Author: lfagency

The ALA’s List of Thirty Top Titles of 2013 Counts Four from Our Clients!

“Book Links magazine announces the annual annotated Lasting Connections list, considered an essential resource for children’s librarians, school library media specialists and K–8 educators. The list spotlights the editors’ selections of the 30 best 2013 picture books, novels and informational titles for the K-8 classroom, all selected for their natural connections across the curriculum and…

Read More

Another great year for the Hansen Agency!

Behind Gene Luen Yang of BOXERS & SAINTS and a lot of other great graphic novelists, there’s a great agent, Judy Hansen of the Hansen Agency. Among Judy’s other clients are Ben Hatke (the ZITA THE SPACE GIRL series, published by First Second), Scott McCloud (whose eagerly-awaited next book will be coming from First Second in 2015)…

Read More

BOXERS & SAINTS tops PW Comics World 2013 List!

“Adding yet another honor to its already crowded awards cabinet, Gene Luen Yang’s Boxers and Saints topped the eighth annual PW Comics World Critics poll with five votes. The two-volume graphic novel was nominated for this year’s National Book Award for Young People’s Literature (Yang’s second NBA nomination), garnering acclaim from every corner, so topping…

Read More

AND FOR A LITTLE LIGHT READING…

  Sir Roger Penrose’s CYCLES OF TIME, AN EXTRAORDINARY NEW VISION OF THE UNIVERSE,     is now out in French at éditions Odile Jacob.

Coming in January 2014

For fans of gritty thrillers, the mass-market paperback edition of Rouge est le sang  (REDEMPTION FACTORY) by Irish writer Sam Millar will be published in French on 2 January by éditions Points.

More Kudos for Our Authors!

BINNY FOR SHORT by Hilary McKay is on the Carnegie Medal for Literature longlist for 2014. In 2002 SAFFY’S ANGEL  won the Whitbread Children’s Book of the Year Award and was a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book, ALA Notable Book and a School Library Journal Best Book of 2002. Some quotes about Hilary McKay’s writing: “Entrancing”  The…

Read More

Angoulême Comics Festival Selects Four of Our Authors!

Just back from the press conference for the Angoulême Festival de la Bande Dessinée 2014, France’s most prestigious comics festival. The four books by our authors to be featured at the festival (from 30 January to 2 February 2014) are: In the Sélection Officielle:  ANNIE SULLIVAN & HELEN KELLER by Joseph Lambert (Ça et là / Cambourakis)….

Read More

Our Clients Are Classy Dressers!

First Second’s Editorial Director, Mark Siegel, with Gene Luen Yang, author of NBA Young People’s Literature finalist titles BOXERS & SAINTS, at the 2013 National Book Awards ceremony in New York last night. (Photo credit: Nancy Crampton for Publishers Weekly, 22/11/2013)

Mike Nicol in Paris

South African thriller writer Mike Nicol (LA DETTE published by Ombres Noires) is in Paris from 19 to 21 November 2013 for events on Tuesday the 19th and Thursday the 21st as part of the ongoing cultural exchange between France and South Africa.