers."<i><br />
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</i>Webb has also been in the midst of <a href="http://www.wendykwebb.com/readings-signings.php" target="_blank">a whirlwind book tour</a> throughout Georgia, North Carolina, and New Orleans, themed "the Southern gothic meets the Northern gothic"--since Webb's books are contemporary gothic novels set in the Midwest and the South is so famous for their own gothic novels. Unfortunately, given the recent weather that's shut down places like Atlanta, some of Webb's book signings were put in jeopardy. She tweeted about it below:<i><br />
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<i><b>A Life in Men </b></i></i><b>by <a href="http://www.ginafrangello.com/" target="_blank">Gina Frangello</a> (<a href="http://www.algonquin.com/book/a-life-in-men/" target="_blank">Algonquin Books</a>, February 4, 2014)</b><i><br />
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</i>Like<i> <i>The Swan Gondola</i>,<i> A Life in Men</i></i> was also <a href="http://www.themillions.com/2014/01/most-anticipated-the-great-2014-book-preview.html" target="_blank">named to </a><i><a href="http://www.themillions.com/2014/01/most-anticipated-the-great-2014-book-preview.html" target="_blank"><i>The Millions</i></a></i><a href="http://www.themillions.com/2014/01/most-anticipated-the-great-2014-book-preview.html" target="_blank">'s list of "Most Anticipated Books of 2014"</a>! <i><i>The Los Angeles Times</i></i> picked up <i><i>The Millions</i></i>'s list too and <a href="http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-the-millions-looks-at-the-year-ahead-in-books-20140107,0,1185785.story#axzz2pqNqOAbz" target="_blank">gave a great shout-out to Frangello</a>. Check out <i><i>The Millions</i></i>'s blurb below:<i><br />
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<i>Book Riot</i></i> also <a href="http://bookriot.com/2014/01/31/riot-round-best-books-read-january/" target="_blank">named </a><i><a href="http://bookriot.com/2014/01/31/riot-round-best-books-read-january/" target="_blank"><i>A Life in Men</i></a></i><a href="http://bookriot.com/2014/01/31/riot-round-best-books-read-january/" target="_blank"> to its list of "The Best Books We Read in January"</a>! Contributor Marisa Atkinson wrote, "Frangello has given us one of the most authentic depictions of female friendship that I've ever read...<i><i>A Life in Men</i></i> is an important and powerful novel, and one I won't soon forget."<br />
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<br />Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16339959791717944880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998867167282295105.post-34781788697998584042013-12-19T21:09:00.001-05:002013-12-20T09:54:26.437-05:00JVNLA rides the subway 2013!Last year for the holidays, <a href="http://jeanvnaggarliteraryagency.blogspot.com/2012/12/jvnla-rides-subway.html" target="_blank">JVNLA took to the subway</a> to express our love for our books published in 2012. We snapped candid shots (and some not so candid shots) of ourselves reading as subway passengers looked on with puzzled expressions. For 2013, we simply had to do it again!<br />
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We began by posting pictures of us "reading in the wild" on Twitter--including pictures of us reading on subway platforms, at our desks, in bed, etc.--with the hashtag <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23readersinthewild&src=typd" target="_blank">#readersinthewild</a>. Then we followed it up with our adventure reading in the wilds of the subway!<br />
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Below, we present this year's candid and not-so-candid shots for your viewing pleasure.<br />
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We started at Times Square. Here, Tara, Jennifer, and Laura read <i>Love with a Chance of Drowning </i>by <a href="http://www.fearfuladventurer.com/" target="_blank">Torre DeRoche</a> (<a href="http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/torre-deroche/love-with-a-chance-of-drowning/9781401341954/" target="_blank">Hyperion</a>, May 2013). This and all other photos were taken by our excellent behind-the-scenes photographer, Ariana.<br />
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Below is a sampling of the 2013 books we brought along. When we began piling more books onto the subway seats, a mini-avalanche started!<br />
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Alice joined Laura and Jennifer to read <i>The Book of Someday </i>by <a href="http://diannedixon.com/" target="_blank">Dianne Dixon</a> (<a href="http://www.sourcebooks.com/store/book-of-someday.html" target="_blank">Sourcebooks Landmark</a>, September 2013).<br />
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The day we chose for subway riding was particularly snowy, and so Jean decided to stay home and read in the warm rather than in the wild! Here she is reading <i>Our Picnics in the Sun </i>by <a href="http://www.moragjoss.com/" target="_blank">Morag Joss</a> (<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/book/88876/our-picnics-in-the-sun-by-morag-joss" target="_blank">Delacorte Press</a>, November 2013).<br />
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Certain books inspire certain poses, and so Laura, Tara, and Jennifer couldn't help themselves from looking particularly nefarious while reading the noir mystery <i>Sugar Pop Moon </i>by <a href="http://www.johnfloriowriter.com/" target="_blank">John Florio</a> (<a href="http://www.seventhstreetbooks.com/sugarpopmoon.html" target="_blank">Seventh Street Books</a>, July 2013).<br />
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We also couldn't help but crack ourselves up while reading the very funny <i>The Heartbreak Messenger </i>by <a href="http://www.alexandervance.com/" target="_blank">Alexander Vance</a> (<a href="http://us.macmillan.com/theheartbreakmessenger/AlexanderVance" target="_blank">Feiwel and Friends</a>, July 2013).<br />
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When the below subway rider saw <i>Royal Mistress</i> by <a href="http://www.anneeastersmith.com/" target="_blank">Anne Easter Smith</a> (<a href="http://books.simonandschuster.com/Royal-Mistress/Anne-Easter-Smith/9781451648621" target="_blank">Touchstone</a>, May 2013), she got so excited she had to read it herself! <br />
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Then, she instructed Laura, Tara, and Jennifer how to properly pose for a scandalous historical novel like this one.<br />
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Noticing that some of our books had a certain theme to them, we decided to create our own story: First, there's <i>Love with a Chance of Drowning</i>. Next comes <i>The Heartbreak Messenger. </i>Which leads to <i>This Is How You Say Goodbye</i>.<br />
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While those of us in New York were in the midst of our subway adventures, Elizabeth was in Wisconsin having her own reading in the wild/transportation adventures! Here she is on bike with <i>Sugar Pop Moon</i>, <i>101 Quizzes for Couples</i> by <a href="http://www.natashaburton.com/" target="_blank">Natasha Burton</a> (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/101-Quizzes-Couples-These-Really/dp/1440567425/" target="_blank">Adams Media</a>, November 2013), <i>Dead Run </i>by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6541231.Dan_Schultz" target="_blank">Dan Schultz</a> (<a href="http://us.macmillan.com/deadrun/DanSchultz" target="_blank">St. Martin's Press</a>, March 2013)<i>, Beyond the Bear</i> by <a href="http://danbigley.com/" target="_blank">Dan Bigley</a> and <a href="http://danbigley.com/debra-mckinney/" target="_blank">Debra McKinney</a> (<a href="http://www.lyonspress.com/beyond_the_bear-9780762784554" target="_blank">Lyons Press</a>, March 2013), and more!<br />
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Laura, Jennifer, and Alice displayed their favorite parts of <i><a href="http://www.otisdooda.com/" target="_blank">Otis Dooda: Strange but True</a>, </i>written by <a href="http://www.ellenpotter.com/" target="_blank">Ellen Potter</a> and illustrated by <a href="http://www.davidheatley.com/" target="_blank">David Heatley</a> (<a href="http://us.macmillan.com/otisdooda/EllenPotter" target="_blank">Feiwel and Friends</a>, June 2013).<br />
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Two businessman on their way to lunch were super excited about <i>Otis Dooda</i> too!<br />
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As you can see below, Laura, Tara, and Jennifer were each intrigued by <i>Women, Sex, Power, and Pleasure </i>by <a href="http://evelynresh.dreamhosters.com/" target="_blank">Evelyn Resh</a> (<a href="http://www.hayhouse.com/details.php?id=7930" target="_blank">Hay House</a>, March 2013).<br />
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The delicious pie recipes in <i>Sweetie-Licious Pies </i>by <a href="http://www.sweetie-licious.com/" target="_blank">Linda Hundt</a> (<a href="http://www.skirtbooks.com/sweetie_licious_pies-9780762787524" target="_blank">Skirt! Books</a>, October 2013) got Laura's and Tara's attention.<br />
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When the train emptied out, Jennifer had fun reading <i>The Fate of Mercy Alban </i>by <a href="http://www.wendykwebb.com/" target="_blank">Wendy Webb</a> (<a href="http://hyperionbooks.com/book/the-fate-of-mercy-alban/" target="_blank">Hyperion</a>, February 2013).<br />
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When it was time for our subway adventure to end, Laura, Tara, and Jennifer got a little choked up reading the last book, <i>This Is How You Say Goodbye </i>from <a href="http://victorialoustalot.com/" target="_blank">Victoria Loustalot</a> (<a href="http://us.macmillan.com/thisishowyousaygoodbye/VictoriaLoustalot" target="_blank">St. Martin's Press</a>, September 2013).<br />
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Thanks for joining us on our subway adventure!<br />
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For more about our recent books, take a look through the <a href="http://jvnla.com/fiction.html" target="_blank">Recent and Upcoming Titles</a> section of our website--all of the books make for great holiday gifts!
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<br />Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16339959791717944880noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998867167282295105.post-46799951767794253832013-12-12T19:54:00.001-05:002013-12-12T19:54:13.142-05:00OUR PICNICS IN THE SUN is "a psychological dazzler," "a stunner," "transcendent"Award-winning mystery author <a href="http://www.moragjoss.com/" target="_blank">Morag Joss</a>'s latest, <i>Our Picnics in the Sun</i>, came out from <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/book/88876/our-picnics-in-the-sun-by-morag-joss" target="_blank">Delacorte Press/Random House</a> a few weeks ago. Already it's been receiving simply stellar reviews! <br />
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<a href="http://www.ew.com/ew/" target="_blank"><i>Entertainment Weekly</i></a> called <i>Our Picnics in the Sun</i> a “psychological dazzler” and named it to their “Must Read” list.<br />
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<a href="http://www.jsonline.com/entertainment/books/" target="_blank"><i>The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel</i></a> recently featured the book in a glowing review. The below excerpt gives you a taste of the book, as well as a sense of how stunning it is:<br />
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Told in multiple voices, <b>Joss' novel is a stunner</b>. <b>It's crime fiction the way Kate Atkinson is crime fiction</b> — a novel cleverly plotted around a single event that reaches out across the story in mysterious and menacing ways. Set in an isolated farm in the English moors, <i>Picnics in the Sun</i> examines the lives of Howard and Deborah after Howard has had a debilitating stroke. Their marriage is in decay; their lives, like their farmhouse, are crumbling. The plot becomes increasingly suspenseful as a festering event in their past infects their present and a stranger inserts himself cruelly into their lives.</blockquote>
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Don't miss the full review <a href="http://www.jsonline.com/entertainment/books/scottish-writers-morag-joss-and-t-frank-muir-brighten-the-moors-b99140198z1-232074251.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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NPR book critic Maureen Corrigan featured <i>Our Picnics in the Sun</i> on <a href="http://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/" target="_blank"><i>Fresh Air</i></a>. She said, “In addition to her uncanny powers of storytelling, Joss can capture a world in the space of a few charged words.”<br />
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You can listen to the <a href="http://www.npr.org/2013/11/26/247348387/thanksgivukkah-stress-getting-you-down-heres-a-literary-escape-plan" target="_blank">full review</a> below, in which Joss's book is paired up with some other recent reads that came out around the time of that one-in-every-78,000-years holiday, Thanksgivukkah.<br />
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Last but certainly not least, WBUR, Boston's NPR news station, featured Joss and <i>Our Picnics in the Sun</i> in its arts column, <a href="http://artery.wbur.org/" target="_blank"><i>The Artery</i></a>. Other books praised in the same article were Ruth Rendell's <i>No Man's Nightingale</i> and Jayne Anne Phillips's <i>Quiet Dell</i>. <br />
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In the article, critic Ed Siegel calls Rendell “the greatest living mystery writer,” but he argues that Joss's work is just as good. “Like Rendell,” he writes, “she's more interested in the psychological framing of her characters than in creating and then solving crimes. [Alice] Munro and William Trevor are more her literary heroes than Agatha Christie or P.D. James.” <br />
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Here's an excerpt of some of his other praise:<br />
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<i>Our Picnics in the Sun</i> is <b>[Joss's] gutsiest book yet</b> as there seemingly isn’t a likable character in it...Yet it turns out to be every bit as much of a pageturner, and a search for grace, as <i>Quiet Dell</i>. Much of that is due to Joss’s artful writing — <b>the psychological depth of her characters</b>, the description of the English countryside and the trust that one has in her, given the richness of her previous books...I’ve been re-reading parts of the book and I’m agape at what Joss pulls off here. These are two books [<i>Our Picnics in the Sun</i> and <i>Quiet Dell</i>] that <b>not only transcend their genres, they’re just plain transcendent</b>.</blockquote>
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You can find the full review in <i>The Artery</i> <a href="http://artery.wbur.org/2013/12/11/quiet-dell-picnics" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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Clearly, this suspenseful, gripping read isn't one to miss!<br />
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<a href="http://nanowrimo.org/" target="_blank">National Novel Writing Month</a> is that crazy time of year when writers drive themselves mad gunning for 50,000 words, a completed novel, and the glorious pride of writerly achievement, all by the end of November. Of course, it's also that time of year when agents become increasingly wary, concerned they'll receive NaNoWriMo manuscripts immediately on December 1... <br />
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After <a href="http://jeanvnaggarliteraryagency.blogspot.com/2012/11/as-nanowrimo-ends-weve-got-advice-avoid.html" target="_blank">doling out revision tips last year</a>, this year we wanted our JVNLA authors to weigh in with their own NaNoWriMo writing advice—whether it be related to revision, persistence, encouragement, or the craft of writing. <br />
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We didn't ask our authors to send advice in just any old, boring way, though. Instead, we took to Twitter!<br />
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Last Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, our authors flooded a portion of the Twitter-verse with <a href="https://twitter.com/JVNLA/lists/ourauthors" target="_blank">#JVNLAauthors</a> and #NaNoWriMo hashtags. They were responding to this tweet:<br />
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We've compiled the 44 tips and tricks they sent in below, with each tweet on its own line under the author's name.<br />
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Our expert authors write a variety of genres for a variety of ages, but their advice is perfect for anyone. Take a look!<br />
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<b>From <a href="http://www.victoriastrauss.com/" target="_blank">Victoria Strauss</a>, author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Passion-Blue-Victoria-Strauss/dp/0761462309/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1385501882&sr=1-1&keywords=passion+blue+strauss" target="_blank"><i>Passion Blue</i></a> (Skyscape, November 2012) </b><i><a href="https://twitter.com/victoriastrauss" target="_blank">@victoriastrauss</a></i> <br />
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You're challenging yourself, not competing against others<br />
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Take breaks. Go for a walk. Savor a cup of tea. Take a hot shower. Creativity blooms when you let your mind wander. <br />
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<b>From <a href="http://www.moragjoss.com/" target="_blank">Morag Joss</a>, author of <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/book/88876/our-picnics-in-the-sun-by-morag-joss#blurb_tabs" target="_blank"><i>Our Picnics in the Sun</i></a> (Delacorte Press, November 2013) </b><i><a href="https://twitter.com/moragjoss" target="_blank">@moragjoss</a></i><br />
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Keep going to the end of #NaNoWriMo and be proud. Then re-write. And re-write.<br />
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<b>From <a href="http://www.selenacoppock.com/" target="_blank">Selena Coppock</a>, author of <a href="http://www.harpercollins.com/books/New-Rules-Blondes-Selena-Coppock/?isbn=9780062131812" target="_blank"><i>The New Rules for Blondes</i></a> (It Books, April 2013) </b><a href="https://twitter.com/SelenaCoppock" target="_blank"><i>@SelenaCoppock</i></a><br />
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My advice 4 writers doing #NaNoWriMo? Straight-up disconnect the internet from your computer. And write to Arcade Fire :)<br />
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<b>From <a href="http://www.annemazerbooks.com/" target="_blank">Anne Mazer</a>, author of <a href="http://us.macmillan.com/spillinginkayoungwritershandbook/EllenPotter" target="_blank"><i>Spilling Ink: A Young Writer's Handbook </i></a>(Square Fish Books, March 2010) </b><a href="https://twitter.com/Annemazer" target="_blank"><i>@Annemazer </i></a><br />
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Listen deeply to your characters.<br />
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Don't be afraid to make mistakes - you can always fix them later. <br />
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<b>From <a href="http://www.adriennekress.com/author.html" target="_blank">Adrienne Kress</a>, author of <a href="http://www.diversionbooks.com/ebooks/outcast" target="_blank"><i>Outcast</i></a> (Diversion Books, May 2013) and <a href="http://www.us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780803737617,00.html" target="_blank"><i>The Friday Society</i></a> (Dial, December 2012) </b><a href="http://twitter.com/AdrienneKress" target="_blank"><i>@AdrienneKress </i></a><br />
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Hmm, I'd advise authors doing #NaNoWriMo to not be too self critical. This is the vomit on the page stage, just get it written! <br />
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<b>From <a href="http://jilliancantor.com/index.php" target="_blank">Jillian Cantor</a>, author of <a href="http://www.us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781594486432,00.html?Margot:_A_Novel_Jillian_Cantor" target="_blank"><i>Margot</i></a> (Riverhead, September 2013) </b><a href="http://twitter.com/JillianCantor" target="_blank"><i>@JillianCantor </i></a><br />
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Set small page/word goal per day and stick to it no matter what. I do 5 pgs/day<br />
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<b>From <a href="http://victorialoustalot.com/" target="_blank">Victoria Loustalot</a>, author of <a href="http://us.macmillan.com/thisishowyousaygoodbye/VictoriaLoustalot" target="_blank"><i>This Is How You Say Goodbye</i></a> (St. Martin's Press, September 2013) </b><a href="http://twitter.com/VLoustalot" target="_blank"><i>@VLoustalot </i></a><br />
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No outlines! Too much planning suffocates the chance for magic. <br />
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<b>From <a href="http://www.kristihelvig.com/" target="_blank">Kristi Helvig</a>, author of <a href="http://www.egmontusa.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781606844793" target="_blank"><i>Burn Out</i></a> (Egmont, April 2014) </b><a href="http://twitter.com/KristiHelvig" target="_blank"><i>@KristiHelvig </i></a><br />
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Just get the first draft down no matter what...it's supposed to be a hot mess!<br />
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Just remember not to submit that hot mess on Dec. 1. Take your time with edits!<br />
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<b>Regarding this, <a href="http://jeffryhalverson.com/" target="_blank">Jeffry Halverson</a></b><b>, author of <a href="http://www.potomacbooksinc.com/Books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=295632" target="_blank"><i>Searching for a King: Muslim Nonviolence and the Future of Islam</i></a> (Potomac Books, September 2012) </b><i>(<a href="http://twitter.com/JeffryHalverson" target="_blank">@JeffryHalverson</a>)</i><b>, asked... </b><br />
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<b>Other authors chimed in with answers:</b><br />
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<b>From <a href="http://susanschoenberger.com/" target="_blank">Susan Schoenberger</a>, author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Watershed-Year-Susan-Schoenberger/dp/1477848010/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1385503252&sr=1-1&keywords=a+watershed+year" target="_blank"><i>A Watershed Year</i></a> (Lake Union, November 2013) </b><a href="http://twitter.com/schoenwriter" target="_blank"><i>@schoenwriter </i></a><br />
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I second <a href="https://twitter.com/KristiHelvig" target="_blank">@KristiHelvig</a> Get it all down, and then make December #NaDeEdMo<br />
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Except it should probably be NaNoEdMo, now that I think about it.<br />
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<b>From Mark Ferguson, author of <i>The Lost Boys Symphony</i> (Little, Brown, forthcoming Summer 2015) </b><a href="http://twitter.com/thefergusonian" target="_blank">@thefergusonian </a><br />
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I say write forward. Don't edit what's already written. Doubt will slow you down. <br />
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Obviously you'll edit later, to be clear. That's why we call Dec-Oct #NaNoEdMo <br />
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<b>To this, Selena Coppock </b><i>(see her advice above)</i><b> responded... </b><br />
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<b>From <a href="http://www.mistydwaters.com/" target="_blank">M.D. Waters</a>, author of <a href="http://www.us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780525954231,00.html?strSrchSql=archetype+waters/Archetype_M._D._Waters" target="_blank"><i>Archetype</i></a> (Dutton, February 2014) </b><a href="https://twitter.com/_MDWaters" target="_blank"><i>@_MDWaters </i></a><br />
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Fun Fact: #ARCHETYPE was my 2011 #NaNoWriMo novel. Finished in 5 weeks.
Queried: May 2012 Agented: Oct 2012 SOLD: Dec 2012 #TakeYourTime <br />
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Use December to EDIT rather than QUERY. <br />
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Every scene needs a goal, motivation, and conflict... How else are you going to keep them entertained?<br />
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Your goal has motivation, but does it have CONFLICT?<br />
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Scene isn't working? Move characters to a new setting.<br />
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It takes more words to show a scene, fewer to tell it.<br />
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Pinterest is NOT your WIP. Neither is this, so stop reading<br />
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Lose your muse? Steal someone else's. It's fair game.<br />
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Your antag has a story. I bet they even have good intentions.<br />
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That emotion you want to share? Amplify by 10 and write THAT.<br />
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Dishes? What dishes? That's what minions are for. WRITE <br />
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<b>From Robert Repino, author of <i>Mort(e)</i> (Soho Press, forthcoming Fall 2014) </b><a href="http://twitter.com/Repino1" target="_blank"><i>@Repino1 </i></a><br />
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This year trade football and Friday morning shopping for writing.<br />
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<b>From <a href="http://www.ellenpotter.com/" target="_blank">Ellen Potter</a>, author of <a href="http://us.macmillan.com/otisdooda/EllenPotter" target="_blank"><i>Otis Dooda: Strange but True</i></a> (Feiwel and Friends, June 2013) and <i><a href="http://us.macmillan.com/spillinginkayoungwritershandbook/EllenPotter" target="_blank">Spilling Ink: A Young Writer's Handbook</a> </i>(Square Fish Books, March 2010) </b><a href="http://twitter.com/Ellenpotter" target="_blank"><i>@Ellenpotter </i></a><br />
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When you get stuck, take your dog for a walk. Seriously, it works wonders. <br />
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Pledge that if u don't finish the novel you'll give $ to least fave organization<br />
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<b>From <a href="http://www.ellisavery.com/" target="_blank">Ellis Avery</a>, author of <a href="http://www.us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781594486470,00.html" target="_blank"><i>The Last Nude</i></a> (Riverhead, December 2012) and <a href="http://www.crumpledpress.org/publications/brokenrooms.html" target="_blank"><i>Broken Rooms: Haiku and Sculpture</i></a> (The Crumpled Press, February 2014) </b><a href="https://twitter.com/EllisAveryNYC" target="_blank"><i>@EllisAveryNYC</i></a> <br />
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Let your characters want something. What do I mean? <a href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052970204909104577237111522726938" target="_blank">http://online.wsj.com/news/articles...</a><br />
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<b>Here's an excerpt from that <i>Wall Street Journal</i> article, written by Avery:</b><br />
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Many of us have read subtle, well-wrought stories in which a character's most secret soul is illuminated—and yet (yawn) nothing really happens. The writer tried too hard to Make the Reader Care. There are also pyrotechnically masterful stories in which cars explode and the world ends—and yet (ho-hum) nobody cares. The writer tried too hard to Make Something Happen. To avoid both problems, I've found it helpful to ask three questions: What does my character want? What keeps my character from getting what he or she wants? Does my character get what he or she wants in the end or not?</blockquote>
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<b>From <a href="http://www.wendykwebb.com/" target="_blank">Wendy Webb</a>, author of <a href="http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/wendy-webb/the-vanishing/9781401341947/" target="_blank"><i>The Vanishing</i></a> (Hyperion, January 2014) and <a href="http://hyperionbooks.com/book/the-fate-of-mercy-alban/" target="_blank"><i>The Fate of Mercy Alban</i></a> (Hyperion, February 2013) </b><i><a href="https://twitter.com/wendykwebb" target="_blank">@wendykwebb</a></i> <br />
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Write each day, very early or late, as your household sleeps. No distractions. <br />
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Also: Set a goal for number of words, and stick to it. <br />
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Also: No social media or email until you reach your word count goal. <br />
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<b>From <a href="http://www.timothyschaffert.com/" target="_blank">Timothy Schaffert</a>, author of <a href="http://www.us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781594486098,00.html?strSrchSql=swan+gondola/The_Swan_Gondola_Timothy_Schaffert" target="_blank"><i>The Swan Gondola</i></a> (Riverhead, February 2014) and <a href="http://unbridledbooks.com/our_books/book/the_coffins_of_little_hope" target="_blank"><i>The Coffins of Little Hope</i></a> (Unbridled Books, April 2011) </b><a href="http://twitter.com/timschaffert" target="_blank"><i>@timschaffert </i></a><br />
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If a scene's not working, move characters onto a different set; one that's unexpected: rooftop, bottom of an empty pool.<br />
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<b>Or the bottom of a...full pool.</b> <br />
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<b>From <a href="http://www.susanskelly.com/" target="_blank">Susan Kelly</a>, author of <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7327384-by-accident?from_search=true" target="_blank"><i>By Accident</i></a> (Pegasus Books, May 2010) </b><i><a href="http://twitter.com/susankellynovel" target="_blank">@susankellynovel </a></i><br />
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Go ahead and get up in the middle of the night to change "turn" to "pivot" and remove the exclamation marks.<br />
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<b>From <a href="http://alexcrenwick.com/" target="_blank">Alex C. Renwick</a> (aka Camille Alexa), author of <a href="http://store.untreedreads.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=601" target="_blank"><i>Push of the Sky</i></a> (Untreed Reads, October 2012) </b><i><a href="http://twitter.com/AlexCRenwick" target="_blank">@AlexCRenwick </a></i><br />
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Don't overthink it...At least, not until AFTER you have a draft.<br />
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<b>From <a href="http://dorothyhearst.com/" target="_blank">Dorothy Hearst</a>, author of <a href="http://books.simonandschuster.com/Secrets-of-the-Wolves/Dorothy-Hearst/9781416570011" target="_blank"><i>Secrets of the Wolves</i></a> (Simon and Schuster, July 2012) </b><i><a href="http://twitter.com/DorothyHearst" target="_blank">@DorothyHearst </a></i><br />
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Make character influence action, and action change your characters<br />
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<b>From <a href="http://www.ghettogenius.com/" target="_blank">J-Wunder</a>, author of <a href="http://www.diversionbooks.com/ebooks/waitwhat-life-advice-ghetto-genius" target="_blank"><i>Wait...What?!: Life Advice from a Ghetto Genius</i></a> (Diversion Books, July 2013) </b><i><a href="https://twitter.com/MrJWunderful" target="_blank">@MrJWunderful </a></i><br />
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drink until you feel the creative juices flow! <br />
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<b>From <a href="http://www.nancyspringer.com/" target="_blank">Nancy Springer</a>, author of <a href="http://www.us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780451239761,00.html?Drawn_Into_Darkness_Nancy_Springer" target="_blank"><i>Drawn into Darkness</i></a> (NAL, November 2013) </b><a href="http://twitter.com/NancySpringer" target="_blank"><i>@NancySpringer </i></a><br />
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Talking about your novel-to-be depletes the energy you need to write it. Don't blow it away w your mouth. Write it. <br />
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"Show, don't tell" = the reader visualizes everything you say. So be careful. Eyes fall (onto the floor?), roll...<br />
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Most likely yr critique group will focus on the surface of yr novel. Dig deeper. Think structure, story logic.<br />
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Find out the goofy way I got started writing in my new Goodreads post: <a class="twitter-timeline-link" data-expanded-url="https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/5261469-how-i-got-started" data-original-title="https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/5261469-how-i-got-started" dir="ltr" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/5261469-how-i-got-started" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="tco-ellipsis"></span><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="js-display-url">goodreads.com/author_blog_po</span><span class="tco-ellipsis">…</span></a> <br />
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<b>From <a href="http://www.patryfrancis.com/" target="_blank">Patry Francis</a>, author of <a href="http://harpercollins.com/books/Orphans-Race-Point-Patry-Francis/?isbn=9780062281302" target="_blank"><i>The Orphans of Race Point</i></a> (Harper Perennial, May 2014) and <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/167091.The_Liar_s_Diary" target="_blank"><i>The Liar's Diary</i></a> (Dutton, 2007) </b><a href="http://twitter.com/patryf" target="_blank">@patryf </a><br />
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"Don't confine truth to facts." 5 Writing Tips: Paul Harding <a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/tip-sheet/article/60070-5-writing-tips-paul-harding.html" target="_blank">publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/in…</a> via <a href="https://twitter.com/PublishersWkly" target="_blank">@PublishersWkly</a><br />
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<b>From <a href="http://helenmarylesshankman.com/" target="_blank">Helen Maryles Shankman</a>, author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Color-Light-Helen-Maryles-Shankman/dp/1490473246/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1385505312&sr=1-1&keywords=the+color+of+light" target="_blank"><i>The Color of Light</i></a> (Stony Creek Press, October 2013) </b><a href="http://twitter.com/hmshankman" target="_blank"><i>@hmshankman </i></a><br />
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What you write when you're inspired--and what you write when you're not inspired--by the time you're done editing...<br />
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...you won't know which was which. Just keep writing!<br />
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<br />Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16339959791717944880noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998867167282295105.post-76877314760669181082013-11-22T20:02:00.001-05:002013-11-22T20:02:05.667-05:00A memoir for World AIDS Day: THIS IS HOW YOU SAY GOODBYEIn <a href="http://victorialoustalot.com/" target="_blank">Victoria Loustalot</a>'s recent interview on WNYC's <i><a href="http://www.wnyc.org/story/how-you-say-goodbye/" target="_blank">The Leonard Lopate Show</a></i>, she describes herself as part of an “in-between generation,” one that bore witness to the transformation of AIDS from death sentence to survivable disease.<br />
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Loustalot is the author of <i>This Is How You Say Goodbye</i>, released by <a href="http://us.macmillan.com/thisishowyousaygoodbye/VictoriaLoustalot" target="_blank">St. Martin's Press</a> this fall. Subtitled “A Daughter's Memoir,” the book is an exploration of Loustalot's relationship with her father, his experience with AIDS, his eventual suicide in the face of deteriorating health, and Loustalot's attempt—years later—to fulfill his promise to her of a trip around the world. <br />
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Part of what makes this memoir so “heart-wrenching” (<i>Booklist</i>), “bittersweet” (<i>Kirkus</i>), and “probing” (<i>Publishers Weekly</i>) can likely be traced to Loustalot's membership in this “in-between generation.” Her father was among the last group of people who contracted HIV for whom effective treatment did not yet exist. Only after his death did living with AIDS become a possibility.<br />
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In her interview, Loustalot explains how difficult it was to be “in-between” and consequently witness both sides of the AIDS crisis: <br />
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I spent the first half of my childhood seeing what the AIDS of dying looked like up close and personal, and then the second half of my childhood, after my father's death, seeing this whole new vision and life of what AIDS and HIV could mean for somebody. And so to have one foot in each, and reconciling myself with that and growing up with that duality....I think...now is the moment for people to be talking about this. Because it wasn't that long ago, and I think we've forgotten what it looked like.</blockquote>
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You can listen to Loustalot's full interview below:<br />
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December 1 is World AIDS Day. Events surrounding the day have already begun and will continue through the beginning of December. <a href="http://www.worldaidscampaign.org/world-aids-day/" target="_blank"> According to WorldAidsCampaign.org</a>, World AIDS Day has been held since 1988 as “an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV, show their support for people living with HIV and to commemorate people who have died.”</div>
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In commemorating her father's experience with AIDS and chronicling her own journey to come to terms with his death, Loustalot's memoir does exactly what World AIDS Day sets out to do in its mission. If, as Loustalot says, now is the time to start talking about how AIDS has affected our generation, there is no better way to begin the conversation than with <i>This Is How You Say Goodbye</i>.</div>
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Below are some of the excellent reviews <i>This Is How You Say Goodbye</i> has received since its release:</div>
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“Eloquent...<b>Gently probing, reflective</b>...Loustalot’s careful, deliberative prose delineates a young woman’s arduous passage to self-realization.” --<i>Publishers Weekly </i><br />
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“Moving...By turns sweet...and heart-wrenching...<b>Loustalot writes with courage and candor</b> about bidding her beloved father a final farewell.” --<i>Booklist</i><br />
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“<b>Compelling reading</b>. An intimate portrait of a bittersweet father-daughter relationship.” --<i>Kirkus</i><br />
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"Moves between past and present and is told in frank, detailed narrative marked by <b>irony, heartache and some humor</b>." --<i>Sacramento Bee</i><br />
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“<b>A remarkable accomplishment.</b> A riveting narrative that lays bare how important it is to come to terms with the past, this honest and heartrending memoir is for everybody who has ever tried to find his or her place in their family and in the world.” --Julie Klam, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>You Had Me at Woof</i> and <i>Friendkeeping</i><br />
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"Loustalot's memoir will resonate with anyone who has ever tried to resolve the complexities of an enigmatic parent, or plumb what lies at the heart of the filial bond. Her uncommon intelligence, wit, and compassion shine through in this beautifully realized memoir...<b>A beguiling writer...a smashing debut.</b>" --Alexandra Styron, bestselling author of <i>Reading My Father </i><br />
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“<b>Lyrical, thoughtful</b>, often humorous prose...What Loustalot has written is a love story—a moving, aching love story to the father she never knew. It will resonate for all who have loved and lost, and who wish to heal.” --Kerry Cohen, bestselling author of <i>Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity </i></div>
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<br />Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16339959791717944880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998867167282295105.post-56219737196338705992013-11-15T17:17:00.000-05:002013-11-15T17:17:59.758-05:00Pie Perfection: Adventures in baking with the perfect cookbook for the holiday season<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;">By <a href="http://jvnla.com/our_team.html" target="_blank">Elizabeth Evans</a></span></div>
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Of the many milestones in a book’s publication, my favorite is opening the delivery box and picking up a finished copy of my client’s book for the first time. I recently opened the delivery box to find <a href="http://www.sweetie-licious.com/" target="_blank">Linda Hundt</a>’s charming retro cookbook, <i>Sweetie-licious Pies</i>, published last month by <a href="http://www.skirtbooks.com/sweetie_licious_pies-9780762787524" target="_blank">Skirt! Books</a>. <br />
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<i>Sweetie-licious Pies</i> is the first cookbook I’ve represented, and I couldn’t wait to see how the photographs, text and recipes had come together. The final product exceeded my expectations--I am so proud of this beautiful package! <br />
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Featuring fifty-two original recipes, accompanied by gorgeous photos of Linda’s farm in Michigan and mouth-watering images of the pies themselves, <i>Sweetie-licious Pies</i> is the most heavily designed book I’ve worked with yet. I spent a solid hour pouring over the images and re-reading the heart-warming stories behind the creation of each pie. I was so inspired that by the time I set the book down, I vowed to do something I’d never attempted before--bake. <br />
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I do not exaggerate when I tell you I don’t have a sweet tooth. In the epic battle of sweet vs. savory, savory always wins in my book. As a kid, I’d turn over my Halloween candy to my brother and sister with a nonchalant shrug and watch them fight over the spoils. To this day, I’ll take a bag of potato chips over chocolate every time. All of which might make you wonder--why does someone who doesn’t like dessert have a pie cookbook on her list? I’ll tell you--it’s all about the crust. I love pie crust. It’s the perfect savory balance to a sugary dessert, the salty yin to fruit’s sweet yang. On a restaurant menu, pie is the one dessert that tempts me, but I’d never tried to bake my own--until the other Sunday. <br />
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With <a href="http://www.sweetie-licious.com/Awards.aspx" target="_blank">sixteen-time national pie-baking champion</a> Linda Hundt’s beautiful cookbook to guide me, I figured I had a good shot at success. I enlisted the help of my in-house photographer/husband to document my baking adventure.<br />
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Here’s a little photo show of how it all went down:<br />
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To take advantage of the autumn’s delicious apples, I decided to make “Mom Hundt’s Apple Almond Pie” (p88). I lined up all my ingredients and set to work. <br />
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This pie calls for a homemade cream cheese crust. Following Linda’s easy recipe (p2), I used my standing mixer for the first time ever and later shaped the dough into a disk to cool in the fridge. <br />
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After the dough cooled in the fridge, I rolled it out and carefully placed it over the pie pan. Then into the freezer it went! Linda always recommends working with a frozen crust. <br />
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Next step was preparing the apple almond filling. The smells of cinnamon-apple goodness coming from this pot were incredible! After I assembled the pie and popped it in the oven, my trusty sidekick Finn helped me by licking some of the measuring utensils clean. <br />
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Voila--Mom Hundt’s Apple Almond Pie! <br />
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Baking this pie was a blast, but the final result didn’t last long. Between a little slice here and a tiny bite there, we polished off the pie in just a few days. Luckily, we had extra apples from our trip to the farmer’s market and most of the ingredients needed to bake another. <br />
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Behold Round Two: Grandma Ferrell’s Caramel Apple pie (p146)!<br />
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Apparently I’m not the only one who’s had apple pies on the brain. <a href="http://www.foodandwine.com/slideshows/americas-best-apple-pies#!slide=1" target="_blank"><i>Food and Wine Magazine</i></a> just named Linda’s “Laura’s Sticky Toffee Pudding Caramel Apple Pie” as one of America’s Best Apple Pies. Check out the mouth-watering slide show in which Linda’s pie has top billing <a href="http://www.foodandwine.com/slideshows/americas-best-apple-pies#!slide=12" target="_blank">here</a>. <br />
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<a href="http://www.midwestliving.com/" target="_blank"><i>Midwest Living</i></a> also recently featured Linda and <i>Sweetie-licious Pies</i>. The cookbook is featured as a Midwest favorite in the magazine's Holiday Gift Guide. <br />
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So this holiday season, whether you're planning what to give for holiday gifts or what to make for holiday dessert, look no further than <i>Sweetie-licious Pies</i>!<br />
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Below are some of the great things people have been saying about <i>Sweetie-licious Pies</i>:<br />
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“Linda Hundt brings you the sweetness of pie and <b>blends it with tradition, family, nostalgia, and fabulous recipes</b> into one thoroughly all-American pie cookbook.” --Debbie Macomber, <i>New York Times</i> and <i>USA Today</i> bestselling author of <i>Starting Now</i> and <i>The Inn At Rose Harbor</i><br />
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“Linda Hundt is like the world's greatest pie librarian and <i>Sweetie-licious</i> is <b>a colorful, approachable, pie-lover's dream</b>. It's as if Linda collected the best possible pie recipes from the world's coolest grandmothers, vintage church supper cookbooks, and route 66 diners, then sprinkled them with her own unique and talented voodoo. Get ready to put this book in your 'most frequently used' part of your kitchen library.” --Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito, authors of <i>Baked Elements: Our 10 Favorite Ingredients</i> <br />
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“With the glide of a rolling pin, <i>Sweeti-Licious Pies</i> <b>transports you to Small Town America</b>, where pies cool on the windowsill, there's a watering can in the garden, and everyone gathers for family dinner. Linda Hundt is truly changing the world, one pie at a time. Make mine a slice of The Farmette's Blueberry Basil Cream Pie!” --Judith Fertig, author of <i>Heartland: The Cookbook</i><br />
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