Getting An Agent Won’t Change Your Life
“I love these pages. This is exactly the type of novel I represent. Send it to me!” The agent was saying all the things you dream an agent will say when you sign up for a Manuscript Mart appointment at…
Category: Children’s Books
Author Pamela Erens Talks About Her First Children’s Novel, Matasha
In her new novel, Matasha, Pamela Erens, the acclaimed author of Eleven Hours, The Virgins, and The Understory, writes for children for the first time. Matasha earned a Kirkus starred review and this rave review from Meg Wolitzer in the New…
Interview with Sandy Stark-McGinnis, Author of The Space Between Lost and Found
Sandy Stark-McGinnis has written a poignant and beautiful book about 11-year-old Cassie Rodrigues, her mother who has early-onset Alzheimer’s, and a bucket-list adventure they take together. Stark-McGinnis takes on the challenge of Alzheimer’s without being sentimental or simplistic, allowing young…
Virtual Book Tour: Alice Kaltman, The Tantalizing Tale of Grace Minnaugh
What is your middle-grade novel about? The Tantalizing Tale of Grace Minnaugh (Fitzroy Books) is about an eleven-year-old girl who reluctantly moves from the Midwest to Southern California. One fateful morning, while taking a predawn swim, Grace is caught in…
Young Adult Round-up: The Power of Online YA Police
As an American who’s written a novel about an American girl caught up in political turmoil in Honduras that includes Honduran characters, I’m particularly concerned about controversies like the one blowing up on the Twittersphere over the YA book, A…
Do you know Geraldine McCaughrean? You should.
Geraldine McCaughrean (pronounced Muh-cork-run) is not a household name, like that other British children’s mega-author you might have heard of. But Geraldine is actually more prolific and has won far more literary awards than that other celebrity writer. She’s penned more…