MGR PRESENTS: ASK AN AGENT ~ Sheree Bykofsky LITERARY AGENT #GIVEAWAY #AuthorsRT #WritersRT #ASMSG

Modern Good Reads Presents:

ASK AN AGENT ~ Sheree Bykofsky

SHEREE BYKOFSKY ASSOCIATES, INC.

July 17th-19th

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Sheree Bykofsky Associates, Inc., AAR, represents hundreds of authors in all areas of adult non-fiction as well as literary and commercial fiction. Her non-fiction specialties include popular reference, business, health, psychology, poker, spirituality, self-help, humor, cookbooks, pop culture, biography, women’s issues, decorating & crafts, music, and much more.

*Full list of Authors/Books Represented Here ═►http://shereebee.com/books-represented-by-sheree-bykofsky-associates-inc/

Sheree is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Publishing at New York University and an Adjunct Professor at Rosemont College. She teaches and lectures at a variety of conferences and symposiums around the country, including the upcoming interactive workshop, SPEND A DAY WITH A LITERARY AGENT, held at the Ocean City Public Library, Ocean City, NJ, Saturday, July 13, 2013, from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. For more information about SPEND A DAY WITH A LITERARY AGENT, please contact Karen Mahar at: Karen@oceancitylibrary.org

Author and Speaker:

Sheree Bykofsky is the author, co-author and editor of more than twenty books, including the best-selling The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Getting Published (Pearson), now in its fifth edition.

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LAUNCH/GIVEAWAY ~ THE ATHERFAE Weald Fae Journals #YoungAdult #Fantasy by Christopher Shields @WealdFaeJournal

"The Weald is No More!"

Much has changed for Maggie O’Shea in the past eight months. The Weald is abandoned—its last Steward dead and the Seelie Clan in tatters. Maggie, her family, and her friends are on the run, frantically traversing the globe as they are hunted by Ozara’s Alliance, Rogue Fae, and a ruthless vampire tracker named Mara, who is capable of seeing through all of Maggie’s cleverest tricks and disguises.

As Maggie travels deeper and deeper into Europe’s most ancient Fae territories, danger and destruction follow her at every turn. The only things that can save her? Discovering the identity of the Second Aetherfae—her most dangerous adversary—and learning the secret to creating Aether, the only weapon strong enough to destroy her enemy. And the clock is ticking.

THE AETHERFAE is the third book in the four part epic fantasy saga, Weald Fae Journals by Christopher Shields. Look for the first and second books, THE STEWARD (Weald Fae Journals, Book 1), and THE CHANGELING (Weald Fae Journals, Book 2), also available on Amazon. For more information about the Weald Fae Journals, including exclusive story and character content, please visit: www.wealdfaejournals.com

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: CHRISTOPHER SHIELDS

Christopher Shields lives in Northwest Arkansas with his family and three dogs. Following what he considers to be his calling, he is a professor of criminal justice at the University of Arkansas, in Fayetteville. He loves working with students during the day, and writing at night. Christopher also enjoys spending time with his circle of close friends, playing his sax, and indulging his life-long passion for the Arkansas Razorbacks.
 

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Ask A Publisher ~ LISA RUTHERFORD, CEO of COLILOQUY #Publishing #AuthorsRT #ASMSG

Ask A Publisher ~ LISA RUTHERFORD, CEO of digital publisher COLILOQUY, July 11th-12th 

 

Modern Good Reads Presents:

 
Ask A Publisher ~ LISA RUTHERFORD, CEO of digital publisher COLILOQUY

July 11th-12th

Discussion here═► Ask A Publisher ~ LISA RUTHERFORD, CEO of digital publisher COLOQUIY, July 11th-12th

BIO:

LISA RUTHERFORD is the co-founder and CEO of digital publisher Coliloquy. She has been e-reading since 2006 and is deeply passionate about using technology to create new types of books and tell stories in ways that weren’t possible on the printed page.

Lisa started off as an undergraduate English major from Pennsylvania, before making her way west to California. Most recently an entrepreneur and venture capitalist, Lisa was named an AlwaysON Top 25 Women to Watch in Tech and has an MBA from Stanford and an MA from the University of Chicago.

ABOUT COLILOQUY:

Coliloquy is a digital publisher focused on active and interactive storytelling. We leverage advances in technology to create groundbreaking new forms of digital content and innovative business models. Originally developed as part of the Kindle Developer Program, we launched in early 2012. Eighteen months later, we have over 30 authors under contract, and our books and apps are available across all tablet, phone, and e-reading platforms, including iOS, Android, Kindle, NOOK, and Kobo.

Coliloquy publishes a wide range of interactive series and standalone novels – from YA to adult suspense to nonfiction and everything in between. Recent projects have included:

HARD LISTENING, a mixed media memoir by an all-star line-up of literary titans, including Stephen King, Mitch Albom, Scott Turow, Amy Tan, and Dave Barry. The book interweaves, essays, fiction, email conversations, fun quizzes, and archived footage for a unique look inside these authors’ lives.





GEORGETOWN ACADEMY, our “West Wing meets Gossip Girl” YA series, just wrapped up its first season in our new mini-series format and featured our popular choice point technology.



KINGDOM KEEPERS INSIDER, an interactive app that invites readers of the Kingdom Keepers MG book series to help author Ridley Pearson write the seventh and final book in the series. Winners of weekly contests will be included in the final book published by Disney in 2014.



Some of our coolest technology implementations can be found in our interactive series
- Heidi R. Kling’s SPELLSPINNERS OF MELAS COUNTY (YAR) includes multiple pathways and a spooky magic trick in THE GLEANING

- Kira Snyder’s PARISH MAIL (MG/YA mystery) features twisting pathways and choices that unlock special scenes for careful readers

You can see a full list of our titles here:
http://www.coliloquy.com/productscat/titles/
 
ASK ANYTHING!
I’m happy to answer just about anything…our technology, authors, publishing trends, chief kitten officers, marriage, having it all, why Waynn is the best cofounder, pies, mistakes we made, and things we’ve done right…

SUBMIT MANUSCRIPTS TO WIN A READING FROM OUR EDITORIAL TEAM:
Coliloquy’s editorial team will read two unpublished manuscripts or self-published books.

Submit Manuscripts Here═► WIN ONE OF 2 PUBLISHER’S READING OF A MANUSCRIPT

Contest will be open from July 11th through July 14th. Winners will be announced the week of July 15th.

Coliloquy would also like to extend an invite to join their group here:  http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/100361-the-coliloquy-book-group

ASK AN AGENT/GIVEAWAY | BLACK COUNTRY--ALEX GRECIAN | Signed Copies

Modern Good Reads presents: ASK AN AGENT (Part 1)

Come join Seth Fishman, Literary Agent representing Alex Grecian, our Book of the Month author of THE YARD, and the sequel, BLACK COUNTRY.

GIVEAWAYS:

THE YARD, now--June 14th

BLACK COUNTRY June 12th--14th

ASK THE AGENT:  Seth and Alex have graciously agreed to answer questions from Modern Good Reads members related to traditional publishing, an agent’s role in publishing, and all those myriad things we all want to know about working with agents and New York publishers.

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Seth Fishman’s bio:

Seth Fishman (me) was born and raised in Midland, Texas (think Friday Night Lights) and received his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England (think cold and rainy and millions of castles). His YA thriller, The Well's End, is the first in a series and the protagonist, Mia Kish, is roughly inspired by a hometown drama that (when I was young) really blew him away: (http://articles.latimes.com/2012/oct/...).  When not writing, Seth is a literary agent at The Gernert Company (www.thegernertco.com), and thinks writing and agenting are the two very best jobs in the world.
 

Agent/Publications & Experience:

I've been a literary agent for over eight years, beginning at Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc. (www.sll.com) and now, for the past three years, at The Gernert Company (www.thegernertco.com).  My list is deliberately wide-reaching, as I'm fervently of the mind that good writing and strong stories can be found in any genre.  For sake of ease, however, a few published examples in varying categories I rep:

Literary Fiction: NYTimes Bestseller and Orange Prize winner Tea Obreht's The Tiger's Wife, Liz Moore's Heft, Alex Gilvarry's From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant

Hugo winner Will McIntosh's Love Minus Eighty, Ted Kosmatka's Locus finalist The Games.

 

Thriller: Alex Grecian's Bestselling The Yard and The Black Country, Ted Kosmatka's Prophet of Bones.

NonFiction: NY Times Bestseller Maria Konnikova's Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes, BoingBoing Science Editor Maggie Koerth-Baker's Before The Lights Go Out.

Graphic/comic/illustrated: #1 NYTimes Bestseller Kate Beaton's Hark! A Vagrant, Matt Kish's Moby Dick In Pictures

Young Adult: Nora Price's Zoe Letting Go, Shawn Goodman's Something Like Hope

Picture Book: Matthew Olshan's The Mighty Lalouche (This is just out, his future books I rep).

Forthcoming publications (in the next 3/4 months): The Thousand Names by Django Wexler, What The F Should I Drink by Zach Golden, and The Age of Ice by J.M. Sidorova.

Seth Fishman’s debut novel:

The Well's End, a YA thriller, due out from Putnam YA February 2014.  COVER REVEAL June 11th 2013:  http://io9.com/

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/The-Wells-End-Seth-Fishman/dp/0399159908/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1370547143&sr=8-1&keywords=the+well%27s+end

A childhood accident, a bizarre outbreak, and an impossible discovery…

Mia Kish is afraid of the dark. And for good reason. When she was a toddler she fell deep into her backyard well only to be rescued to great fanfare and celebrity.  In fact, she is small-town Fenton, Colorado’s walking claim to fame. Not like that helps her status at Westbrook Academy, the nearby uber-ritzy boarding school she attends. A townie is a townie. Being nationally ranked as a swimmer doesn’t matter a lick. But even the rarefied world of Westbrook is threated when emergency sirens start blaring and the school is put on lockdown, quarantined and surrounded by soldiers who seem to shoot first and ask questions later.  Only when confronted by a frightening virus that ages its victims to death in a manner of hours does Mia realize she may only just be beginning to discover what makes Fenton special.

The answer is behind the walls of the Cave, aka Fenton Electronics. Mia’s dad, the director of Fenton Electronics, has always been secretive about his work. But unless Mia is willing to let her classmates succumb to the strange illness, she and her friends have got to break quarantine, escape the school grounds, and outsmart armed soldiers to uncover the truth about where the virus comes from and what happened down that well.  The answers they find just might be more impossible than the virus they are fleeing.

Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6561855.Seth_Fishman

Website: www.sethasfishman.com

Twitter: @sethasfishman.com

Tumblr: http://sethasfishman.tumblr.com/

Alex Grecian:

http://alexgrecian.com/

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/357573.Alex_Grecian

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GIVEAWAY | THE YARD by ALEX GRECIAN | 2 Signed Copies

MODERN GOOD READS PRESENTS:

BOOK OF THE MONTH & GIVEAWAY:

The Yard by Alex Grecian

June 5th--JUNE 14th

Historical Mystery Thriller:

Victorian London is a cesspool of crime, and Scotland Yard has only twelve detectives—known as “The Murder Squad”—to investigate countless murders every month. Created after the Metropolitan Police’s spectacular failure to capture Jack the Ripper, The Murder Squad suffers rampant public contempt. They have failed their citizens. But no one can anticipate the brutal murder of one of their own . . . one of the twelve . . .When Walter Day, the squad’s newest hire, is assigned the case of the murdered detective, he finds a strange ally in the Yard’s first forensic pathologist, Dr. Bernard Kingsley. Together they track the killer, who clearly is not finished with The Murder Squad . . . but why?

Filled with fascinating period detail, and real historical figures, this spectacular debut in a new series showcases the depravity of late Victorian London, the advent of criminology, and introduces a stunning new cast of characters sure to appeal to fans of The Sherlockian and The Alienist.

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 Sunday Book Review:

Nature of the Beast

‘The Yard’ by Alex Grecian, and More

By MARILYN STASIO

Published: May 25, 2012

Admit it, Victorian mystery fans. We’ve been spoiled by the rigorous scholarship of writers like Peter Ackroyd, lulled by the formal elegance of stylists like Anne Perry. In short, we’ve lost touch with the lurid traditions of the 19th-century potboiler.

Consider THE YARD (Putnam, $26.95) a crude corrective to those literary leanings. This deliciously trashy first novel by Alex Grecian walks the genre back to the era of Jack the Ripper with its bloody tale of a serial killer who is systematically butchering detectives from Scotland Yard’s recently formed Murder Squad. “Jack was the first of a new breed,” Sir Edward Bradford, the police commissioner who created this elite division, remarks. “He opened a door to certain deranged possibilities and there will be more like him.” 

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Alex Grecian:

http://alexgrecian.com/

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/357573.Alex_Grecian

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