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.
