Gene Luen Yang’s Boxers & Saints has been named a finalist for the National Book Award for Young Peoples’ Literature after being named to the long-list a month ago. The winners will be announced on November 20th. Other finalists include Kathi Appelt’s The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp, Cynthia Kadohata’s The Thing About…
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OREGON HILL wins the 2013 Hammett Prize!
Less than two weeks after Permanent Press title DEAD ANYWAY won the 2013 Nero Award, another of their books, OREGON HILL by Howard Owen, has won the prestigious Hammett Prize for 2013. As Kirkus Reviews said of OREGON HILL: This is Southern literature as expected, with a touch of noir, and with a touch of Dennis Lehane’s Mystic…
Chris Knopf’s DEAD ANYWAY wins the 2013 Nero Award!
DEAD ANYWAY by Chris Knopf (Permanent Press) has just been announced as the winner of the 2013 Nero Award, which will be presented in New York on 7 December. Congratulations to Chris and to his publishers Martin and Judy Shepard of Permanent Press!
Our clients are on the ALA Best Graphic Novels of the year list!
Annie Sullivan and the Trials of Helen Keller by Joseph Lambert (Center for Cartoon Studies), Faith Erin Hicks’ Friends with Boys (First Second) and The Silence of Our Friends by Mark Long, Jim Demonakos and Nate Powell (First Second) are all on the American Library Association’s YALSA top ten graphic novels list: http://www.ala.org/yalsa/booklists/ggnt/2013/topten.
Yang’s BOXERS & SAINTS a National Book Award Finalist
Gene Luen Yang’s BOXERS & SAINTS went on sale last Friday and has already made the long list for this year’s National Book Awards for Young Peoples’ Literature. This is the second National Book Awards nomination for Gene Luen Yang, whose AMERICAN BORN CHINESE was a finalist.
ANOMALY film rights go to Relativity
Relativity has closed a deal to finance, produce and distribute Anomaly, a live-action feature based on the interactive comic book created and written by top showbiz lawyer Skip Brittenham and artist-writer Brian Haberlin, co-creator of the Witchblade franchise. Anomaly was their first creation. Their next graphic novel, Shifter, will be published in November. For more…
BATTLING BOY by Paul Pope gets a starred review from Publishers Weekly !
BATTLING BOY Paul Pope. First Second The future of Arcopolis, a city under siege by daily monster attacks, is in jeopardy after its champion, Haggard West, falls in battle. Hope arrives in the form of Battling Boy, a pampered 13-year-old warrior god whose initiation into adulthood is to become Arcopolis’s new protector. Even with magical…
The New York Times loves RUFUS GOES TO SCHOOL, and so do we!
The New York Times has given a glowing review to Sterling’s new book, RUFUS GOES TO SCHOOL. All Rufus Leroy Williams III wants is to go to school so he can learn to read his favorite book. But there’s one problem: he’s a pig and Principal Lipid says: “No pigs in school!” What can Rufus do to change…
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