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Deal News: Taylor Jenkins Reid’s FOREVER, INTERRUPTED

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TaylorJenkinsReidNorwegian rights have been sold for Taylor Jenkins Reid’s debut FOREVER, INTERRUPTED (Atria/Simon & Schuster) to Cappelen Damm in Norway. Rights already sold: World English, Dutch, Italian, Portugese and German.

FOREVER, INTERRUPTED is coming out in July 2013.

Find Taylor on Twitter and on her Website.

“Taylor Jenkins Reid has written a poignant and heartfelt exploration of love and commitment in the absence of shared time that asks, what does it take to be the love of someone’s life?” (Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus New York Times bestselling authors)

“Sweet, heartfelt, and surprising, Forever Interrupted is a story about a young woman struggling to find her way after losing her husband. These characters made me laugh as well as cry, and I ended up falling in love with them, too.” (Sarah Pekkanen author of The Best of Us)

Elsie and Ben are average twenty-somethings, but this is not your average love story. It begins bright and promising: the newlywed couple is head over heels in love, having eloped six months after they met. But it all shatters in an instant; Ben out riding his bike, is hit by a truck—and dies on impact. Continue reading →

Cover Reveal! Stats Canada: Satire on a National Scale

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ImageCanada’s newest online sensation is bringing the country together one stat at a time. The growth of the @stats_canada Twitter feed, launched in July 2012, has been explosive, averaging a thousand new followers each day. The statistics are hilariously untrue, but Canadians everywhere recognize themselves in the “statire.”

Like the Twitter phenomenon, Stats Canada: Satire on a National Scale (Penguin, Fall 2013) parodies everything about Canada. History and culture, language, sports and entertainment, politics, weather—nothing is sacred:

  • 35% of advice given in any Home Hardware store does not come from an actual employee
  • Two-thirds of Canadians are unable to read one side of their cereal box
  • 70% of Canadians believe Gordon Lightfoot is a yoga position
  • In Canada, 1% of the population controls 99% of the maple syrup Continue reading →

Cover Reveal! ELLA AND THE BALLOONS IN THE SKY

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ELLA AND THE BALLOONS IN THE SKY is available for pre-order! Here’s its gorgeous cover.

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“They’d just taken them somewhere she hadn’t yet been, to magical places she hadn’t yet seen.”

Ella comes down one morning to feed her pets and finds that they have disappeared. She discovers them floating away on balloons, high in the sky. Try as she might, she can’t get them to come back. But although they are out of reach, Ella soon learns they are not truly gone as long as they remain in her heart and her memories. Written in gentle rhyming verse with light-hearted illustrations, Ella and the Balloons in the Sky is a story that tackles the tough subject of love and loss in a new way–with whimsy, magic, and lightness.

The picture book ELLA AND THE BALLOONS IN THE SKY comes out Fall 2013 with Tundra Books/Random House.

FOREVER, INTERRUPTED is available for pre-order!

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Taylor Jenkins Reid Forever Interrupted CoverFOREVER, INTERRUPTED by Taylor Jenkins Reid is available for pre-order!

Read the book that everyone is talking about:

“Taylor Jenkins Reid has written a poignant and heartfelt exploration of love and commitment in the absence of shared time that asks, what does it take to be the love of someone’s life?” Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus New York Times bestselling authors

“Sweet, heartfelt, and surprising, Forever Interrupted is a story about a young woman struggling to find her way after losing her husband. These characters made me laugh as well as cry, and I ended up falling in love with them, too.” Sarah Pekkanen author of The Best of Us

“This beautifully rendered story explores the brilliance and rarity of finding true love, and how to find our way back through the painful aftermath of losing it. These characters will leap right off the page and into your heart.” Amy Hatvany author of Heart Like Mine

FOREVER, INTERRUPTED by Taylor Jenkins Reid

This heartrending debut novel weaves a beautiful love story with an homage to the redemptive power of female friendship.

Elsie and Ben are average twenty-somethings, but this is not your average love story. It begins bright and promising: the newlywed couple is head over heels in love, having eloped six months after they met. But it all shatters in an instant; Ben out riding his bike, is hit by a truck—and dies on impact.

Elsie hears the sirens outside her apartment, but by the time she gets downstairs, his body has already been taken to the hospital. When she arrives, Elsie is greeted by an unexpected visitor—her mother-in-law, Susan, whom she has never met and who doesn’t even know she exists. Continue reading →

Happy Book Birthday to Julianna Scott and THE HOLDERS

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the holdersTHE HOLDERS by Julianna Scott (Angry Robot/Strange Chemistry) is out today!

17-year-old Becca has spent her whole life protecting her brother – from their father leaving and from the people who say the voices in his head are unnatural. When two strangers appear with apparent answers to Ryland’s “problem” and details about a school in Ireland where Ryland will not only fit in, but prosper, Becca is up in arms.

She reluctantly agrees to join Ryland on his journey and what they find at St. Brigid’s is a world beyond their imagination. Little by little they piece together information about their family’s heritage and the legend of the Holder race that decrees Ryland is the one they’ve been waiting for—but, they are all, especially Becca, in for a surprise that will change what they thought they knew about themselves and their kind.

Book One in THE HOLDERS series is out! Buy it from Amazon, Barnes & Noble or your local independent today!

Advance Praise:

“(The Holders is) An engaging, well-paced story. Julianna Scott is a fresh new voice in the paranormal romance genre.”
- Juliet Marillier, author of the Sevenwaters fantasy series Continue reading →

Deal News: Stats Canada: Satire on a National Scale

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Penguin Canada editorial coordinator Justin Stoller has acquired rights to Stats Canada: Satire on a National Scale, a book of essays, graphs, timelines, maps, and photo illustrations from the anonymous creators of the Twitter parody account @Stats_Canada. Publication is scheduled for fall 2013.

Follow @Stats_Canada on Twitter.

Deal News: Taylor Jenkins Reid’s FOREVER, INTERRUPTED

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TaylorJenkinsReidPortuguese rights have been sold for Taylor Jenkins Reid’s debut FOREVER, INTERRUPTED (Atria/Simon & Schuster) to Record in Brazil. Rights already sold: World English, Dutch, Italian, and German.

FOREVER, INTERRUPTED is coming out in July 2013.

Find Taylor on Twitter and on her Website.

“Taylor Jenkins Reid has written a poignant and heartfelt exploration of love and commitment in the absence of shared time that asks, what does it take to be the love of someone’s life?” (Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus New York Times bestselling authors)

“Sweet, heartfelt, and surprising, Forever Interrupted is a story about a young woman struggling to find her way after losing her husband. These characters made me laugh as well as cry, and I ended up falling in love with them, too.” (Sarah Pekkanen author of The Best of Us)

Elsie and Ben are average twenty-somethings, but this is not your average love story. It begins bright and promising: the newlywed couple is head over heels in love, having eloped six months after they met. But it all shatters in an instant; Ben out riding his bike, is hit by a truck—and dies on impact.

Elsie hears the sirens outside her apartment, but by the time she gets downstairs, his body has already been taken to the hospital. When she arrives, Elsie is greeted by an unexpected visitor—her mother-in-law, Susan, whom she has never met and who doesn’t even know she exists.

Both are seared with grief; Susan is still mourning the death of her own husband several years earlier, and the loss of her only son is almost too much to bear. The two women immediately sour on one another, fighting over what to do with Ben’s belongings and how to fulfill his wishes. But as time goes by, Susan and Elsie both realize that despite the terrible accident that brought them together, they are now the only family they have left.

Interweaving Elsie and Ben’s charmed romance with Elsie and Susan’s healing process, Forever, Interrupted will make you laugh, make you cry, and remind you that there’s more than one way to live happily ever after.

Pre-order on Amazon now!