Last Wednesday, Watchung Booksellers, Montclair, N.J., hosted a combination party and Writing Matters event for Jenny Milchman, creator of Take Your Child to a Bookstore Day and co-host of the very same Writing Matters series, on the occasion of the publication of her first novel, Cover of Snow (Ballantine). Some 80 people heard the panel talk about "From Conception to Publication: Bringing a Novel Out from a Major House Today." From left: Milchman's editor, Linda Marrow, senior v-p at Ballantine; Milchman; and her agent, Julia Kenny of the Markson Thoma Literary Agency.
