Marie Lamba
@marielamba
Author of A DAY SO GRAY (Clarion), GREEN GREEN (FSG), DRAWN, OVER MY HEAD, WHAT I MEANT... Senior Lit Agent at The Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency. Opinions my own.
SO THRILLED to announce the sale of Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency client @erinteagan.bsky.social Erin Teagan's hilarious and sweet contemporary middle-grade novel THE PINKY PACT - pitched as a NEVER HAVE I EVER for tweens - to Wendy Loggia at Delacorte! Yeah Erin!!!!
Baldev and I will be signing our picture book GREEN GREEN: A COMMUNITY GARDENING STORY on Thursday July 16th from 9:30-11 am at The National Building Museum in DC! Also a storytime there. Find us next to the museum store! Stop by and say hello :) @mackidsbooks.bsky.social
Huzzah! JDLA client Dora M. Mitchell's @inkybeast.bsky.social spooky and witty middle-grade graphic novel PENNY WICKWELL'S BOOK OF MONSTERS is coming out through Putnam Children's! The deal report just posted. Congrats Dora!
Congrats to JDLA client Franco Aureliani @awyeahfranco.bsky.social and Mike Hartigan @mikehartigan.bsky.social! Their mg graphic novel CHASE SPEEDINGTON AND THE WRATH OF SAFRIO MOO is forthcoming from Papercutz! @papercutzgn.bsky.social
So thrilled to share this wonderful picture book deal with JDLA client Franco Aureliani @awyeahfranco.bsky.social and fab illustrator Thomas A Boatwright for MOTHMAN, coming out through Holiday House Books for Young People!
New deal announcement! Congrats to Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency client author/illustrator Jennifer O'Connell! Her lovely picture book SAVING PUFF will be published by Muddy Boots!
Congrats to JDLA client Claire Polders! @clairepolders.bsky.social Claire's stunning and haunting speculative novel YOUR BODY OF MINE will be published by Vine Leaves Press @vineleavespress.bsky.social Yeah!!!
Excited to share this audio deal for Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency client @clairepolders.bsky.social Claire Polders' flash fiction collection WOMAN OF THE HOUR with Tantor Audio! @tantoraudio.bsky.social Congrats, Claire!
I'm beyond thrilled to announce the sale of this debut romcom by JDLA client Melanie Moore @melaniemoorewrites.com to Blackstone Publishing! @blackstonepub.bsky.social I've long been looking for a smart rom-com that could become the next great chick-flick - and this one nails it! Congrats, Melanie!
Time for some summertime GREEN GREEN fun! GREEN GREEN: A COMMUNITY GARDENING STORY is featured in the Food Explorers Summer Reading List. The list includes fun kid activities for every title there! Check it out, read, explore and enjoy! www.spoonsacrossamerica.org/food-explore...
Thanks so much to The Doylestown Bookshop for including me in The Bucks County Book Fest! We did an interesting panel on Publishing Paths with author Ashleigh Renard, agent Adam Chromy, and moderated by S&S book rep Tim Hepp. Loved seeing everyone & signing GREEN, GREEN copies :)
So excited to announce the deal for two more books in the fun TURKEY TROUBLE series by Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency client Wendi Silvano! TURKEY'S AUTUMN TROUBLE and TURKEY'S LEPRECHAUN TRAP will both be published by Two Lions, illustrated by Lee Harper. Congrats!!!
Thrilled to announce a huge audio deal with @tantoraudio.bsky.social - 42 titles in the Adventures of the Bailey School Kids series, with more than 30-million copies sold to date! Congrats authors Debbie Dadey and Marcia Thornton Jones! Proud to broker this deal at Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency
Congrats to Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency client Rob Costello @cloudbusterrob.bsky.social! Audio rights for his debut YA novel AN UGLY WORLD FOR BEAUTIFUL BOYS just sold at auction to Tantor Media! Woohoo!
So very excited to announce this deal for Dave Scheidt @davescheidt.com and JDLA client Scoot McMahon's @scootcomics.bsky.social new #middlegrade #graphicnovel OLLIE ISLAND in a 2-book 6-figure deal with Penguin Workshop! Woohoo! Huge congrats!!! #kidlit #kidlitart #comics
Happy to share the announcement in @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social for NINJA KAIJU, co-created by JDLA clients Franco @awyeahcomicsny.bsky.social and Scoot @scootcomics.bsky.social with @adamwallenta.bsky.social @papercutzgn.bsky.social editing! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
So excited to announce this new #graphicnovel deal by Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency clients Franco Aureliani @awyeahfranco.bsky.social and Scoot McMahon @scootcomics.bsky.social to @adamwallenta.bsky.social and Chris Fernandez @papercutzgn.bsky.social! Congrats to all!!! #kidlitart #kidlit