Özge Samanci’s graphic novel about growing up in Turkey, DARE TO DISAPPOINT, is now out in Dutch from Soulfood Comics! Growing up on the Aegean Coast, Özge loved the sea and imagined a life of adventure while her parents and society demanded predictability. Her dad expected Özge, like her sister, to become an engineer….
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Season’s Greetings
Here’s to many more wonderful books in 2016!
DARE TO DISAPPOINT sells in Holland
Dutch rights to DARE TO DISAPPOINT: Growing Up in Turkey by Özge Samanci (Farar, Straus, & Giroux) have sold to Soul Food Comics. Growing up on the Aegean Coast, Özge loved the sea and imagined a life of adventure while her parents and society demanded predictability. Her dad expected her, like her sister, to…
RIP Fatema Mernissi
It is with great sadness that we have learned of the passing of the Moroccan sociologist and feminist, Fatema Mernissi, on the 30th of November. In addition to her rôle as professor of sociology at the University of Rabat, Fatema Mernissi was also a militant defender of human rights and democracy who affected whole generation of Moroccan intellectuals. In…
DEAD MAN’S SWITCH wins the 2015 Arthur Ellis Award!
Congratulations to Sigmund Brouwer, winner of the 2015 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Juvenile/YA Crime Book for DEAD MAN’S SWITCH. Sigmund is represented by Transatlantic Literary Agency.
MR. NATURAL is now in Spanish
“How to win friends and influence people. Discover Your Erroneous Zones. Travel optimism. The art of not embittering life. Reinvent and undertake. The Power of Now … Ditch all those self-help books! “Here comes Mr. Natural, our personal favorite guru, the one Mystic able to meditate deeply about the human condition while taking a nap.”…
THIS IS DEFINITELY A BOOK
The European Court of Justice has just ruled that France and Luxembourg cannot apply the same value-added tax rate to e-books as is used for printed books. Which means that in France the VAT on e-books will now go up to 20% from 5.5%. And it’s the authors who will suffer in the long run. This is a book (VAT…
Is Robotic Journalism Going to Give Us the News Now?
Anyone else feel uncomfortable about this trend? http://publishingperspectives.com/2015/02/advent-robojournalism-robowriting/
Another Starred Review for the Latest in THE OLYMPIANS Series!
ARES: BRINGER OF WAR by George O’Connor (First Second) “In the latest of his inimitable Olympians series, O’Connor comes around to Ares and the Trojan War…What family doesn’t have its little disagreements? Thank goodness the Olympians have many.” Kirkus (STARRED REVIEW) The other titles in the Olympians series are:
Lora Fountain Literary Agency 