Jill Grinberg Literary

We're so glad to be sharing our annual recap to reflect on another year of wonderful client news and accomplishments:

jillgrinbergliterary.com/2025-jglms-y...

Wishing everyone a safe and happy holiday season

Congratulations to @authorhien.bsky.social and TWIN TIDES!

A Babymouse Flip Book: LOVE (Heartbreaker + Puppy Love) by Jennifer L. Holm: 9798217115976 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books 2 COMICS IN 1! FOR THE FIRST TIME IN FULL-COLOR! Flip out with Babymouse -- a spunky elementary schooler with boundless imagination -- in this OVERSIZED edition for young readers that includes the two...

We're re-releasing the original BABYMOUSE graphic novels (in FULL COLOR!) as 2-story-in-1 Flip Books! Out right now is BABYMOUSE: LOVE, which combines HEARTBREAKER and PUPPY LOVE! Go pick it up for someone you know who LOVES Babymouse! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/787092...

Envelope with heart and leaves and says who will you nourish?

It's been a *hard* year.

I'm guessing that most of the people in your life don't need another scarf?

Could be that they (and you, too, maybe?) could use some liberatory nourishment and fortification for this next chapter, though?

1/x

50% OFF Unstuck Lyla is thrilled when her seventh-grade ELA class begins a daily creative writing project. For the past year she’s been writing a brilliant fantasy novel in her head, and here’s her chance...

If youre stuck for a holiday gift, check out this special sale on Audiobooks.com!
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Look how stunning!!

Tomorrow! #thelibrarians

A layout showing the Kirkus Reviews masthead and the title, Best Middle Grade Books of the Year. Below, a screenshot of the thumbnail for the starred review of Bird of A Thousand Stories. Pullquote reads "Breathless adventures in richly imagined settings – an entrancing sequel."

Late to share this, but BIRD OF A THOUSAND STORIES made Kirkus Reviews' best middle grade of the year list! I'm very proud of this book, and so grateful to be recognized among some frankly intimidating company.

A list of the best historical fiction books of 2025 in Library Journal.

I'm so excited to see that Library Journal has included The Traitor of Sherwood Forest in their Best Books of 2025!!!

www.libraryjournal.com/story/Stella...

NYC 🎉 see you tomorrow at the Twisted Spine in Brooklyn! 🎟️ available & include price of the book or a gift card. Listen to a reading from 2 actors from the audiobook & Jade Song (Chlorine) & I yap ❤️ #nycevents

Book news I’ve been sitting on for many months and can finally reveal‼️‼️
Thrilled to be publishing my next 2 middle grade novels with Scholastic, and working with editor Sam Palazzi‼️‼️

I’m part of the triple-decker sandwich generation. You probably are as well You’ve heard of caregivers in the sandwich generation. In this anti-compassion Trump 2.0 era, it’s more like a triple-decker sandwich. Alissa Quart has experienced this first-hand

My latest piece for @theguardian.com on the sandwich generation, of which I am one, and how we became the triple sandwich generation in Trump 2.0 www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... @jillgrinberglit.bsky.social @economichardship.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social link in comments

Talk World Radio: The Devil’s Castle AUDIO: Talk World Radio is recorded on Zoom. Here is this week's video and all the videos on Youtube.

Talk World Radio: The Devil’s Castle

AUDIO: Talk World Radio is recorded on Zoom. Here is this week's video and all the videos on Youtube.

THE WONDER OF LIFE ON EARTH is published 5 Feb 2026 and is available for pre-order. For more details inquire within: www.panmacmillan.com/authors/henr...

Thanks, Greater Portland, Maine, for putting Nations Apart atop this week’s Maine Sunday Telegram bestseller list. Great way to start out the book’s life.

Tonight -- the on sale day for Nations Apart -- I'll be at @belmontbooks.bsky.social in the eponymous Boston suburb. (Yes, the town was named for the bookstore... Don't argue, I'm a historian.) Come say hello.

Opinion | There’s Still a Shared American Story, and JD Vance’s Blood-and-Soil Vision Isn’t It

There’ still a shared American story, I write in @nytimes.com, and the data shows it isn’t Vance’s ethnonationalist one. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...

I will be closed to queries beginning November 1st, 2025 so I can catch up on my backlog of submissions.

If I requested via DVpit or another pitch event, you are still welcome to send and please put "[pitch event] request" in the subject line.

Star Light, Star Bright *The* first star I see tonight.

New newsletter just dropped. Please subscribe if you haven’t already, I don’t send them too often, and they’ve been known to bring you a giggle or a thoughtful nod. This one is about the Kirkus star and finding joy when the world is *gestures*.

Improved Psychiatric Care, Through History The moral treatment, Soteria, trialogue—many experts have found great ways to treat mental distress. Just look at history.

"There are many ways to treat mental distress effectively, just look at history." A smart and hopeful piece by Susanne Paola Antonetta, author of THE DEVIL'S CASTLE, via @psychologytoday.com: bit.ly/4o9dit6. @jillgrinberglit.bsky.social @catapultbooks.bsky.social

The Doctor Who Trained Nazis and Changed Psychiatry Emil Kraepelin trained Nazi doctors and helped shape the DSM.

Another excellent excerpt from Susanne Paola Antonetta's latest book, THE DEVIL'S CASTLE, this one in @psychologytoday.com:

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mad-...

Thank you to @motherjones.com for running this important piece from Suzanne Paola Antonetta's new book, THE DEVIL'S CASTLE, which publishes tomorrow from Counterpoint Press.

Nice personal news to share among all of this political misery. Just sold my new book Terra Infirma to @pantheonbooks.bsky.social & editor @deniseoswald.bsky.social, Squeezed's editor. Thanks @jillgrinberglit.bsky.social and @economichardship.bsky.social Read about it in @publisherswkly.bsky.social

The Next Big Idea Club’s November 2025 Must-Read Books These titles will be included in our longlist of potential titles for Season 28 of the Next Big Idea Club.

Nations Apart, my forthcoming book, made the @nextbigidea.bsky.social's November Must Read list. (Curators are Malcom Gladwell, Susan Cain, Daniel Pink and Adam Grant.) That's good, right?

nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/nex...

On Repentance and Repair by Danya Ruttenberg: 9780807013311 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books Winner NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS in Contemporary Jewish Life & Practice Myra H. Kraft Memorial Award A crucial new lens on repentance, atonement, forgiveness, and repair from harm—from personal...

Speaking of: ON REPENTANCE AND REPAIR is getting a lil update of its Israel/Palestine section, I'm told that the ebook (now $2.99!!!) should be updated by tomorrow:

BLOOD MOON @britneyslewis.bsky.social is an *instant* #1 New York Times bestseller and Indie bestseller!!

New York NIMBYs Turn Against Democracy Local lawmakers want to preserve their power to block housing. Does what voters think matter at all?

"New York’s growth machine has been replaced by an anti-growth machine—one that thrives on chronic voter disengagement.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Happy book birthday to THE GIVING FLOWER, which is is out today from Sourcebooks!

What Labor Day Sales Say About the American Dream Alissa Quart writes about the relationship between Labor Day sales and economic opportunity in America.

My latest story for @timemagazine.bsky.social on Labor Day, Labor Day Sales and the American Dream. A very personal essay time.com/7313480/labo... @eccobooks.bsky.social @economichardship.bsky.social @jillgrinberglit.bsky.social @maiasz.bsky.social @maassp.bsky.social @economichardship.bsky.social

Britney S. Lewis on the Mistreatment and Omission of Black Girls in the Fantasy Space Author Britney S. Lewis reflects on how the paranormal genre has slighted its Black heroines and how she aims to rewrite the narrative in her new YA novel, 'Blood Moon.'

Before she became an author, Britney S. Lewis grew up noticing the erasure of Black protagonists in paranormal stories. Here, she reflects on how her favorite genre has mistreated its Black heroines and how she aims to rewrite the narrative in her new YA novel, Blood Moon.