Will Kostakis’ YA novel The Sidekicks (Penguin Australia) has won the 2018 Ena Noël Award! Read the full article here.
Category: YA fiction
Still a Bestseller!
THE HAZEL WOOD is now at number four as it goes into its ninth week on the New York Times Bestsellers list!
THE HAZEL WOOD Still a Best Seller!
THE HAZEL WOOD is on the New York Times YA Bestsellers list for the 7th week in a row! At Number 5 for the week of 1 April!
JANE, UNLIMITED On a Best Fiction List!
Congratulations to Kristin Cashore, whose JANE, UNLIMITED has been selected for YALSA’s 2018 Best Fiction for Young Adults list!
Recent Arrivals
Just received from Spain, the UK, and France! THE HAZEL WOOD Spanish and English (UK) editions, and French editions of THE DAM KEEPER (volume 1) and CITY OF SAINTS AND THIEVES. Watch for more editions of all these fabulous books coming soon!
HAZEL WOOD in NY Times Top 10 List for Third Week!
The US edition of THE HAZEL WOOD is in the top 10 of the NY Times’ hardback bestsellers list for the third week in a row! And here are two of the special editions of the UK edition: the Fairy Loot February box hardback (with a bookplate signed by Melissa Albert) and the Waterstones special edition…
THE HAZEL WOOD Goes to Rizzoli
Italian rights to Melissa Albert’s THE HAZEL WOOD have been pre-empted by Rizzoli Libri, making this the 16th foreign sale for this fantastic book! (Film rights have already been sold to Sony Pictures, with Red Wagon producing.) THE HAZEL WOOD was only published at the end of January in the US, but it’s already number 3…
DON’T ASK ME WHERE I’M FROM Sells in Italy!
It’s a brilliant book! Recipient of a Walter Dean Meyers We Need Diverse Books grant, Jennifer De Leon’s DON’T ASK ME WHERE I’M FROM, in which a girl whose father has been deported back to Guatemala is bussed from her inner city high school to a high achieving suburban one, where fitting into different worlds…
THE HAZEL WOOD Is Finally Here!
THE HAZEL WOOD is coming out in the US tomorrow from Flatiron books! Publishers Weekly gave it a starred review: THE HAZEL WOOD by Melissa Albert (Flatiron). “Alice Proserpine has grown up on the run, haunted by a book her mother, Ella, has forbidden her from reading: Tales from the Hinterland. It’s a collection of unsettling…
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…
Lora Fountain Literary Agency 