🏠 Founder & Agent at Neighborhood Literary.
📚 Award-winning Author.
👴🏽 Perpetually Tired Dad.
Latest book: With or Without You (a Junior Library Guild selection!), out now!
🚪 https://www.neighborhoodliterary.com
Eric Smith
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And it was today, on the last day of school, that I finally talked to that cool dad who always exchanges a quick nod with me while we wait at drop off.
Oh my heart, two weeks on the USA Today bestseller list for beloved client @mkengland.bsky.social.
We’ve worked together for years and watching things take off like this is the result of so much hard work.
Writer friends, don’t give up. Keep going. I hope lists are in your future too.
I am thrilled to announce that my debut novel will be published in spring 2028! It's been a whirlwind journey and I'm so thankful for everyone's support. Extra special thanks to my amazing agent @giannamarie.bsky.social for believing in me and championing disabled stories by disabled authors! 🥰💜♿✈️
The LAOC’s 2026 Literary Auction for Change is officially live! Go check out all the amazing items and put your bids in before 6/12!
www.32auctions.com/LAOC
I know I’m a publishing professional of a certain age because every time I read contracts and they mention “CD-i” under electronic media my mind immediately goes to these:
Playing the new Resident Evil and it’s a blast, but man, can you imagine being an architect hired to build these facilities for the bad guys?
“So wait… only a sun, moon, or star pendant can open these doors?”
“Yesssssss.”
“Sir isn’t this a hospital?”
When your laptop slows down and the fan starts whirring loudly because you’ve got THAT many track changed edits, it’s like salt in the wound.
Scammers keep on coming. Just a reminder that in no world would an editor at Penguin Random House have an email address that looks like this:
Well, apparently someone is also cold calling people pretending to be me.
Someone forwarded me the email and phone number and… I kinda want to call them.
So to help make this year’s Philadelphia Bookstore Crawl a success, we’re doing a little fundraising!
If you’ve enjoyed our big event and can help out, we could use a hand paying for some things! www.phillybookstorecrawl.com/updates/join...
Whoa! It’s June already, which means the crawl is just two months away. While we’ve got some wonderful in-kind sponsors wrangled up (a few box of books just arrived on my doorstep from Berkley, thank...
