One of 2018’s early, and welcome, hits was Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood and Bone, a mainstay New York Times young adult bestseller since late March, and the first in a trilogy, as well as one of our consensus best fiction titles of the year. It’s also the first big breakout for an author initially discovered in one of the increasingly popular online pitching outlets, Pitch Wars, represented by Alexandra Machinist and Hillary Jacobson of ICM. Looking back over the year and ahead to continuing trends, we wondered if Adeyemi’s success is seen as the outlier, in the way in which publishing […]
