A gecko, still and soundless on the wall, kept me company as it lay in wait. (Sept.) As the new food critic for Key Zest magazine, Hayley Snow went from being a culinary groupie to one of Florida’s cutting. We represent a wide range of authors, including Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners, celebrities, journalists, novelists, humorists, scholars, chefs, and other distinguished authors. Agent: Paige Wheeler, Folio Literary Management. Folio Literary Management is a boutique literary agency (if 18 agents still qualifies as boutique) with vast resources. Anyone who’s ever overpaid for a pretentious restaurant meal will relish this witty cozy. Farley Chase (Chase Literary Agency) Paige Wheeler (Creative Media Agency, Inc. I stayed there a long time, studying the way the moonlight struck the corrugated roof of the chicken coop. Outspoken Mom provides tart commentary as Hayley once again turns sleuth. Steve Troha (Folio Literary Management) Nicole Tourtelot (The Gernert Company). When tatay did not exit after one minute, then five, I carried a chair from the kitchen table and sat by the window. From the middle of the room, I watched my father follow our neighbor in to his house. The kitchen floor was cold against my feet. I held my breath until the back door clicked shut. In the next room my parents’ bed creaked, then tatay’s shadow slipped past my doorway. I was one of the founders of Folio Literary Management, LLC as well as a former television agent and book editor. in 2006, she co-created Folio Literary Management. Korean rights to Naseem Rakha’s THE CRYING TREE, to Taedong, by Celeste Fine, on behalf of Laney Katz Becker at Folio Literary Management, in association with the Danny Hong Agency. After stints in publishing in London, Paige started out as an editor for Harlequin Books in NY and then quickly moved to the agency side of the business. There was a knock, barely audible, like the flapping of wings. One of the top agents of commercial fiction, Paige Wheeler has worked in the publishing industry for over 20 years. Her cotton nightgown tickled my leg as she inhaled and exhaled. Next to me on the low mattress, Malaya’s elbow pressed against me. I watched it climb slowly through space, waiting for it to slip out of sight, for the roosters to crow. The moon was curved like a woman arching her back. I lay staring at the strip of sky that separated the cement walls from the ceiling. Maybe the heat kept me awake that night, or maybe it was the sixth sense nanay always said I had. My childhood ended the night our neighbor, Rodrigo de Guzman, came knocking on our door when I should have been asleep. But when Liwayway befriends an American GI who offers her a reprieve from war, she must choose between the possibility of finding her sister and the promise of a new life. PACHINKO meets HOW MUCH OF THESE HILLS IS GOLDĪfter Japanese forces in the Philippines murder her father and kidnap her younger sister, seventeen-year-old Liwayway joins the Huk guerillas, fighting the Japanese while searching for her sister.
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