News
5/25/25: Elliot Lichtman, author of The Computer Always Wins, profiled in Yale Alumni Magazine: “Undergrad wins the publishing game”
5/15/25: The Art of Exile by Andrea Max book launch at The Ripped Bodice in Brooklyn, in conversation with Laura Samotin.
5/14/25: The Art of Exile by Andrea Max book launch at Books of Wonder in Manhattan, in conversation with A.R Vishny
5/13/25: The Art of Exile by Andrea Max book launch at B&N Paramus, New Jersey
5/13/25: Kirkus Reviews praises The Art of Exile by Andrea Max: “An inventive, compelling debut that’s sure to leave readers eager for the next installment.”
5/7/25: Kate Shannon Jenkins in Broadcast: “Toward a Maternal Gaze”
4/25/25: The Art of Exile by Andrea Max featured in Publisher’s Weekly: “2025 YA Trends: Bouncing Between the Dark and Light”
4/22/25: Booklist praises The Art of Exile by Andrea Max: “Ada is a convincing heroine, and it’s a delight to watch her insecurities dissolve in newly found confidence. Max’s world building and characterizations are remarkable, with a great setup for more thrilling adventures in this series starter.”
4/15/25: J-Wire praises The Art of Exile by Andrea Max: “Author Andrea Max is a gifted writer, contrasting the authentic colloquial expressions of teenagers with the more elevated tone of philosophical discourse, both skillfully blended together. But it is in the creation of the independently-minded Ada and the host of captivating characters that flit so colourfully through this book that the author triumphs. They are a cast of living and breathing entities, both human and ethereal, with their individual brilliance and flaws, who capture our attention and imagination. Ultimately, this is a story about two different civilisations, where conflict could ignite destruction and death. Will Ada’s compassion and her sense of justice secure a fairer, more positive and peaceful outcome? The pace of events unfolding in multiple ways keeps the reader guessing and enthralled.”
3/27/25: Nikki Lyssy joins Sophie Trist and Jasminne Mendez in AWP panel “Beyond Blind Prophets & Saintly Sufferers: Writing Disability in YA”
9/25/24: Eva Langston débuts as cohost of This Mamma is Lit! podcast
4/10/24: Deal Announcement, Children's Young Adult Fiction
Andrea Max's THE ART OF EXILE, the first in the Academy of Muses science fantasy series, pitched as THE ATLAS SIX meets THE DA VINCI CODE, in which a teen girl infiltrates a secret school for the descendants of exiled Renaissance masters to steal their long-lost arts and sciences, and must suppress her growing feelings for the mentor she's lying to, while faking a relationship with her nemesis—who is as handsome as he is deadly—to prevent her theft from reigniting a centuries-old inquisition, to Sarah McCabe at Margaret K. McElderry Books, in a six-figure deal, at auction, in a two-book deal, for publication in summer 2025, by Ali Lake at O'Connor Literary Agency (world). Film/TV: Ali Lefkowitz at Anonymous Content
11/1/23: Deal Announcement, Debut Fiction
Spruceton Inn owner and director of its artist residency Casey Scieszka's THE FOUNTAIN, about a woman who has stayed 26 for over a century and finally returns to the home she abandoned in the 1800s in order to solve the mystery of her existence; an exploration of what gives life meaning and how we allow our history to shape the way we see ourselves, to Sarah Stein at Harper, in a significant deal, in a pre-empt, for publication in spring 2026, by Ali Lake at O'Connor Literary Agency (world English). Film/TV: Danny Hertz at The Gotham Group
5/31/23: Elliot Lichtman in Quanta Magazine: “Data Compression Drives the Internet. Here’s How It Works”
5/11/23: Deal Announcement, Non-fiction: Science/Technology
High school senior Elliot Lichtman's THE COMPUTER ALWAYS WINS, a guide to computer algorithms, all taught by reference to some familiar board game, strategy game, or word game, to Elizabeth Swayze at MIT Press, by Ali Lake at Janklow & Nesbit (world English).
9/2/22: Kate Shannon Jenkins in Gawker: “The Lost Redemption Arc”