2015 Year of Success!

As you know, here at Sub It Club we are all about submitting work well! We are truly happy to see the growth of all of our members as they work towards their goals. Whether you have been learning to write that first query letter, are trading with critique partners and polishing up your manuscript, getting out your illustration postcards, submitting to agents or editors, or any of the million little things that have to be done to submit your work, we are proud of you! Of course, obtaining representation and publication are the big milestones that we strive for our efforts to lead to. Many of our members signed with agents, sold books, and were published in 2015! Let’s celebrate this great news from our Sub It Club members!

Ariel Gordon Bernstein signed with agent Mary Cummings of Betsy Amster Literary this year and signed a book deal for her picture book, I HAVE A BALLOON, with Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman books. Scott Magoon is to illustrate. She also signed a two book chapter book deal with Viking! The first book is called WARREN & DRAGON’S 100 FRIENDS.

Stella Michel signed with agent Liza Pulitzer Voges of Eden Street Literary!

Rachelle E. Morrison signed with agent Mary C. Moore of Kimberley Cameron & Associates this month!

Rachel Moser-Hardy signed with agent Jaida Temperly of New Leaf Literary!

Amy Neeren‘s short story, AIRPLANE SILENCE was published at pif magazine.

Illustrator Amy Nielander‘s debut picture book THE LADYBUG RACE was released in July by PomegranateKids, and it is marked as a bestseller on the site! The book was a 2014 Silent Contest entry finalist.

Jessica Pennington Signed with agent Michelle Wolfson of Wolfson Literary this year!

Gina Perry‘s debut as an illustrator for trade picture books, SO WHAT SHOULD DAD BE?, written by Dan Bar-el will be published by Tundra in Spring of 2017. Her author/illustrator debut picture book, SMALL, will be published by Little Bee Books in Fall of 2017.

Terry Pierce had her rhyming fiction picture book, MY BUSY GREEN GARDEN acquired by Tilbury House. Publication date is set for fall 2017 with illustrations by Carol Schwartz.

Saara Samin had her first short story ‘The Scent’ published by Prachya review in their Winter issue.

Janice Lynch Schuster‘s interview with Dr. Ray Barfield, a pediatric oncologist and palliative care doctor, leads the January 2016 issue of The Sun Magazine, a national monthly.

Misa Sugiura began working with with Leigh Feldman of Leigh Feldman Literary this summer.

Christi R. Suzanne‘s micro prose piece, KEEPING AND LOSING, was published st 101 Words.

Elliah Terry signed with Steven Chudney of The Chudney Agency. He then sold her Middle Grade debut novel I AM CALLIOPE JUNE to Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan in a pre-empt. The novel will be published Spring 2017.

Angela Thomas signed with agent Brooks Sherman of The Bent Agency plus she won the WNDB Walter Dean Myers Grant!

Sarah Vance-Tompkins sold her debut YA novella KISSES ON A PAPER AIRPLANE to Inkspell Publishing in September 2015. 

Yvonne Ventresca signed with Liza Fleissig of the Liza Royce Agency, who sold her second YA novel BLACK FLOWERS, WHITE LIES to Sky Pony Press for publication in fall 2016. Plus her debut novel, Pandemic, won SCBWI’s Crystal Kite Award for the Atlantic region!

 

 

Mark S. Waxman‘s debut Middle Grade comedy novel, THE McVENTURES OF ME, MORGAN McFACTOID – HAIR TODAY GONE TOMORROW is to be released by Sky Pony Press  on January 12, 2016!

Wow, isn’t that a lot of amazing news? How inspirational!

Let’s support our fellow Sub It Clubbers and their successes! Of course, you can buy their books but there are other ways to be supportive too. Add their books to your “to read” list on Goodreads, make a purchase request for their book at your local library, write a book review or share about a book on social media. Follow each other on social media!

Here’s to another great year to all of you who take part in Sub It Club. We wish you all success in 2016!