Grab a warm cup of coffee, tea, or hot chocolate and a good book. Here are our in new books, authors and news . . . our highlights below include new releases, contracts signed, notable reviews and PR events, new authors to the agency and other news of note by clients and agents.
New Releases
Congratulations to Kris Tarantino with Cori Doerrfeld and Waterbrook Publishing for December 19th release of Be My Valenslime.
Snoodle is an unusual monster. She loves candy hearts, fun parties, fuzzy kittens, fancy hats, sparkly stickers, and . . . valentines! There’s just one problem: Monsters don’t do Valentine’s Day!
And when Snoodle tries to throw a Valentine’s Day party for her monster friends, nothing goes right. Every attempt to show them what love looks like turns into monster mayhem! With each disaster, Snoodle tries to be patient and kind, and to not be rude or get easily angered. But if the party isn’t perfect, how can Snoodle convince the other monsters to be her Valenslime?
Debut author Kris Tarantino and New York Times bestselling illustrator Cori Doerrfeld bring to life a wonderful cast in this laugh-out-loud exploration of the true meaning of love.
New Clients
Henry Rausch recently signed with WordServe. Welcome!
What We’re Celebrating
Congratulations Patricia Raybon! Double the Lies earned Christianity Today’s Fiction 2024 Book Award. Christianity Today describes selections for this prestigious award as: “the books most likely to shape evangelical life, thought, and culture.” Read the entire award review at https://rushtopress.org/13522-2/.
A Final Word for 2023
Another year in publishing has come and gone and for WordServe, it was another solid year. We celebrated our 20th year as an agency and are hugely grateful to be able to continue the work we love.
We were able to place more than 60 new titles, about 20% of which were by new authors and 25% to general market houses. We secured 15 new collaboration projects, 4 movie options, and several audio/video deals.
We said goodbye to long-time agent Sarah Freese and said hello to our new agent, Emma Fulenwider, who’s working near her Sacramento home. Nick Harrison continues to contribute to WordServe with a few deals, some writing projects under his name, and attending many writer conferences a year, scouting new talent. And our indispensable Julie Gabrisch keeps the website updated, and everything else organized. It’s a great team and I’m honored to lead it.
Have a Happy New Year!
Greg Johnson
President
P.S. We moved out of our office so everyone is working remote. Our new mailing address is 700 Colorado Blvd., #318, Denver, CO 80206.
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