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Media appearances, press, and events
featuring my clients and their work.
8/19/25
Think being a great writer is enough to get published today? Think again. In this episode of Cover Brand, host Ethan Decker welcomes Melanie Jennings, a novelist on the cusp of publishing her first fiction book, to talk honestly about what it takes to build an author brand in a crowded market.
7/15/25
In The Computer Always Wins, Elliot Lichtman teaches some of computer science’s most powerful concepts in a refreshingly accessible way: exploring them through word games, board games and strategy games you already know.
Elliot Lichtman, author of The Computer Always Wins, interviewed on Cool Science Radio.
7/15/25
Eva Langston launches The Long Road to Publishing podcast, interviewing successful authors about their long and bumpy paths to publishing and asking for their “tips for the road.”
6/26/25
Love triangles get a bad reputation—often deserved, sometimes not. But when done well, they can be one of the most emotionally satisfying dynamics in fiction. They tap into something elemental: desire, power, uncertainty, and the question at the heart of all coming-of-age stories, “Who am I becoming, and who do I want by my side when I get there?”
Andrea Max, author of The Art of Exile, pens “Writing a Love Triangle That Even the Haters Will Love” in Writer’s Digest
6/26/25
Elliot Lichtman started teaching online classes in computer science when he was a freshman in high school. Small classes quickly grew into a series of larger and longer offerings, and from those, his book The Computer Always Wins was born.
Elliot Lichtman, author of The Computer Always Wins, interviewed on Daily STEM podcast
6/26/25
Learn recursion by playing tic-tac-toe, efficient search through puzzle games like sudoku and Wordle, and machine learning by way of the playground classic rock-paper-scissors.
Elliot Lichtman, author of The Computer Always Wins, interviewed on New Books Network podcast.
5/25/25
Like a lot of things, it began with the pandemic. Elliot Lichtman ’27 was a freshman in high school, and he started tutoring younger students in computer science. By his senior year in high school, he had turned his curriculum into a book, The Computer Always Wins, which was published by MIT Press in April.
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.
7/15/25
“An inventive, compelling debut that’s sure to leave readers eager for the next installment.”
Kirkus Reviews praises The Art of Exile by Andrea Max
4/25/25
McCabe is editor of The Art of Exile by Andrea Max, about a teen who infiltrates a secret school for the descendants of exiled Renaissance masters to steal their long-lost arts and sciences. McCabe says it’s “an example of dark academia’s sister category—light academia,” with “all the exciting elements that make dark academia great, but the voice has a lighter tone” and the stories are more hopeful.
The Art of Exile by Andrea Max featured in Publisher’s Weekly: “2025 YA Trends: Bouncing Between the Dark and Light”.
4/22/25
Elliot Lichtman, author of The Computer Always Wins, interviewed on New Books Network podcast.
3/27/25
Eva Langston débuts as cohost of This Mama is Lit!, Literary Mama’s monthly podcast featuring interviews with mama writers.
9/25/25
Nikki Lyssy joins Sophie Trist and Jasminne Mendez in AWP panel “Beyond Blind Prophets & Saintly Sufferers: Writing Disability in YA”.
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5/31/25
With more than 9 billion gigabytes of information traveling the internet every day, researchers are constantly looking for new ways to compress data into smaller packages.
Elliot Lichtman in Quanta Magazine: “Data Compression Drives the Internet. Here’s How It Works”
9/13/24
Widespread censorship is killing writers’ careers before they begin.
Melanie Jennings co-authors “Scenes from the Literary Blacklist” in Persuasion.