Laurel Snyder: Up and Down the Scratchy Moutains

Title:  Up and Down the Scratchy Mountains
Author:  Laurel Snyder
Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher:  Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 978-0375847196
1. First off, congratulations on the big novel sale! Give us the elevator pitch. What’s your book about?Up and Down the Scratchy Moutains (OR The Search for a Suitable Princess) is a kind of old fashioned fairy tale that [...]

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Peter Clenott: Hunting the King

Title: Hunting the King
Author:   Peter Clenott
Hardcover: 384 pages
Publisher:  Kunati, Inc.
ISBN: 978-1601641489
1. First off, congratulations on the big novel sale! Give us the elevator pitch. What’s your book about?HUNTING THE KING follows archaeologist Molly O’Dwyer into war torn Iraq in search of the remains of Jesus and his illegitimate daughter Hannaniah. Molly witnessed her mother’s death [...]

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Julie Compton: Tell No Lies

Title:  Tell No Lies
Author:  Julie Compton
Hardcover: 368 pages
Publisher:  St. Martin’s Minotaur
ISBN: 978-0312378752
1. First off, congratulations on the big novel sale! Give us the elevator pitch. What’s your book about?Tell No Lies is a legal thriller, described by the publisher as part Scott Turow, part Jodi Picoult; it’s not so much a whodunit as a whydunit. [...]

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