I have chosen the winners!
Well, actually, Random Number Generator dot com, has chosen the winners.
Before I announce the winners, I need to tell you one thing: You all had a very good chance of winning.
As soon as Les Stobbe agreed to let me join his agency, I stopped asking people to sign up for the newsletter. So, whereas I was going to promote heavily through October and November, I did no promotion at all. And I ended up with a small list of subscribers (88, to be exact, which a very cool number—it was the number of the taxi-cab my boyfriend and I owned and operated in Anchorage, Alaska). As it turns out, Random Number Generator dot com chose four winners and I happen to know three of those winners.
The truth is, though, that I know more than 75% of the people who signed up for the newsletter. So it makes sense that I’d know 75% of the winners. I’m really surprised I don’t know all of them.
So, there’s my explanation, to any of you who may wonder why I know so many of the winners.
Here are the prizes:
- 1st prize: iPad Mini
- 2nd prize: five books tucked into a lovely book bag
- 3rd prize: the book bag with three books
- 4th prize: the book bag with two books
And now without further ado, the winners in the First (and last) Annual Best Books for Young Readers Sweepstakes:
- 4th prize goes to: Meg Moseley
- 3rd prize goes to: Vicky Alvear Shecter
- 2nd prize goes to: Ben Musclow
- 1rst prize goes to: Suzan Robertson
And now I bid you all adieu. In another week, I’m going to redirect this blog to my agent site. If you want to keep up with me, please subscribe to posts over there.
Thanks!
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Congratulations to the winners!
Sally, just a thought…as an children’s literary agent you are now especially and uniquely qualified to create and share lists of Best Books for Young Readers, especially recently-published works, so I hope you don’t entirely abandon this idea.
Personally, I’d still like to know what you have read and loved. More importantly, it would be a service to potential new clients. Not only would such a list help them understand your tastes/preferences, it might just encourage them to read more (especially more RECENT) works in their target genre. (It never ceases to amaze me when I meet other writers who are trying to write YA, but haven’t read any YA since Judy Blume published Fifteen…and then there’s those aspiring authors who have never read any YA except Twilight. Grrrrrr!)
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Thanks Trisha. I would love to do the newsletter. However there are a couple of things that make me think I shouldn’t t attempt it. One is that I just don’t have time. The second is that once I start selling my clients’ books, I’ll want to highlight them because I love them, obviously, or I wouldn’t be representing them. But if I plug them over others I’ll look like a shill. On the other hand if I plug others but neglect my own clients they might resent me.
Meanwhile, I have put a list of my favorite books on my agent site so people can know what I like. I’ll try to keep it updated.