Erin Murphy

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President/founder emliterary.com, a boutique agency focused on children’s books. Member AALA. Knitter. Gamer. Cats and dogs. She/Her. Header photo is my backyard in Maine. http://QueryManager.com/ErinMurphy

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I'm so excited that the S&S Children's group is hiring THREE new Editorial Assistants! ✨📚 Come work with me and my fabulous colleagues on some truly incredible kids' books! (Atheneum link is below—you'd be assisting me 💕) If you or someone you know would be a great fit, please be sure to apply.

Job opportunity at Simon & Schuster - Editorial Assistant, Atheneum Booksus232.dayforcehcm.com

Feeling so much about HarperCollins announcing A SIXTY-SEVEN PERCENT INCREASE IN PROFITS in large part due to layoffs, when remaining staffers are so stressed and overworked. Capitalism, man. What a damned world we're living in.

I haven't been on here in awhile, but had to log on just to repost Kate's latest Substack. All writers thinking of trying the gig full-time should read it immediately.

I'm gonna get raked over the coals but I wrote about why being a full time writer is the worst job ever. open.substack.com/pub/katemcke...

Being a Full-Time Writer is the Worst Jobopen.substack.com Buckle Up for Some Tough Love

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Reach into your pockets today, folks, and support the work LAOC is doing. These programs are making a real difference in agents' lives. Please help - we're 74% of the way there! 💜💛🧡

#GivingTuesday is finally upon us! Thank you for letting us share stories about LAOC & the impact your donations have on the publishing industry. We’re 74% of the way to our $50,000 goal. Please consider donating via givebutter.com/oqqwXh and spread the word to get us to 100%!

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Another from Eerdmans Books for Young Readers “A stirring story of perseverance” Building a Dream: How the Boys of Koh Panyee Became Champions #ncte23 Booth 404 www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

BUILDING A DREAM | Kirkus Reviewswww.kirkusreviews.com Kids make their dreams come true.

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First: Sign this petition to let Goodreads know how important graphic novels and books for children are. chng.it/g4R7YqhJ4D Next: Buy a book this weekend.

Sign the Petitionchng.it Dear Goodreads, As publishing professionals, authors, book-buyers, and all-around champions of books for younger readers, we were shocked and discouraged by your decision to remove both the Children��...

I didn’t know the word “emulsify” was going to come up so often in adulthood. For cooking and for recommended use of beauty products.

This week’s new releases at EMLA! Congratulations to our clients: @annenesbet.bsky.social Kevin Lewis @jacobsw.bsky.social Laurie Boyle Crompton

I am so glad to be home for a few weeks… And I also have so much FOMO about NCTE.

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Fake literary agency alert: AG Literary. Web domain 17 days old so a bit hard to figure how they sold so many books already 😜 What they're really selling: a "compelling book proposal", provided by a "third-party vendor" aka the actual scammer agliterary.com

Home - AG Literary Agencyagliterary.com Books to Traditional Publishers Books to TV/Film

A belated happy book birthday to the EMLA clients with new books out this week! Alliah Agostini Anna Staniszewski @janetsfox.bsky.social

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Central Bucks County Pennsylvania school board flips and the 5 Moms of Liberty are out.

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Great news in Johnston, IA. Three current school board members are connected to "Moms for Liberty" and the right-wing organization only needed to win one seat tonight to gain full control of the school board. They lost all four seats, setting up a progressive majority instead.

Traveling home today, arriving long after polls close. Voted last week. Get out there and vote!

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Check out Srinidhi’s work!!! ❤️

Hello #kidlitartpostcard day!! I’d love to work on picture book, Chapter books of curious and funny kids. Represented by @mirandapaul.bsky.social at EMLA Portfolio - www.srinidhidraws.com #kidlitart #kidlit

Dear Apple, I do not want link previews inserted into emails ever. I want plain links always. Please give me a way to change that universally instead of one link at a time. Sincerely, Frustrated

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has anyone been playing Spot The Difference between scholastic's letter to authors and its official statement because ummmmmmmm

Thank you to Spotify's "Scarf Season" playlist for yet another fall day.

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A partial list of what's closed today in Maine—due to one man with a gun: churches, libraries, daycares, soup kitchens, credit unions, medical centers, town offices, dental offices, Catholic schools, public schools, preschools, YMCAs, legion halls. And on, and on, and on... #MassShooting #Lewiston

“We are all fine, and not planning to go anywhere today while the manhunt continues” is not a sentence I ever thought I’d write, but here we are.

An interesting thing about two of these releases (the MG titles, JAWBREAKER and MYRTLE) is that they are releasing simultaneously in hardcover and trade paperback in response to market conditions.

This week’s new releases from EMLA! Congrats to our clients: Christina Wyman & Susan Yoon on their debuts, JAWBREAKER and WAITING FOR TOMORROW Elizabeth C. Bunce on her series wrap (for now), MYRTLE, MEANS, AND OPPORTUNITY Tamara Ellis Smith on her second picture book, GRIEF IS AN ELEPHANT

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“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.” Happy Birthday Ursula K Le Guin

It’s Ursula Le Guin’s birthday. “You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.”

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Looking for an alternative for your school book fair? Thanks to Elizabeth Blye for these suggestions. Instead of Scholastic, if you live in New York/New Jersey, consider Main Street Books in White Plains, and if you live in Connecticut/Massachusetts, consider Best Book Fairs in Woburn, Mass.

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I’m talking about NATURE’S RULE BREAKERS on Kathy Halsey’s blog: groggorg.blogspot.com/2023/10/be-r... @trishtoneylawrence.bsky.social @carolhinz.bsky.social @agentemurph.bsky.social @12x12challenge.bsky.social @infowoman.bsky.social

Be a "Rule Breaker" with Jessica Fries-Gaither and Nature’s Rule Breakers: Animals that Don’t Fi...groggorg.blogspot.com What fun to be interviewing an Ohio author and SCBWI friend, Jessica Fries-Gaither this week for the GROG! We both love NF picture books and...

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"YA is being publicly challenged and a lot of what sells/circulates is now being targeted. While over half of the NYT Teen Bestseller list for almost all of 2023 has been LGBTQ, LGBTQ titles are the most targeted by book banners. I can not emphasize enough how much damage book banning is doing..."

Interesting article from School Library Journal on the current state of the YA / middle grade market, where sales are trending down teenlibrariantoolbox.com/2023/10/18/a...

A Treatise on the State of Middle Grade and Young Adult Publishing Todayteenlibrariantoolbox.com Teen Librarian Karen Jensen discusses the current issues in middle grade and young adult publishing and their impact on reading and libraries

Today’s new releases from EMLA are both for science-loving readers! Congratulations to clients Maria Gianferrari and Elaine Vickers!

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#WriterBeware: Another fake agency doing the solicitation thing: Collins Literary Guild. Web domain just 54 days old, multiple ludicrously false claims of repped books, and a roster of AI "literary agents" w/ bios cribbed from Sanford Greenburger Associates collinslitguild.com

Collins Literary Guildcollinslitguild.com The Collins Literary Guild functions as a specialized firm, providing a comprehensive array of representation services to authors who are at various stages of their publishing journey.

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Yes, Scholastic really did just Plessy v Ferguson books about Black people, queer people, and people from marginalized communities. This is deplorable. bit.ly/3tx0XHy

A Message from Scholastic on U.S. Book Fairs | Scholastic Media Roombit.ly

This week’s new EMLA release is a holiday installment in the Red Truck and Friends series by our own Kersten Hamilton!