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We're hosting 2 webinars on chapter books and early reader graphic novels! Editor's perspective with @emilydaluga.bsky.social on 11/3 and agent's perspective with Rachel Orr on 11/13. Find out more in this interview by @kcstrocchia.bsky.social.
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Y'all are not ready for how rad this book is going to be! I was obsessed from the minute I opened Eoin's gorgeous pitch, and I've just grown even more and more excited about this book as time has gone on. It's going to be visually stunning and give you so many big feelings. Get hyped!! ✨🧚🖤
There are so many incredible titles on this list, but I’m especially proud of YOUNG HAG by Isabel Greenberg, which I had the total joy of editing. If you haven’t read it, please do! It’s funny, poignant, and just so unique and rad. I’m so glad it exists and is getting this incredible recognition!! ✨
Good morning Bluesky !
Charlie Brown in the Peanuts comic strip, looking sad, enters a shop. He says, "I'm discouraged today, and when I get discouraged, a comic magazine is the only thing that will revive me."
You and me both, Charlie Brown.
Let’s make books handout for kids, detailing various roles in making books; author, illustrator, editor, designer, marketing/publicity, librarians/booksellers/teachers and finally readers.
Two worksheets, “be a writer” with a writing mad lib, and “be an illustrator” with some drawing prompts.
Two more worksheets, “be an editor” with editorial marks to practice on some editable sentences, and “be a cover designer” with four books needing covers.
Two final handouts: “be a librarian, bookseller or teacher” with six kids and six books to match, and “be a reader” with preferences in genre and types of books to narrow your reading preferences to help find more books to enjoy.
Here is a handout I made for my kid’s class last week, when I went in to talk to them about making books. I Frankensteined together a bunch of art I already had to make it, and filled other stuff in. But it was a big hit, so I’m sharing it here in case you know any kids interested in making books!
YAY!! Congrats, Lee!! Happiest of pub days!! So immensely proud of these books, and hope you get to celebrate lots today!! 🖤
A SINGLE BRUTAL FATE is finally out in the world!! Lee has crafted such a twisting and pacey read here, and it’s so thrilling to see how this duology ends. It’s been such a joy to get to work on, and a series I just love so much as both an editor and reader. Go check it out!!! 🐦⬛🗡️✨🖤
A graphic showing the cover of a SINGLE BRUTAL FATE. The cover shows Rat, a white non-binary teenager in a dark cloak, and Harker, a white trans boy of the same age with long, dark hair, hurrying down a dramatically lit stone stairway. Rat holds a ring of keys, and the two are surrounded by magic and wisps of spell fire.
A SINGLE BRUTAL FATE is officially out🖤 🗡️
Similar to the finished artwork but warmer in colors. One of the sorcerers is holding a lantern and compass instead of a ring of keys
Similar to the finished artwork but warmer in colors. One of the sorcerers is holding a lantern and compass instead of a ring of keys
Similar to the finished artwork but outdoors. One of the sorcerers is holding a lantern instead of a ring of keys
Similar to the finished artwork but warmer in colors and outdoors. A shattered tower castle is visible in the distance
This is artwork for the novel by Lee Paige O’Brien. The second in the broken tower series. Here are some sketches
A graphic with a background is made up of a diagonal oriented 6-stripe rainbow. In the middle is a white white grid outline with a column on the left that has the release date in white over a green rectangle and book covers in three rows of 4 book covers each. Each spot has a book cover.
How to Survive a Slasher by Justine Pucella Winans
Worth Waiting For by Kristin Keppler
Stag Dance: A Novel & Stories by Torrey Peters
A Single Brutal Fate by Lee Paige O’Brien
Baby Blue by Bim Eriksson
Go Luck Yourself (Royals & Romance Book 2) by Sara Raasch
"The résumé information “restores the meaning to the passages that are being used to lampoon them” and counteracts the tactics censors use to target material."
Yay! Yes, I'm so excited to read. Thank you so much for thinking of me for it! :)
Madeline’s witchy YA graphic novel has everything: great humor, big heart, an angry swamp witch, AND a goose! Everyone get hyped cause this book is gonna ROCK!!!! 🧙🪿✨🖤
We did it, buddy!!! 🎉🎉
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Eric is such an incredible writer, and I’m just over the moon to get to bring this stellar new middle grade to the Chronicle list!! Get hyped for 2027!!! 🚀👩🚀✨🎉
Yay! Love a good novel in verse. Excited to see the project when it comes my way. :)
Yes! Very excited to read!! 😊
Sounds super cool and definitely up my alley! Love a good scary doll, and we should talk about menstruation more!
You can find more info about my submission guidelines and other projects I'd be excited to find on my MSWL here: www.manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/em...
Excited to see new projects in my inbox! 🖤
Happy #MSWL Day! I only accept agented submissions, but wanted to get into the fun. I'm an editor over at Chronicle Books, and I would love to find more MG novels this year—especially ones that feature queer kiddos with big feelings, are a KNIVES OUT-style mystery, or use horror as metaphor! 🏳️🌈🕵️😈
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met nearly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.”
Today, on Shirley Jackson’s birthday, let’s all marvel at one of the greatest opening paragraphs ever written (from THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE)
I rounded up what I think are the 75 Best YA Books of 2024*
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*75 books I REALLY loved of the 250 I read and I actually like/loved most of them or at least know who to recommend it to
We need to keep talking about how weird it is for people to think they should have a say in reading choices for anyone's kids but their own. You're not in charge of what other people's children eat or wear or when they go to bed. Why on earth would you get to choose what they read?
Thank you! Nice to meet you too! ☺️
