News Flash! October 14, 2007

Deb News:

Deb Jenny was invited to be on a panel for the prestigious Virginia Festival of the Book in March.

Also link here to download Jenny’s mention on Michael Feldman’s Whad’Ya Know? on NPR. Download Part C of the October 6th show, it runs at the four-minute mark!

Guest Author Series: This week, on Thursday the 18th, talented author Amanda Eyre Ward will be our guest blogger. Amanda is the award winning author of Sleep Toward Heaven, How to Be Lost and Forgive Me and we are thrilled to have her!

Deb Friends:

Friend of the Debs, the boob lady Elisabeth Squires’ fabulous book bOObs: A Guide to your Girls has come out to great acclaim.

Deb pal Mike Robbins’ new book Focus on the Good Stuff hit the San Francisco Chronicle’s bestseller list this week. Can the NYT be far behind? Way to go Mike!

Fellow Backspacer Ally Carter’s YA novel Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy has hit #8 on the New York Times Bestseller’s list! Awesome news, Ally!

Yet another Backspacer Marcus Sakey sold film rights to his hugely successful debut thriller, The Blade Itself.

And Backspacer and all around fun gal Jackie Kessler’s second book in her Hell’s Belle’s series, The Road to Hell, has been released to wonderful reviews, including the Romantic Times review that called it “one helluva read: put Kessler on your must-buy list.” Of course we all knew she was a fabulous writer and are thrilled everyone else knows it now too!