March 25 - 27, 2010 - Allentown, PA

 

 

 

Editors
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2010 Write Stuff Editor Bios 

Laurie Edwards, a former teacher and librarian, has more than 20 years of editing experience with several different publishers. Her love of YA literature led her to open Leap Books with the aim of publishing high-quality fiction for teens and tweens. Leap Books, a member of Children’s Book Council, opened on the night of the blue moon, and that magical occurrence heralded the launch of their first authors toward their dreams. Leap Books plans to stay small and spend time promoting their authors and helping them develop their careers. There will be no mid-list authors at Leap; we only accept top-notch authors with terrific ideas and strong writing skills. Leap hopes to get teens excited and eager to read more, to encourage reluctant readers to pick up books, and to put out books with artistic appeal. At the same time, they’re looking to introduce fresh new voices to the world. More information is available on the company’s website at www.leapbks.com. In addition to editing, Laurie also juggles a freelance writing career. Her writing credits include RIHANNA (PEOPLE IN THE NEWS) for Lucent and “Summer Storms” in SUMMER LOVIN’, an anthology from Wild Rose Press, as well as more than 1000 articles in national publications, encyclopedias, reading books, and educational databases.

 Our Surge line for teens (ages 14-19) will feature paranormals, contemporaries, inspirationals, and mysteries. Our Frolic line for tweens (ages 10-14) will focus on the same categories, but we’ll be putting out lighter paranormals for this age group. We also plan to branch out with fantasy, historical, and multicultural titles. I'd be glad to hear middle grade pitches as well.

Renee Rocco and husband Frank Rocco own Lyrical Press, a general fiction publisher based in New York. Although Lyrical Press is actively seeking erotica and romance and paranormal sub-genres, they welcome all submissions (including action-adventure, fantasy, historical, horror, humor, mystery, science fiction) except screenplays, young adult and poetry works. At this time Lyrical Press is closed to self-published and/or previously published works and will not consider works longer than 100,000 words.

 

 
 
 
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