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Lauren Oliver has signed a deal with HarperCollins Children’s Books. She plans to write a new young adult duology; the first book will be called Replica.
According to EpicReads.com, this science-fiction story follows “a girl named Lyra, known by the number 24, a replica—human model–who was born, raised, and observed in a clandestine research facility called the Haven Institute. When Lyra escapes from Haven and meets Gemma, a stranger on a perilous quest of her own, earth-shattering secrets are revealed.”
Rosemary Brosnan, an editorial director, negotiated the deal with Stephen Barbara, a literary agent at InkWell Management. The publication date has been scheduled for Sept. 2016.
Writer Rhoda Belleza has signed a two-book deal with the Penguin Young Readers imprint, Razorbill. She plans to create a young adult novel entitled Empress of a Thousand Skies.
Associate editor Tiffany Liao negotiated the deal with InkWell Management literary agent Stephen Barbara. Barbara represented the literary development company Paper Lantern Lit.
According to the announcement, the story for Belleza’s first book follows “two sisters — sole survivors of a murdered royal lineage – must reunite from opposite ends of the galaxy to salvage what’s left of their family dynasty and save the universe from a greater threat.” The publisher has set the release date for Spring 2017.
Literary agent Stephen Barbara will move from Foundry Literary + Media to InkWell Management.
Barbara devoted six years of his career to Foundry. His start date at InkWell is scheduled for January 05, 2015.
Barbara’s full roster of 50 clients will follow him. Some of the authors that Barbara represents includes Rooms author Lauren Oliver, renowned children’s book illustrator Ricardo Cortés, and Edgar Award winner Jack Ferraiolo.
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Former HarperCollins Children’s Books and Razorbill editor Lexa Hillyer has inked a two-book deal. HarperCollins Children’s Books will publish the poet’s debut novel in 2015.
The book was described as “a lyrical, heart-wrenching novel about four girls who miraculously relive the summer they were fifteen, discovering friendships, second chances, and one devastating secret.”
Foundry Literary + Media agent Stephen Barbara negotiated the deal with Kate Jackson. Rosemary Brosnan will edit both books.
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By: Kathy Temean,
on 6/24/2013
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I was talking with Agent Stephen Barbara at Foundry Literary + Media (Agent of New York Times and international bestseller Lauren Oliver – Before I Fall, Delirium, etc.). If you attended the NJSCBWI Conference, you met both of them. Anyway, he told me about Children’s Agent and Foreign Right’s Director, Rachel Hecht, at his company who is looking to build her client list. I thought I would share her information with all of you.
As a domestic agent, Rachel is seeking children’s projects of all stripes, from picture books through to young adult fiction, as well as select fiction and non-fiction projects for adults that are wonderfully written and completely absorbing. Drawing on her experience at the forefront of children’s scouting, she loves the thrill of the hunt for new talent and enjoys working closely with authors to develop and refine their projects for submission.
“In terms of adult fiction, the strength of the voice and quality of the writing is what is most important to me. I am seeking literary as well as upmarket/commercial projects, and would love to see projects with crossover potential as well as those that blur the boundaries between genres – especially in the thriller, fantasy, and historical categories (but a polite no thank you to straight genre writing). For nonfiction, I’m interested in memoirs, pop culture, and narrative nonfiction projects with a great hook – stories that I am unable to put down about topics I had no idea I was interested in.”
Before joining Foundry in 2011, Rachel served as the children’s book scout for Mary Anne Thompson Associates, where she provided exclusive insight into the US publishing world for a diverse roster of foreign publishers. A graduate of Kenyon College with a degree in English, she began her career in New York at Condé Nast before moving into book publishing.
Rachel Hecht accepts paper and email submissions. Please send all digital queries for Rachel [email protected]. For more information on submitting your project, please see the Foundry Submissions page.
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Kathy
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A great deal of congratulations are due to Stephen Barbara and his lovely wife, the newly minted YA author Jessica Rothenberg. Well done, you crazy kids! Go off and make ye wonderful books together. You’re both the best of the best of the best.
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Stephen Barbara, literary agent with Foundry Literary + Media in New York City has agreed to join us this year at the New Jersey SCBWI Conference being held in Princeton on June 3rd to 5th. He will be conducting the Writer’s Intensive on Friday afternoon, doing half hour consultative crititques and workshops.
For those of you who have not met Stephen, he is a great agent, a wonderful person, extremely knowledgable and a mover and shaker in the children’s Industry. He’s a great addition to the conference and I know you will love him. If you were on the fence trying to decide if you should attend, this might be just the thing to push you to register.
Stephen focuses on books for young readers from picture books through young adult. He also does adult fiction and nonfiction geared to a younger demographic, and he has enjoyed some notable successes with debut authors. His clients include:
New York Times bestseller Lauren Oliver, Newbery Medal winner Laura Amy Schlitz, Edgar Award nominee Jack D. Ferraiolo, School Library Journal blogger Betsy Bird, and popular teen author Todd Strasser, among others.
A graduate of the University of Chicago (AB ’02, English), Stephen previously worked at HarperCollins and as Contracts Director of the Donald Maass Agency.
Publishers Marketplace reports 27 children’s book contracts in the last two years – that’s not counting all the film and TV deals. Many have been from debut authors and many of them have been very good deals.
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Kathy
PS: Don’t cry girls Stephen just got engaged. Congratulations Stephen!
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Debut Author of the Month:
Libby Schmais
Je suis heureux de vous informer that starting today, I'm reviving le Debut Author du mois feature on mon blog. (Those of you who contacted me for First Books: You may be hearing from in months to come.)
January's DAotM is Libby Schmais, whose YA debut is The Pillow Book of Lotus Lowenstein, released from Delacorte en Décembre. Says Kirkus: "readers of any age will savor Lotus’s panache...Chick lit par excellence." You can read a délicieuse excerpt here.
Describe your debut YA novel, The Pillow Book of Lotus Lowenstein.
The Pillow Book of Lotus Lowenstein is a diary book by a teenager living in Brooklyn who is obsessed with all things French. Lotus feels stifled by her life in Park Slope, Brooklyn and fancies herself an existentialist, although her real knowledge of that philosophy and actual French words is a little sketchy. She and her best friend Joni end up both liking the same guy, another Sartre aficionado, and things come to a head during a school trip to Montreal, challenging both her friendship and her freethinking ideas.
You’d published a couple of books for adults—what made you write for a YA audience?
I didn’t consciously set out to write a YA book. The character of Lotus appeared to me one day, and the voice was a teenage one, so I just kind of went with it. I think if I had decided to write a modern-day YA novel from the beginning, I would have been intimidated, because it was out of my comfort zone.
Why did you choose diary format? Have you kept journals at some point?
Well, Lotus is studying The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagan in school, a famous Japanese diary book so that’s part of the reason I chose the diary format. The other reason is that I’ve always wanted to write a diary book. So many of my favorite books are diary books, like I Capture the Castle,
Class of 2K8 & 2K9 at NJSCBWI
Marissa Doyle, Daphne Grab, Albert Borris (2k9 Co-Pres), Nancy Viau, Nina Nelson
Editors! Agents! And Authors, Oh My!
New Jersey has one of the largest SCBWI chapters on the East coast, and writers from Maine to Maryland sign-up early to attend the annual conference in lovely Princeton. This year top editors like Cheryl Klein, Robin Tordini, Jessica Dandino Garrison, Samantha McFerrin, Stacy Cantor, Nick Eliopulos, and came ready to dish out advice, provide critiques, and give workshops. Approachable agents were in the mix, as well, and the line-up included Dan Lazar of Writers House, Stephen Barbara of Donald Maass Literary, and Linda Pratt of the Sheldon Fogelman Agency.
Author Daphne Grab and Agent Stephen Barbara
Agent Stephen Barbara, Hallee Adleman, Daphen Grab
Nancy Viau and conference organizer Kathy Temean
As promised, today I am going to answer the questions that Sherry sent into my MySpace account. They are rather timely.
What keeps you motivated to write?
Writing keeps me healthy and sane. When I am working on a story, I channel the dark, sad, confused, angry bits of me into something constructive and healing. I always feel better after a day of writing. I also love the challenge of solving the puzzle of how to create a story.
I know writing is a long process but when i can't get the right inspiration i need to finish part of the story it stresses me out.
I totally hear you. I feel the same way sometimes. When you run out of inspiration, it's usually means you don't understand your character and the conflicts she's facing. Brainstorm ten things that could happen next that would complicate her life, and then brainstorm ten things that would make her life easier. Somewhere in there, you'll find a key to the next scene you have to write.
As an author do you think its best to plan the stories plot and whats gonna happen in the whole book ahead of time or do you think its best to just go with the flow and go wherever the story leads you?
It depends on the book and it depends on how quickly you want to finish it. With my historical novels, I have to outline carefully because the character's journey has to take place within real historical events. With my YA novels, like TWISTED and SPEAK, I am more flexible. In the early drafts, I write whatever weirdness pops in my head. In later drafts, I sort through the chaos and try to give it structure and a sense of flow. But what works for me might not work for you. Everyone has their own process, as my editor Sharyn always says.
Do you ever set goals for youself as to when you're gonna finish writing certain parts of the book?
All the time. And I never, ever reach the goal on time because I am a hopeless optimist and I always forget to schedule in sleeping at night. But I keep doing it. Goals are helpful. Making time to write every day helps even more.
And any other advise you could give me for writing a book would be very helpful please!
Turn off the television. Read every night before you go to sleep. Write for fun. Never, ever criticize yourself during a first draft. Do not pressure yourself by saying "I have to get this published by the time I am 20 (or 30, or 40, etc.) Write the story in your heart.
Great questions, Sherry. Thanks!
This came in from a 15-year-old girl in the Philippines.
... I'm a high school sophomore at an all-girls school in the Philippines.
I just wanted to say that I find Twisted and Speak really amazing books. I can't fully say how amazing they are. If it weren't for a book sale, I probably would not have heard of you, or any of your books, for that matter. I mean, I live here in the Philippines, and the bookstores here have limited copies of your books, mostly the ones for younger children. It took me a long time to find Twisted, and I still haven't seen Catalyst or your other novels. Anyway, I wanted to thank you, too, for writing the way you do. I get to empathize with the characters, even though I haven't been in any situation they're in. That's really something. I get inspired. I write too, but usually in non-fiction, and I write for our school paper. Also, I checked out your website, and saw the playlist for Twisted. It was so weird that those songs are on my iPod. I'm sorry if I was rambling, but I just had to say it. That's all.
All love for the Philippines!! ::glowing::
I also got an email from a guy, a junior, who read TWISTED. It was a very emotional note, with details about how his life paralleled Tyler Miller's. I don't feel comfortable sharing the whole thing, but there were a couple of lines that are universal:
"i picked your book up in the library yesterday and read the first couple of pages and for some reason i couldn't put it down. i consistently got yelled at today and even got a detention for reading during class. so i get home and i finally finish it and I'm just like "wow". this IS the best book i have ever read. hands down.... i just want to be myself, and be liked at the same time, but its like that's impossible. its either be myself and be hated on, or be fake and get worshiped, life sucks and its taken me this long to realize, that shit just isn't going to change, and your book made me realize this.... it feels like I'm supposed to do something epic to let everyone know that I'm done putting up with people's "fakeness". like i want to go outside and scream as loud as i can for as long as i can....
I think he's right. Our culture, especially in high school, doesn't give kids much room to express the real person they feel inside. They feel under so much pressure to conform and it's hard to understand and it damages their souls. (The next time you see an angry teenager, please remember and be kind.)
This is why we write, friends, and this is why we read. To connect with other people. To feel alive. To stumble towards the answers.
I love my job.
Rachel sounds like she has a great background. (Our son went to Kenyon–great school!)
I am working on an exciting YA novel now that is just in the final stages of proofing The Quest and just starting a new ballet series for the YA . It is just in the Work in progress stage but will be heavily researched, as is all my work. I am full member of the SCBWI . I have previously published two articles in the non-fiction adult market and at the moment working on another that has a deadline in July. I am also doing free lance writing for the PKU Community . ( PKU is a rare genetic disorder in which the body is unable to break down protein . ) If you are interested in my material please contact at :
[email protected]
Hi there, I check your blog regularly. Your story-telling style is
awesome, keep up the good work!