March 4, 2010

I’ve Got Some Fancy Friends

By cmbaker ¶ Posted in Uncategorized ¶ Tagged Andrea Brown Literary, Brian Farrey, Courtney Allison Moulton, Courtney Schwartz, Flux, Hilary Wagner, Holiday House, Jen K Blom, Lisa Albert, Lisa and Laura Roecker, Mary Kole, Possum Summer, Pub Lunch ¶ 5 Comments

Not to brag, but I have some pretty awesome friends. Just this week I’ve had not one, but TWO friends get the official book deal goodness.

Huge congratulations to Lisa Albert! Check out the Pub Lunch deal:

Lisa Albert’s MERCY LILY, about an Oregon teenager faced with a heartbreaking choice about her ill mother, to Brian Farrey at Flux, for publication in Fall 2011, by Mary Kole at Andrea Brown Literary Agency.

Really excited for her to join the ranks of Flux authors and, of course, to get to read MERCY LILY!

And another round of celebratory applause to the wonderful Jen K Blom, who not only sold her book, but is also about to have her first baby. Ummm I swear some days I think I’m busy?

Jen’s book POSSUM SUMMER will be out from Holiday House in Fall 2011. You can read her sale story here.

It’s very weird/strange/awesome/exhilarating to start to see all the people I entered the writing game with getting deals all the sudden. It has honestly been a flood lately. Lisa and Laura Roecker, Hilary Wagner, Courtney Allison Moulton, and Corey Schwartz just to name a few more…

One of the ways I became friends with a lot of these gals (not all) is because I was looking for people that didn’t sell five seconds after landing an agent. Well, this recent onslaught of deals just goes to show that a little pig-headed determination goes a long way. Congratulations again to Lisa and Jen! Can’t wait to look crazy taking pictures in Barnes and Noble of your books on the shelf with my handy dandy iPhone!

May 20, 2009

Here’s A Question For Ya–Houses Doing Teen Covers Right

By cmbaker ¶ Posted in Here's a Question ¶ Tagged Alyson Noel, Blue is For Nightmares, book cover, Breathe My Name, Cast, Courtney Summers, Cracked Up To Be, Devilish, Evermore, Flux, Heather Duffy Stone, imprints, Jay Asher, Laurie Faria Stolarz, Lucienne Diver, Maureen Johnson, Penguin, Publishing, R.A. Nelson, Razorbill, St. Martins Press, teen, Thirteen Reasons Why, This is What I Want to Tell you, Untamed, Vamped, YA ¶ 4 Comments

FLUX

RAZORBILL (PENGUIN)

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ST. MARTINS

CrackedUpToBe UnTamed Evermore

Cover envy. I have it. I love browsing through books online or in bookstores and looking at covers. It’s fun to think about which covers work and why. But I realized recently that I rarely look at covers by imprint or by publishing house. So, I’ve spent a few days going through the covers at different imprints to see if I noticed any trends or if any house’s covers particularly stood out to me. I only looked at YA imprints so keep that in mind. In fact, I started thinking about this in the first place when I notice how amazingly awesome all Flux’s covers are. So big round of applause for Flux on the cover front! Anyway, these are the imprints that I think are creating particularly standout covers for teens. Lucky authors and lucky readers who get to have these fab novels gracing their bookshelves.

How about y’all? Are their any houses whose covers you consistently love?