Marie Lamba, Author

06/11/2025

Time for some summertime GREEN GREEN fun! Attn: parents, teachers, librarians, kids... GREEN GREEN: A COMMUNITY GARDENING STORY is featured in the Food Explorers Summer Reading List, AND! GREEN GREEN, along with all the other featured summer titles has a slew of fun related activities that kids can do (5 different ones for GREEN GREEN alone). Check it out, read, explore and enjoy! https://www.spoonsacrossamerica.org/food-explorers-summer-reading-list

05/09/2025

Just got copies of the German translation for my picture book A DAY SO GRAY. So fun to see this!

04/22/2025

Happy Earth Day! Want to be more GREEN GREEN? Check out GREEN GREEN: A COMMUNITY GARDENING STORY and read it with the kiddos. Story ends with things you can do to help the Earth and Bees, plus a craft. :) Co-authored with Baldev Lamba, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

A Community Gardening Story

03/27/2025

A DAY SO GRAY is a Kindle Daily Deal! You can nab it for your ereader for only $1.99!

Here's the link:
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01/19/2025

Snowy day! Curl up with this picture book, then go for a winter walk and look for colors and shapes in the landscape. Grab it on ebook. 😉

Once you start to notice, colors and reasons for gratitude are everywhere, and that changes everything! Celebrate the hues and comforts of a cozy winter day as a discontented girl at first notices only dull grays and browns in a snowy landscape but is coaxed by her friend to look more closely. So...

01/04/2025

Time to kick off the new writing year! The Doylestown Bookshop has a great bunch of workshops for writers who want to sharpen their craft and sell their works. I'm kicking it off on Wednesday, January 15th with my PITCH AND QUERY LIKE A PRO class - perfect for anyone interested in getting a literary agent. (I'm a senior literary agent). Q&A included. Spots are still available, so you can snag your tickets here:

Lit Lab: Winter Workshop Series with Marie Lamba Join The Doylestown Bookshops’ Winter Workshop Series through January and February as we host five authors who will present various topics for upcoming, newly published, or seasoned writers.  This workshop requires tickets. There are two options. O...

12/28/2024

Writers, start off the New Year with my PITCH AND QUERY LIKE A PRO workshop at The Doylestown Bookshop Weds. Jan. 15 at 6pm. I'm a literary agent & I'm looking forward to sharing tips and tricks. Pre-registration a must.

Lit Lab: Winter Workshop Series with Marie Lamba Join The Doylestown Bookshops’ Winter Workshop Series through January and February as we host five authors who will present various topics for upcoming, newly published, or seasoned writers.  This workshop requires tickets. There are two options. O...

09/08/2024

Ready for a haunted romance to read by the fireplace this fall? My novel DRAWN...
https://marielamba.wordpress.com/2024/09/08/drawn-haunted-romance/

07/15/2024

Join author Gregory Frost as he celebrates the launch of his new RHYMER fantasy novel RHYMER: HOODE, just out through Baen Books! Greg will be reading and signing copies at Main Point Books in Wayne, PA this Sunday, July 21st from 2-3 p.m. In this novel, when Thomas Rhymer assumes the identity of one Robin Hoode in his hunt to bring down evil faeries, epic adventure ensues! I'll be there! Who else is coming?

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07/11/2024

My Cafe Chat with SCBWI Eastern PA Chapter is up here. Join us for a cuppa.

Eileen Ruvane interviews author and literary agent Marie Lamba in advance of her Mastering the Middle-Grade Novel presentation at the upcoming event First Page Center Stage LIVE in Lancaster on Sep…

05/21/2024

This is so cool! I love seeing GREEN GREEN being shared with students. Thanks to ASLA and Landscape Architects who are using this picture book in classrooms! Tagging Baldev Lamba!

by Arnaldo D. Cardona, ASLA Is STEM a hands-on experience exclusively, or can it also be a literacy experience? The answer is emphatically the latter! To support ASLA’s STEM Literacy by Design init…

04/22/2024

Happy EARTH DAY! Be GREEN GREEN!

From authors Marie and Baldev Lamba comes Green Green, a charming, rhyming picture book about a city's green space growing and changing, with illustrations from Eisner Award-winner, Sonia Sanchez. Green grass is wide and fresh and clean for a family to play in, and brown dirt is perfect for digging....