Congratulations to J.R. Helton, whose Bad Jobs and Poor Decisions is on The National Book Review‘s list of “Five Hot Books”! 5. Bad Jobs and Poor Decisions: Dispatches from the Working Class by J. R. Helton (Liveright) “Helton spent the Reagan years in Texas, stuck in an endless loop of menial, dead-end jobs, a shaky marriage, and…
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MORE CALORIES FOR THE HOLIDAYS!
Thank you, Norma! We will have to go on a diet in January! (This is the second box of chocolates we have received today.)
Film option for THE SHARK CALLER!
Film rights to Dianne Wolfer’s THE SHARK CALLER (Penguin New Zealand) have been optioned by Kerry Warkia & Kiel McNaughton of Brown Sugar Apple Grunt Productions Ltd. THE SHARK CALLER is a gripping adventure story for middle grade readers, exploring what it is like to be caught between worlds – between urban life and an isolated tropical island; between modernity and…
Sometimes authors visit us!
On Monday Canadian author, Vicki Grant, dropped by the office to meet her French publishers. First, she met the editors from Milan, who will publish SHORT FOR CHAMELEON. Then the editors from Michel Lafon Publishing dropped by. They will be publishing Vicki’s latest book, 36 QUESTIONS THAT CHANGED MY MIND ABOUT YOU. And here’s Lora with…
THE HUNTING ACCIDENT
Another First Second title has made Publishers Weekly’s list of best adult graphic novels for 2017! THE HUNTING ACCIDENT is a story of crime, family secrets, and emotions.
THE MARROW THIEVES Wins Big!
Indigenous writer Cherie Dimaline’s timely and chilling speculative YA novel, THE MARROW THIEVES, has just won a 2017 Governor General’s Award, Canada’s most prestigious literary award! And today, the book won the Kirkus Prize for Young Readers’ Literature! Read the Publishing Perspectives interview with the author here.
Two from First Second Are PW Best Books of 2017!
Publishers Weekly just published their Best Books of the Year lists, and First Second has not one, but two books on the lists! (And they are the only graphic novels on the children’s lists, by the way.) On the Middle Grade list is REAL FRIENDS by Shannon Hale and illustrated by LeUyen Pham. Italian rights…
CITY OF SAINTS AND THIEVES Film News
French rightsFilm rights to Natalie C. Anderson’s thriller, CITY OF SAINTS AND THIEVES, have gone to Universal Pictures. Read all about it here. Variously billed as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo meets Gone Girl or The Hunger Games meets The Thief Lord, this enthralling murder mystery sdet in Kenya will keep you on the edge of your seat…
THE HUNTING ACCIDENT: Already Getting Great Reviews!
It was just published by First Second, and already THE HUNTING ACCIDENT is garnering excellent reviews/ The Hunting Accident: A True Story of Crime and Poetry by David L. Carlson and Landis Blair was featured in GQ Magazine online: “One of the Best True Crime Stories of 2017 Isn’t on TV (Yet)” https://www.gq.com/story/leopold-loeb-hunting-accident-true-crime The Hunting Accident was also…
ONE WOULD THINK THE DEEP Is a CBCA Book of the Year!
The beautiful YA novel ONE WOULD THINK THE DEEP by Claire Zorn (UQP) has won the 2017 Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Award in the Older Readers category. Sam has always had things going on in his head that no one else understands, even his mum. And now she’s dead, it’s worse…
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