17th Annual SCWW Writer's Workshop Conference

Agents

Andrea Brown is the President of the Andrea Brown Literary Agency, Inc. Founded in New York City in 1981.  It was the first literary agency to represent both children’s book authors and illustrators, and the agency now represents fiction, non-fiction and children’s book authors with five literary agents.  
Mary Beth Chappell joined Zachary Shuster Harmsworth in 2004 and is based in the agency's Boston office. She enjoys working with a range of new and established authors. Her fiction interests include historical fiction, inspirational fiction, Christian fiction, upmarket women's fiction, Southern fiction, cozy mysteries and young adult fiction. Her nonfiction interests include narrative nonfiction, self-help, pop-psychology, international affairs, public policy, human rights, Southern culture, Middle-America, food & cookbooks, travel, religion, and women's issues. http://www.zshliterary.com/marybethchappell.html
 

Lucienne Diver is a long time book addict who went to work for Spectrum Literary Agency fourteen years ago to feed her habit.  She now represents over forty authors of commercial fiction, primarily in the areas of romance, fantasy, mystery/suspense and erotica. 
www.spectrumliteraryagency.com

 

Beth Jusino is a literary agent with Alive Communications, which represents best-selling inspirational authors Karen Kingsbury, Eugene Peterson, Rebecca St. James, Franklin Graham, and dozens more. Ten books represented by Alive Communications have reached the #1 spot on the New York Times bestseller list, and approximately 100 of our titles appear each year on national bestseller lists.
www.alivecommunications.com
 
Emily Sylvan Kim is the founder of Prospect Agency. Her focus is on maintaining a thriving literary agency that not only provides a high level of access and a sense of community but also savvy business acumen and technology to facilitate the process of turning great ideas into books on the shelf. She is fully committed and informed about authors' rights and has developed strong working relationships with first-rate publishers.
http://www.prospectagency.com/zoo.html
 
Jud Laghi has worked as a literary agent since 2002, beginning at ICM where he represented several bestsellers including The Hipster Handbook by Robert Lanham, Found: The Best Lost, Tossed and Forgotten Items From Around the World by Davy Rothbart, and Why Do Men Have Nipples? by Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg. Jud looks for authors who are like-minded in thinking ahead of the curve and taking risks, be it through fiction or non-fiction.   www.ljkliterary.com


 

 

 

 

Cameron McClure joined the Donald Maass Literary Agency in 2004, and handles the agency's foreign and film rights.   She represents mostly fiction, and is especially looking for literary mysteries.  She's also interested in seeing literary fiction, thrillers and suspense, urban fantasy, and projects with multi-cultural, international, environmental, and GBLT themes.

 

 

 


 

Jacky Sach cofounded BookEnds with Jessica Faust in 1999 after a fifteen-year career at Putnam Berkley (now Penguin USA). Her expertise and interests include mysteries of all varieties, women's fiction, suspense novels, self-help, spirituality, alternative and mainstream health, business and career, addiction, chick-lit nonfiction, and other nonfiction with a strong author platform.
http://www.bookends-inc.com/ 
Kimberly Whalen came to Trident Media Group from the Jane Rotrosen Agency, where she was a literary agent and represented domestically several writers of both fiction and non-fiction. Her interests are diverse and include commercial fiction (thrillers, mysteries, etc.) and commercial nonfiction, literary fiction, women's fiction, and pop culture.

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