About Stearns
Photo by Janie Bynum
Short form: Agent, editor, writer, occasional performer, blowhard, gadfly.
Longer form: Michael Stearns is an agent specializing in children’s books for Firebrand Literary. (And a partner in Firebrand’s parent company, Auden Media). Prior to that gig, he was editorial director, manager of foreign acquisitions for Harper Collins Children’s Books, and before that, he was Senior Editor, Director of Paperback Publishing for Harcourt Children’s Books. Among the books he’s published are Fly by Night by Frances Hardinge; Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy; A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly; Tangerine by Edward Bloor; Gone by Michael Grant; Whales on Stilts by M.T. Anderson; East by Edith Pattou; and a slew of books by Bruce Coville, Jane Yolen, Bruce Hale, Vivian Vande Velde, Andrew Auseon, and Diane Duane, among others. He has taught a dozen classes on writing, edited three anthologies of original stories, and published a half dozen pieces of his own fiction for both adults and children.
(Wow, this whole writing about oneself in third person thing is addictive. Explains a lot about Suede on Project Runway.)
Want to know more? Here are a few Other Things of Minor Interest:
—A recent interview with Writer’s Digest
—An interview with Alice Pope from her indispensible Children’s Writers and Illustrators Market blog
—And another, with the equally indispensible Cynthia Leitich Smith on her Cynsations blog
—The blog I wrote with Frances when we toured the country to support Fly By Night
—On Facebook? Well, so am I. Or how about Goodreads? Twitter? Etc.
—Or, if you want to meet me, you can turn up at one of my speaking gigs.
