CLOSING TO QUERIES

I will be closed to all unsolicited queries from February 1st, 2012 and will reopen on April 1st, 2012

Anyone who has sent me queries, or requested partials/full manuscripts before February 1st will still be considered.

If I meet you at a conference and request your work, it is considered a solicited query and will definitely be considered.

I am heading to South Africa (second week of Feb.) to visit family, promote literacy, meet with local publishers, educate South African writers and to help stock a library for underprivileged mothers and children at a local shelter in Cape Town.

While I am there (5 weeks), I will continue to work with my clients, read their work and communicate with editors. This will leave little time for the query pile.

Thanks for understanding.

-L

* UPDATE: If I have requested a full or offered a revise and resubmit, please feel free to send your work to me.

COVER ALERT!

Isn't it GORGEOUS!?

Tooth and Nail by Jennifer Safrey will be available the first week of February.
We are so excited!

Gemma Fae Cross, a tough-girl amateur boxer whose fiance is running for congress, has just made a startling discovery about herself. She is half faerie - and not just any faerie, but a tooth faerie! A hybrid of fae and human, Gemma is destined to defend the Olde Way and protect the fae - who are incapable of committing violence - from threats to their peaceful and idyllic way of life, which must be maintained by distilling innocence collected from children''s baby teeth. But when a threat to the fae mission emerges, Gemma is called upon to protect her heritage, and become a legendary fae warrior... even if it means sacrificing everything she knows about being human!

Add it to your To Read pile on Goodreads and tell us what you think! --> Goodreads


What do you think of the cover?

Cant wait to hear your thoughts!

Foreign NEWS

Simplified Chinese rights to Michael Dempsey's NECROPOLIS, to Science Fiction World, by Gray Tan at The Grayhawk Agency on behalf of Sandy Lu at L. Perkins Agency. 

French rights to Bram Stoker Award winner Nancy A. Collins's RIGHT HAND MAGIC and LEFT HAND MAGIC, to J'ai Lu, in a nice deal, for publication in 2012, by Anne Lenclud at Lenclud Literary Agency and Emily Keyes at L. Perkins Agency.

FYI:  Emily Keyes is our Contracts and Foreign Rights Manager.


HAPPY NEW YEAR!

We Love Our HORROR!

From Publishers Marketplace:

NYT bestselling horror author John Skipp, ed.'s PSYCHOS: Encounters with Serial Killers and the Criminally Insane, to Dinah Dunne at Black Dog & Levanthal, in a nice deal, by the L. Perkins Agency.

Have you watched this?

Take 30 minutes and enjoy this amazing extended music video/short film by Kanye West.

NECROPOLIS By Michael Dempsey

Here is the announcement:

Michael Dempsey's NECROPOLIS, pitched as The Big Sleep meets Frankenstein meets The Curious Case of Benjamin Button meets Fringe, in which an NYPD detective was revived in a future New York City quarantined beneath a geodesic Blister and under the brutal control of a Halliburton-like company fifty years after he and his wife were killed in a bodega hold-up, courtesy of a retrovirus which jump-starts dead DNA and throws the life cycle into reverse, so reborns like him must cope with the fact that they are not only slowly youthing toward a new childhood, but have become New York's most hated minority, to Jeremy Lassen at Night Shade Books, for publication in October 2011, by Sandy Lu at L. Perkins Agency (World English). 

And now see the trailer!
 

Our HUGE news:

We sold the most amazing book to Harper Collins.

Here is the Publishers Marketplace Announcement:

Megan Frampton writing as Megan Caldwell’s VANITY FARE, a charming novel about a 40-year-old Brooklyn mother, recently divorced with a son, who starts writing copy for a bakery, discovers a knack for food-related literary puns, and becomes entangled in a love triangle, to Wendy Lee at William Morrow (HARPER COLLINS), by Louise Fury at L. Perkins Agency (World).

I loved this book so much and I am thrilled that in 12-18 months, you guys will be able to read this too!

If you want to know more about the author, you can...

• Follow her on twitter @meganf
• Visit her personal blog --> www.meganframpton.com
• Visit her other blog --> www.riskyregencies.blogspot.com
• Spy on her at work   Visit this romance review site--> www.heroesandheartbreakers.com

Megan is an author to watch. I was a fan, long before I was her agent!

-L

OCT/NOV 2011 RELEASES by L. Perkins Agency Clients

1. DEMONS: Anthology by John Skipp (Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers)

Includes Stories by Neil Gamon, Clive Barker, Joe Hill and more....

2. MIND OVER MONSTERS by Jennifer Harlow (Midnight Ink)
Visit the authors website here: http://blog.jenniferharlowbooks.com/

3. FOREST OF SHADOWS by Hunter Shea (Samhain Publishing)
Visit the authors blog here: http://huntershea.com/

 
4. THE HUNGER GAMES COMPANION By Lois Gresh (St. Martin's)
Visit the authors blog here: http://loisgresh.blogspot.com/

5. NECROPOLIS By Michael Dempsey ( Night Shade Books)
Visit the authors GORGEOUS website at http://www.necropolisthenovel.com/

***AND COMING THIS DECEMBER .. LOOK OUT FOR the 2nd book in the Gologotham Series:
LEFT HAND MAGIC by Nancy Collins (Penguin / ROC)
                             

Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

This is one speech I can watch again and again!
Have you seen it?

I Am Currently Reading...

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. ---> LINK 

This book is AMAZING and I am only 4 chapters in!

Find out more about the author HERE
This is a description taken from the authors website:

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells—taken without her knowledge in 1951—became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, in vitro fertilization, and more. Henrietta’s cells have been bought and sold by the billions, yet she remains virtually unknown, and her family can’t afford health insurance.