Another Star!
Woot! Another starred review for a star of kt literary — this time, Ellen Booraem‘s second middle grade novel, Small Persons With Wings. Publishers Weekly writes: In a fairy story that’s wistful,...
View ArticleThree More Reviews!
This time of year is super exciting here at kt literary. Not only are the holidays approaching, and with it, our annual closure to queries and a chance to get caught up on reading for pleasure, but...
View ArticleA Year in Queries
I had great intentions this year to post quarterly status reports on my query stats, but I seem to have missed a quarter (here’s April and July, at least). A quick recap: in the first three months of...
View ArticleThree Stars for SMALL PERSONS! (And THREE contests)
Huzzah! We just got news of our third starred review for Ellen Booraem‘s Small Persons With Wings, this one from School Library Journal‘s forthcoming January edition: When 13-year-old Mellie Turpin was...
View ArticleA Final Burst of Good News
I’m thrilled to share some good news to get this holiday break off to an excellent start! First, let’s announce the winners of our contests, shall we? First up, Anne C. wins a kt literary tote bag for...
View ArticleSome of that Good News I Hinted About
First, there was this: Author of ANNA AND THE FRENCH KISS and the Fall 2011 title LOLA AND THE BOY NEXT DOOR, Stephanie Perkins’s ISLA AND THE HAPPILY EVER AFTER, again to Julie Strauss-Gabel at Dutton...
View ArticleKT Literary Retreat 2011
This past weekend, I had the pleasure of meeting with ten of my authors for our first annual KT Literary Retreat, in Estes Park, Colorado. And I do mean “meet”, at least in 8 out of ten cases. The...
View ArticleCongrats to my favorite SMALL PERSONS!
Publishers Weekly has announced the Best Books of 2011, and I’m thrilled that Ellen Booraem‘s Small Persons With Wings made the cut! Call them Parvi Pennati, call them Small Persons with Wings, just...
View ArticleSMALL PERSONS is another “Best”
Congratulations are due, once again, to Ellen Booraem! Small Person With Wings lands on yet another “Best Children’s Books of 2011” list, this time with thanks to the lovely folks at Kirkus Reviews!...
View ArticleAn UNDERWORLD giveaway!
This might be my last blog post for a while, unless I have some more exciting news to share (hint, hint, I do!), but I couldn’t let the official pub week of TEXTING THE UNDERWORLD by Ellen Booarem go...
View ArticleGetting back up to speed with exciting news!
After two weeks off for the holidays, it always takes a while to get back up to speed. Add on top of that almost five months of being closed to queries, and I’m finding it a fun challenge to remember...
View ArticleThree French Hens
Well, not hens so much as ravens. Sort of. In Ellen Booraem’s Texting the Underworld, they’re just called The Birds: There they were, the three Birds perched on a roost thirty feet away. They were...
View Article#TBT – THE UNNAMEABLES by Ellen Booraem
I always love following the Throwback Thursday hashtag on Twitter or Facebook, and today, I thought I’d play along with my own bookish version! To the left, below, the original hardcover edition of The...
View ArticleArt Conquers All with Ellen Booraem
I’m delighted to share another true love story, this one about art and love, and, eventually, inspiration. Ellen Booraem is the author of The Unnameables, Small Persons with Wings, and Texting the...
View ArticleOn the Podcast! Ellen Booraem and Deva Fagan
Today, I have the privilege of speaking with two of our Powerhouse Middle Grade authors, Ellen Booraem and Deva Fagan. These women are both from Maine and they both write beautiful, sharp, emotionally...
View ArticleHappy Book Birthday to RIVER MAGIC!
Happy Book Birthday to Ellen Booraem and RIVER MAGIC! RIVER MAGIC introduces Donna Landon, a feisty Maine girl who’s talented with her hands but not in the classroom. Grieving the death of her beloved...
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