Archive for February, 2010
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Oh, to Dream
As some of you know, I came to agenting through a bit of a side-hatch. I’m not a former editor. I didn’t complete UC Santa Barbara’s nine week literary agent training program. I wrote and tried to place my own material before moving to NYC to find a job in publishing. Once here, I applied [...]
22 Comments » - Posted in The Industry by Chris
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Nudging the Muse
Writers generally hate being asked where they get their ideas. Neil Gaiman tackled the issue on his website (my favorite reply he used to give to the question is “From a little ideas shop in Bognor Regis”). In On Writing Stephen King quipped that he got his ideas from “a small, bloodthirsty elf who lives [...]
39 Comments » - Posted in Inspiration, On Writing by Chris
Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Hotly Anticipated Books
Today Scholastic released the title and cover for Mockingjay, the final installment in Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games trilogy. If you’re a fan of the series, you know why this title works. If you’re not, why are you reading this blog post and not the first two books? What’s wrong with you?
To help build anticipation, Scholastic [...]
15 Comments » - Posted in Books We Love, The Industry by Chris
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
Hungry for Hamburger
Congrats to Josh Berk on his…
Unless you’re stuck under three tons of elephant, you should be on your way to the store to pick up your own copy of THE DARK DAYS OF HAMBURGER HALPIN.
From JoshBerkBooks.com:
THE DARK DAYS OF HAMBURGER HALPIN tells the hilarious story of Will Halpin, an overweight deaf teen [...]
7 Comments » - Posted in Announcements/Agency Biz, Books We Love by Chris
Thursday, February 4th, 2010
Guilty Pleasures
Last night I had the place to myself and fired up the first two episodes in the latest season of Fox’s long-running, melodramatic, completely unrealistic counter-terrorism show 24. And I loved it.
I resisted the adventures of Jack Bauer for a while, despite the claims of friends and family that I’d eventually come to not only [...]
26 Comments » - Posted in Sweet Nonsense by Chris
Monday, February 1st, 2010
Sports Books
I’m an avid sports fan. How avid? Well, I used to contribute content for a fantasy football website. I shared partial season tickets for the Philadelphia Phillies before moving to NYC. I subscribe to ESPN the Magazine. I was even once a mediocre athlete, earning seven varsity letters during my high school career. There’s more, [...]
