Agency News
The Ghost Bride is a Fall 2013 Discover Great New Writers selection
Posted by: Jenny on 2013-05-16
Congratulations to TBA client Yangsze Choo, whose first novel, THE GHOST BRIDE, has just been chosen by Barnes and Noble as a Fall 2013 Discover Great New Writers selection!
MOMS WHO DRINK AND SWEAR has been featured in the Daily Mail, UK!
Posted by: on 2013-05-15
Check out TBA client, Nicole Knepper in the the UK's Daily Mail.
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Deal News
Posted by: Jenny on 2013-05-09
NYT bestselling author Lori Wilde has just signed a new deal with Avon and her longtime editor Lucia Macro. The deal was for six books and for a high six figure advance.
TBA Agents Molly Ker Hawn and Gemma Cooper Interviewed in Words and Pictures, the magazine of SCBWI British Isles
Posted by: on 2013-05-08
Check out what advice Molly and Gemma have to give about the submission process.
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Lynsay Sands makes the Der Spiegel bestseller list in Germany
Posted by: on 2013-04-26
Congratulations to Lynsay whose novellas THE GIFT and VAMPIRE VALENTINE just hit #21 on Germany's Der Spiegel bestseller list.
Gwendolyn Zepeda has been nominated for an International Latino Book Award
Posted by: Victoria on 2013-04-26
Congratulations to TBA author Gwen whose novel, BETTER WITH YOU HERE has been nominated for Best Popular Fiction. The winners will be announced on May 30th, so stay tuned.
See a full list of the nominee's here.
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Lori Roy's UNTIL SHE COMES HOME receives a starred Booklist review!
Posted by: Victoria on 2013-04-16
"Roy makes every detail count as she builds her characters and gently but inexorably leads them to reexamine their own lives."
Find the full review in Booklist's May 1st issue.
Seressia Glass interviewed in USA Today
Posted by: Jenny on 2013-04-12
Seressia Glass was interviewed in USA Today about her upcoming release, SEDUCING THE JACKAL.
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Gwendolyn Zepeda appointed Houston's first Poet Laureate
Posted by: Jenny on 2013-04-11
Congratulations to TBA client Gwendolyn Zepeda who has been appointed Houston's first poet laureate.
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P.L. Gaus's THE NAMES OF OUR TEARS earns a Kirkus star!
Posted by: Victoria on 2013-04-09
Here's what the Kirkus Review had to say:
"Once again, Gaus probes the tension between the self-reliance of the Amish world and the urgencies of the English world with depth and sensitivity."
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Bestselling e-books of 2012
Posted by: Jenny on 2013-04-04
Bent Agency clients Lori Wilde and Lynsay Sands made Publishers Weekly's list of bestselling e-books for 2012.
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Lynsay Sands IMMORTAL EVER AFTER is a New York Times bestseller
Posted by: Jenny on 2013-03-31
Lynsay Sands' new novel, Immortal Ever After, hits #2 on the New York Times bestseller list and #8 on the USA Today bestseller list, for her highest placement ever.
Cross Creek Options Bent Road by Lori Roy
Posted by: Jenny on 2012-11-29
Cross Creek Pictures has optioned feature film rights to Lori Roy's novel "Bent Road" and tapped Mark Mallouk to adapt, with Benderspink producing.
Cross Creek, which emerged two years ago as a significant player when it backed "Black Swan," has partnered with Exclusive Media on Ron Howard's racing drama "Rush," "The Ides of March," "The Woman in Black" and the upcoming "A Walk Among the Tombstones." It's also developing "The Creed of Violence."
UTA reps both Roy and Mallouk. It repped the book rights on behalf of the Bent Agency.
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Deal News
Posted by: Jenny on 2012-10-31
Publishers Weekly, October 29th, 2012. Executive editor at Harlequin HQN, Tara Parsons, took world rights (excluding Japan), for high six figures, to a new trilogy by Julia London. Agent Jenny Bent, at the Bent Agency, represented the bestselling historical romance author, whose series include the Secrets of Hadley Green. The new series, the publisher said, will feature a Sense and Sensibility theme, and senior editor Ann Leslie Tuttle will be editing the titles. The first book is scheduled for spring 2014.
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