Confession: I’m not much of a mystery reader. I never even liked Nancy Drew. I read only one Encyclopedia Brown, I never watched Murder She Wrote, and I’d probably lose the Trivial Pursuit point if you asked me the name of Agatha Christie’s sleuth (it’s something French, right? Poirot? Something like that?). I don’t know [...]
June 23, 2006
An example of why timing is so crucial
From Publisher’s Marketplace, June 22:
Children’s/Young Adult:
Jamie Michaels’s KISS MY BOOK, story of a teen writing sensation who gets caught plagiarizing her debut novel, but finds redemption and romance when she escapes to a small town, to Krista Marino at Delacorte, by Michael Bourret at Dystel & Goderich Literary Management (World).
I guess the big question [...]
