Glass Literary Management

12/29/2019

Excited to be going into the New Year with some amazing buzz for 2020 books. Check out these advance blurbs from some of the biggest authors in the world and some of the hottest rising stars for Leslie Streeter's powerful and funny memoir BLACK WIDOW, out in March from Little, Brown and Company. Happy New Year!

"Black Widow is a very special one of a kind book, a wonderfully touching love story that will make you laugh and cry, sometimes on the same page. Even more outstanding is Leslie Gray Streeter's voice. You won't soon forget Black Widow." --James Patterson

"I can only marvel at Leslie Streeter's resilience,
humor and candor. Black Widow is a funny, heartwarming read about one of the worst things that can happen to a person. We should all be this grounded in our day-to-day lives." --Laura Lippman

"Tender, clever and endearing, this story of love and loss will have you alternating between laughter and tears. Leslie's mix of break-it-down humor and heartbreaking truth makes this book playful and deep in all the right places." --Tembi Locke, author of From Scratch

“Black Widow” is a beautiful love story that also happens to be a grief story. Leslie Gray Streeter tells the whole tale—falling in love, marriage, adopting, parenthood, death, moving on—with her captivating wit. Only she could make Black Widow so deeply moving, painfully funny, altogether unforgettable.” --Rob Sheffield, author of Love is a Mix Tape

“Grief is a heavy darkness with spots of unexpected, unpredictable light. Leslie’s book is a light for those still stuck in the dark--a sad, funny, personal story filled with universal truths about life and love and loss.” --Nora McInerny, author of No Happy Endings

"This is a great read for anyone who's suffered loss of a loved one. I'd say it's chicken soup for any soul in grief. Anyone who reads this will undoubtably feel consoled."
--Aphrodite Jones, author of Cruel Sacrifice

"Walking in Leslie's shoes through this book made me humbled and filled with courage. It made me realize how much I love my family and that LOVE conquers all. I’m sorry to see the book end. I can’t recommend it enough." --actor Johnathon Schaech

12/27/2019

'Colors of the Mountain' author Da Chen dies at 57

I am saddened to share the news of the passing of Da Chen, a wonderful writer and friend who I had the privilege of working with for the last fifteen years. Da's many bestselling books, including the memoirs Colors of the Mountain and Sounds of the River, the novel Brothers, and his most recent children's book, Girl Under a Red Moon, just published this past September, continue to move readers around the world and will keep his voice alive forever. Da was a special man, an artist who touched people with seemingly endless generosity and mentorship and joy as well as with his words on the page. We will miss him and send our deepest condolences to his wife Sunny, his son Michael and daughter Victoria and the rest of his friends and family.

Chen's breakthrough came in 1999 with the critically acclaimed, best-selling “Colors of the Mountain,“ in which he recounted the abuses he and his family suffered during the latter years of China's Cultural Revolution.

12/17/2019

The 20 Top Stories On NPR In 2019

Michaeleen Doucleff's How Inuit Parents Teach Kids To Control Their Anger was the #1 top story on NPR in 2019. So excited for HUNT, GATHER, PARENT, due out from Avid Reader Press in 2021!

https://www.npr.org/2019/12/17/787486571/the-20-top-stories-on-npr-in-2019?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20191217&utm_term=4288917&utm_campaign=breaking-news&utm_id=44978912&orgid=305

11/14/2019

So thrilled to congratulate Marcy Dermansky on being long listed for the 2020 Simpson/Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize, alongside some amazing writers. Alfred A. Knopf

11/11/2019

With deepest sympathy: The complications of coping with grief

The amazing and inspirational Leslie Streeter on CBS Sunday Morning yesterday talking about grief and her memoir BLACK WIDOW, out in March from Little, Brown and Company

Those who have lost a loved one share stories of dealing with death and loss, sometimes with unexpected twists

10/25/2019

When Did Everybody Become a Witch?

Pam Grossman is EVERYWHERE. From the front page of today's NYT Weekend Arts section: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/books/peak-witch.html Gallery Books Pam Grossman

Witch parties, witch protests and a bevy of new books: We have reached peak witch.

10/15/2019

Elizabeth Webster and the Court of Uncommon Pleas

Just in time for Halloween, HAPPY PUB DAY to NYT bestselling author William Lashner's first ever middle grade novel, ELIZABETH WEBSTER AND THE COURT OF UNCOMMON PLEAS, which Ridley Pearson says: "delivers ghost-story shivers" and Kirkus calls "a superb mystery." Available everywhere today! Wendy Sherman Disney Books Tracey Keevan

10/14/2019

Elevate: Push Beyond Your Limits and Unlock Success in Yourself and Others (Ignite Reads)

Happy Publication to ELEVATE by Robert Glazer, which we are thrilled to announce is already a The Wall Street Journal (#6) and USA TODAY (#46) bestseller for the week of October 10th. https://www.amazon.com/Elevate-Beyond-Limits-Success-Yourself/dp/1492691488

What are your limits? Care to break them?To inspire change in yourself and your team, you must break free from what's holding you down. In Elevate, Robert Glazer reveals four life-changing principles ― or capacities ― that will allow you to overcome self-limiting beliefs, establish positive habi...

10/14/2019

Up on Publishers Marketplace today!

October 11, 2019
Fiction: General/Other

Activist, performer, and Instagram influencer Aija Mayrock's DEAR GIRL, a debut poetry collection about issues like self-image, sexual identity, and healing, to Allison Adler at Andrews McMeel, at auction, for publication in April 2020, by Glass Literary Management (world English).

10/11/2019

Witches Are Having Their Hour

Wonderful profile and interview with Pam Grossman, author of WAKING THE WITCH, in the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/11/style/pam-grossman-witch-feminism.html

Pam Grossman, author and host of the popular “The Witch Wave” podcast, said witches are having a resurgence among feminists who want authority over their lives.

10/10/2019

Deal of the Day on Publishers Marketplace today! We're so excited for Michaeleen Doucleff and this conversation changing project.

09/12/2019

The Power of Story is Truth

Happy publication to New York Times bestselling author Da Chen's powerful middle grade narrative nonfiction GIRL UNDER A RED MOON, just out from Scholastic. Scholastic

It is the truth of my childhood, remembered in my new book, Girl Under a Red Moon, in a little town called Yellow Stone in southern China.

09/07/2019

VERY NICE is a Goop book club pick!
Marcy Dermansky Alfred A. Knopf goop

https://www.instagram.com/p/B2HNnqWHMHh/?igshid=9q9y4whb40v6

08/27/2019

Happy pub day to chef Waylynn Lucas and this absolutely gorgeous cookbook, which has already been named an Amazon Book of the Month of August. Sunny-Side Up is on sale today! Waylynn Lucas Rodale Books

08/23/2019

What I've Learned From Teaching 'Generation Z' About Trauma

Kate Benson McQuade has the headline on TIME's "Ideas" Page with this powerful piece on what she's learned about young people today from being a high school literature and writing teacher. Her acclaimed linked short story collection Tell Me Who We Were was published this July. William Morrow

Author Kate McQuade on "snowflakes" and trigger warnings

08/20/2019

Guess who's reading VERY NICE... Alfred A. Knopf Marcy Dermansky

08/05/2019

Alfred A. Knopf

VERY NICE continues to rake in the raves... a "New & Noteworthy Book" in The New York Times Books: Marcy Dermansky

The New York Times Books calls VERY NICE by Marcy Dermansky “a mordant satire of wealth and art.” 💵

08/01/2019

Best Books of the Month: Cookbooks, Food & Wine @ Amazon.com

Excited to share that Waylynn Lucas's debut cookbook SUNNY-SIDE UP is an Amazon best book of the month for August! Due out 8/27:

https://www.amazon.com/b/ref=s9_acss_bw_cg_KCedit_9b1_w?node=17276795011&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-2&pf_rd_r=K4JCTQ6AH63QGE8JSXZX&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=3d9daf55-06c4-4126-9f04-806731560054&pf_rd_i=17143709011

07/12/2019

Fabulous VERY NICE reading and discussion at Books Are Magic in Brooklyn last night.

07/12/2019

We are thrilled to report that The Coffee Bean by Jon Gordon and Damon West is officially a major national bestseller: #70 on USA TODAY, #6 on Publishers Weekly, and #2 on The Wall Street Journal for this week! John Wiley and Sons

07/10/2019

Kate Benson McQuade is going on tour for TELL ME WHO WE WERE! Lots of locations to choose from to hear her read from the new collection that Joyce Carol Oates called "Remarkable."

07/09/2019

In 'Very Nice,' Even The Dog Is Unfaithful

More fabulous praise for VERY NICE. Here's two from NPR; a review that states “[A] decidedly modern update to John Cheever’s suburbia;” and a "best books to read right now" segment on the radio, selected by Maris Kreizman:

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/08/738955271/in-very-nice-even-the-dog-is-unfaithful

https://www.wnyc.org/story/summer-roundup-books/

Marcy Dermansky Alfred A. Knopf

Marcy Dermansky's new novel is a tart lemonade of a summer read, full of outspoken characters, libidinous activity — much of it unwise — around a swimming pool, and a beautiful standard poodle.

07/02/2019

We are incredibly privileged to wish a happy pub day to three amazing books and authors today. Kate Benson McQuade's linked story collection TELL ME WHO WE WERE has already been compared to Elizabeth Strout and Helen Oyeyemi, and was just called "an arresting debut" in The Boston Globe; Marcy Dermansky's highly anticipated fourth novel VERY NICE just added a rave in Entertainment Weekly with an A- grade and a wonderful review in Newsday, which declared "Connecticut will never be the same," to its heaps of buzz and early praise; and activist and motivational speaker Damon West's collaboration with NYT bestselling author Jon Gordon, THE COFFEE BEAN, is still the #1 new release in Business and Finance on Amazon, raking in the preorders, and poised to break out. Damon's story is truly incredible and inspirational. We are so lucky to work with these talented and dedicated authors! Happy pub day to all! Please check them out. Links in the comments below.

07/01/2019

Poetic comics, an arresting debut, and lines from a local lawmaker - The Boston Globe

We're thrilled to see this rave for Kate Benson McQuade's TELL ME WHO WE WERE in The Boston Globe, which calls it "an arresting debut". The story collection is out this week from William Morrow.

The latest news from the New England literary scene.

06/25/2019

Review | ‘Very Nice’ is a good book to pack for your vacation. But maybe it’s more than that.

Wonderful, thoughtful review of VERY NICE just up on The Washington Post. Marcy Dermansky Alfred A. Knopf One week till pub!

Marcy Dermansky’s fourth novel is a story of sex and intrigue set around a beautiful pool at a luxurious house.

06/11/2019

Chef Waylynn Lucas reacting to opening the first copy of her new book SUNNY-SIDE UP, due out this August!!

06/07/2019

Excited to see that Damon West's new book with bestselling author Jon Gordon is the #1 New Release on Amazon in Business and Finance and the #23 New Release overall. Out next month!

06/05/2019

Jane Green recommends VERY NICE on the Today Show

VERY NICE touted as a must-have summer read on the Today Show by the amazing Jane Green! Jane's fabulous new book THE FRIENDS WE KEEP is out this week.

06/04/2019

Meet Pam Grossman, the Terry Gross of Witches

Happy pub day to Pam Grossman, the author New York Magazine is calling "the Terry Gross of witches" and Library Journal just compared to Sarah Vowell. Gallery Books. Waking The Witch is on sale today!

The podcast host and author discusses her new book, “pop occulture,” and dating muggles.

06/04/2019

Stepfather Proposes Vows To Stepdaughter — Joins RTM | RightThisMinute

Damon West's touching series of viral videos with his fiancée and new stepdaughter is featured on Right This Minute. THE CHANGE AGENT came out earlier this spring and Damon's new book, THE COFFEE BEAN, co-authored with NYT bestselling author Jon Gordon, is out next month from John Wiley.

When Damon West decided to propose to his girlfriend Kendall, he first asked for the blessing of her daughter Clara, who excitedly suggested that Damon propose right then and there. Later at the wedding, Damon proposed his vows to Clara as her new stepfather. To learn more about this family's touchi...

06/01/2019

GLM clients slaying at Book Expo-- Marcy Dermansky signing galleys of the very buzzy VERY NICE (Knopf, July) to long lines at the librarians lounge; big William Lashner display at the Disney booth for ELIZABETH WEBSTER (Disney, October) Wendy Sherman; and Da Chen headlining the Children's Book & Author Breakfast with the likes of Lupita Nyong'o, Tomi Adeyemi, and Eoin Colfer, and talking about GIRL UNDER A RED MOON (Scholastic, September).

05/31/2019

Yes, Witches Are Real. I Know Because I Am One

Pam Grossman's WAKING THE WITCH, first serial in Time.com! The book comes out next Tuesday and stay tuned for a ton of media coverage.

'Magic is made in the margins'

05/24/2019

EW picks this summer's 35 hottest reads

Marcy Dermansky's VERY NICE is a summer season's "hottest read" in Entertainment Weekly ! Out this July from Alfred A. Knopf

In the EW books department, the best time to read is every day of the year — but there's no…

05/14/2019

BookExpo 2019: Children’s Galleys to Grab

NYT bestselling author William Lashner's first kids book, Elizabeth Webster and the Court of Uncommon Pleas, is a "Children's Galley To Grab" at BEA. This book is a ton of fun. Wendy Sherman

We take a look at some of the unmissable kids’ and YA galleys being showcased at BookExpo.

05/06/2019

Amazing and well-deserved early trade reviews for Marcy Dermansky's VERY NICE, including a STARRED Publisher's Weekly:

".. sly, deceptively simple and thoroughly seductive...Her sharp satire spares none of the characters and teeters brilliantly on the edge of comedy and tragedy."--Publishers Weekly, starred

“… A hell of a lot of stylish fun. Can you top this? is the question posed by each chapter of this upmarket soap opera, and the answer is always yes.” -- Kirkus

05/03/2019

I Never Saw My Friend Again

BAD KID author and storyteller David Crabb's amazing new video is going viral on Buzzfeed

David takes a walk one night, and ends up meeting someone who would change his life forever. David Crabb is a storyteller, writer, performer and host of The ...

05/02/2019

‘Game of Thrones’ is full of heroines. But is the series actually feminist? - The Lily

Kate McQuade and Courtney Sender have the headline on the Washington Post's The Lily today, with this piece on feminism and Game of Thrones. Kate's linked story collection, "Tell Me Who We Were", which Booklist just compared to Elizabeth Strout and Helen Oyeyemi, is out this summer.

From Arya to Daenerys, Brienne to Sansa, there are many strong women on display, but does the show truly endorse different versions of female power? Two women discuss.

04/19/2019

Congratulations to Blake J. Harris and The History of the Future!! After climbing as high as #2 overall on the Amazon rankings last week, it is officially a National Bestseller and has hit The Publishers Weekly (#18), Amazon Charts (#19), and USA Today (#68) bestsellers lists for the week ending April 14.

04/10/2019

Go Blake J. Harris! The History of the Future is the #1 Mover & Shaker and #6 overall on Amazon today.

04/04/2019

Another amazing advance blurb for Marcy Dermansky, just in:

"VERY NICE is deceptively polite, a gracious rebuke to every writer who has sworn it's impossible to write about the times in which we live. Marcy Dermansky found the way in, spotted the connections holding our fragmented world together and made them sing. Her best book to date, which is saying quite a lot."

--Laura Lippman, bestselling author of WHAT THE DEAD KNOW and many others

03/26/2019

Up on Publishers Marketplace today! Big congrats to Caroline Hickey and her wonderful book.

Children's: Middle Grade Fiction

Caroline Hickey's THE GEOGRAPHY OF GINNY P, the story of an opinionated and funny ten-year-old geography fanatic navigating summer in a new town, missing her deployed dad, and bursting with the challenges and rewards of being a little bit different, filled with fun geography facts and illustrated with maps and landmarks from the novel, to Christy Ottaviano at Christy Ottaviano Books, at auction, in a two-book deal, by Alex Glass at Glass Literary Management (NA).

03/20/2019

Leslie Streeter

Leslie Streeter

Two years ago today, I wrote the following post on my private page lamenting that no one seemed to be willing to look outside the box to represent my book, and said that I just needed one to believe in it. Two days later I queried a guy named Rick Pascocello of Glass Literary Management, who emailed me back in like three hours. He got it. We sold "Black Widow" a year and a half later. Just goes to show you - sometimes you have to hold on and hope somebody hears you. Don't stay in your lane if it's better to make your own.

"One of the issues I am having as I pitch my memoir is that the majority of published memoirs by black authors are either specifically about race and being black, or by celebrities. It irks me that it's hard to get the attention of people who just want to hear a universal story that most can relate to of widowhood, loss, single parenting, adoption and survival but through the filter of someone who is black. Our voices are good and strong for more than stories about The Struggle. If I can relate to Joan Didion, others can relate to me. I have another good possibility and a bite from an industry vet with some very impressive credits. We will see."