Mollie Glick has been hired by the Creative Artists Agency (CAA). Deadline reports that she “will be based in New York and will help bolster the agency’s ability to offer ever more resources and opportunities to clients in the publishing space.”
Just prior to this move, Glick spent eight years working at Foundry Literary + Media. According to The Hollywood Reporter, some of the author clients she will bring with her include Jonathan Evison, Carol Rifka Brunt, Sarah McCoy, Al Benjamin, and Patricia Lockwood.
Back in 2013, Glick sat for an interview with The Huffington Post and talked about why she decided to devote her career to the publishing industry: “I’ve always been a bookworm. In fourth grade my teacher told my mother during their parent/teacher conference that I read too much! So I knew I had to find a job where I’d get paid to read. Plus, I actually get to use my English degree!”
The Time it Snowed in Puerto Rico
by Sarah McCoy
Shaye Areheart Books
August 2009
Summary: It is 1961 and Puerto Rico is trapped in a tug-of-war between those who want to stay connected to the United States and those who are fighting for independence. For eleven-year-old Verdita Ortiz-Santiago, the struggle for independence is a battle fought much closer to home.
Verdita has always been safe and secure in her sleepy mountain town, far from the excitement of the capital city of San Juan or the glittering shores of the United States, where her older cousin lives. She will be a señorita soon, which, as her mother reminds her, means that she will be expected to cook and clean, go to Mass every day, choose arroz con pollo over hamburguesas, and give up her love for Elvis. And yet, as much as Verdita longs to escape this seemingly inevitable future and become a blond American bombshell, she is still a young girl who is scared by late-night stories of the
chupacabra, who wishes her mother would still rub her back and sing her a lullaby, and who is both ashamed and exhilarated by her changing body.
Told in luminous prose spanning two years in Verdita’s life, The Time It Snowed in Puerto Rico is much more than a story about getting older. In the tradition of The House on Mango Street and Annie John, it is about the struggle to break free from the people who have raised us, and about the difficulties of leaving behind one’s homeland for places unknown. At times joyous and at times heartbreaking, Verdita’s story is of a young girl discovering her power and finding the strength to decide what sort of woman she’ll become.
The Time it Snowed in Puerto Ricois a lyrical, coming-of-age story that is written with gorgeous prose and so beautifully captures a specific time and place. I was completely absorbed by the author’s descriptions of each detail of her character’s lives. When I learned that this is the author’s first novel, I was amazed! The pacing and flow of the story along with the author’s ability to create such real and authentic characters is something I expect from a seasoned writer. It is a rare thing to read such an authentic voice. The themes and experiences written about in this novel are so universal, the loss of innocence, growing up in a tumultous time, etc., that I can see this book appealing to a very wide audience. It would make a fantastic book club selection. Verdita, the main character, experiences so many poignant moments throughout the novel that are beautifully and subtly captured by Sarah McCoy’s effortless writing. I can’t wait to follow this talented author’s career.