BLISS is happy to welcome Willy Farrar Blackmore to the BLISS Literary team. He starts February 2nd so please feel free to contact him if your book fits what he is looking for!
First Books On The Shelves !!!
It is the hardest and most wonderful thing to wait to see your manuscript turned into a galley, then to finally receive the first copy of your trade paper or hardcover book. It is a whole other ball game to actually see it on shelves in bookstores (or Target) and to actually see someone reading it on the subway or perusing the pages while sipping their mocha latte.
Kudos to Diana Rodriguez Wallach for (the first book in her YA novel series) AMOR AND SUMMER SECRETS and Ivan Sanchez for NEXT STOP. It's been a long and wonderful journey! Glad to be on it with you! BLISS wishes you many wonderful book spottings!!!!
You Have Our Applause!!!
Congratulations are in order to:
Jen Nadol for the sale of her debut YA novel MARKED;
Jackson Pearce for the sale of her second young adult novel SISTERS RED to Little, Brown;
Sherry Ellis for the sale of her second writing book Now Write! Nonfiction to Tarcher/Penguin;
Ivan Sanchez and DJ "Disco" Wiz for the sale of their groundbreaking memoir, IT'S JUST BEGUN, about Wiz's experiences and triumphs as the first Latino hip hop DJ to powerHouse Books;
Seventeen-year-old Hannah Moskowitz for the sale of her new YA novel BREAK to Simon Pulse;
American Book Award winner, Reyna Grande for the sale of her new novel DANCING WITH BUTTERFLIES to Atria; and
Traci E. Alexander and Naomi Tutu for the sale of NOW THAT I KNOW WHAT I KNOW: LETTERS FROM AMAZING AND AFRICAN and AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN ON THE JOURNEY OF MOTHERHOOD to Touchstone.
On The Wild Side:
As always kudos to young adult fiction writers Jackson Pearce and Amanda Morgan for their ground-breaking, informative, and entertaining vblogs (vlogs) on various aspects of the writing process. They have been featured several times for being vblogging (vlogging) pioneers and two of the funniest clips can be seen in the March 2008 issue of TV WEEK. Visit link: http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/trial-and-error/