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Barry Goldblatt is currently re-open to queries. Please visit our Submission Guidelines page for more info.

Barry will be taking a three month leave of absence for personal reasons, beginning Monday, June 3. This means he will be closed to queries for the duration of his leave. For all matters related to his clients or the agency, please contact either Jennifer or Tricia.

“This metafictional episode matches a funny yarn-spinner with a rain of big letters that drop into sight…a simple story emerges—one that will draw the wayward audience members back and leave them eager for more. Young would-be-writers who are likewise stuck will come away with fresh resolve.” (Booklist)  

In the first book of the Shaw Confessions, the companion series to the New York Times bestselling Mara Dyer novels, old skeletons are laid bare and new promises prove deadly. This is what happens after happily ever after.  

“[An] impressive first novel, set in pre-WWII Hollywood….Gates skillfully evokes a Hollywood era when the studio chiefs wielded enormous power over the lives of everyone in their orbits and would go to any length to protect their stars and big-budget movies. Glamour takes a back seat to lust, lies, and greed in this well-wrought mystery.”—Publishers…

“The World of Stories is in danger, and it’s up to the offspring of famous fairy-tale characters and monsters to team up to save the day. Fairy-tale characters don’t believe in monsters, and monsters don’t believe in fairy tales.” –– Kirkus Reviews

Book #3 in The Enchanted Files series by Bruce Coville is now available! Find all the books in this lovely middle grade series wherever books are sold.

Happy pub day to NEIGHBORHOOD GIRLS, the sophomore novel of 2016 Printz-Honor Award-winning author Jessie Ann Foley. Happy pub day to THE INFAMOUS RATSOS ARE NOT AFRAID, book #2 in the Geisel Award-winning INFAMOUS RATSOS series by Kara LaReau.

Happy pub day to The Princess in Black and the Mysterious Playdate, the 5th book in the NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING PRINCESS IN BLACK SERIES. Happy pub day to MAX AND BIRD, now available in the US.

Happy Pub day to Dan Poblocki! NO WAY OUT is the third book in the SHADOW HOUSE series. “Shadow House has everything I love–strange characters, magic and the supernatural, endless danger and adventure–and a mystery I dare any reader to try to solve.” — R. L. Stine, author of Goosebumps, on Shadow House Book #1