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Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Literary Agent Jaida Temperly
Prior to joining New Leaf Literary, Jaida grew up on a Wisconsin dairy farm, studied classical ballet, and briefly attended medical school. She loves art history, traveling, logic puzzles, horticulture, and numerous other topics that come in handy for Trivia Night and crossword puzzles. For all fiction (both Adult and Children’s) she has an affinity […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Literary Agent Julie Just
Julie Just spent sixteen years at The New York Times, most of them at the Times Book Review as Deputy Editor and then Editor of Children’s and Young Adult coverage. She is building a list that ranges from narrative nonfiction to young adult and middle-grade fiction, with a particular interest in voice and humor, adventure, mystery, fantasy, history […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Literary Agent Lucienne Diver
Lucienne Diver joined The Knight Agency in 2008, after spending fifteen years at New York City’s prestigious Spectrum Literary Agency. With her sharp eye and gift for spotting original new voices, Lucienne is one of the most well-respected agents in the industry. A lifelong book addict, she graduated summa cum laude from the State University […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Literary Agent Quressa Robinson
Quressa Robinson joined the Nelson Literary Agency in 2017 after working at a previous agency and as an editor for five years. She is originally from San Francisco, but has been living in New York City for over a decade. As a New York based agent, she is eager to build her MG, YA, and […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Literary Agent Tina Wexler
We’ve had a wonderful week of celebrating Kurtis Scaletta and his new book Mamba Point. Today, we have the extreme good fortune to be joined by his agent, Mrs. Tina Wexler of International Creative Management. Thanks so much to Mrs. Wexler for taking time out of her busy schedual. Tina Wexler is an agent at […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Author Mike Mullin
Mike Mullin’s first job was scraping the gum off the undersides of desks at his high school. From there, things went steadily downhill. He almost got fired by the owner of a bookstore due to his poor taste in earrings. He worked at a place that showed slides of poopy diapers during lunch (it did […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Author Tommy Greenwald
Tommy Greenwald is the author of Charlie Joe Jackson’s Guide to Not Reading. Click here to read my review. Here is Tom Greenwald in his own words: Who would like to read about the details of my childhood and how I always wanted to be a writer and how after all these years it’s so […]
Middle Grade Ninja: An Afterword for BANNEKER BONES AND THE ALLIGATOR PEOPLE
I love all my published works, Esteemed Reader (you never get to read the ones I don’t love), but Banneker Bones and the Giant Robot Bees is my favorite. I’ve never made a secret of that. It was a love story I wrote for my wife when we were younger and I’ve got a lot […]
Middle Grade Ninja: Book Review: THE ADVENTURES OF TOMATO AND PEA by Erik Weibel
First Paragraph(s): The rookie was preparing to sneak out of his room, even though he knew it was against regulations. He had overheard the plans for the mission. Plans that he knew wouldn’t work, but no one would listen to a mere rookie. The aliens invading his home planet of Oarg must be stopped. Three […]
Middle Grade Ninja: Book of the Week: CHARLIE JOE JACKSON’S GUIDE TO NOT READING by Tommy Greenwald
Esteemed Reader? Is it really you? We’ve been apart for far too long. Dry those eyes, Esteemed Reader, we are united once again! I’m so happy to see you I think I’ll give you a book. Why not this week’s book? Would you like that? You would! Very well. All you need to do is comment on […]