Kevin Ahearn , Editor, VIVISPHERE , vivisphere.com

Britta Steiner Alexander, Literary Agent, The Ned Leavitt Agency, www.nedleavittagency.com, Britta Steiner Alexander joined the Ned Leavitt Agency in April 2002. A graduate of the Vermont College MFA in Writing program, Britta is a member of the Women's National Book Association, a contributing editor for Hunger Mountain and writes a bi-monthly Q&A column for the online newsletter Markets For Writers. She takes great pleasure in plucking her favorite books off the shelf simply to re-experience their first lines.

Sharif Ali, Agent, Aimee Entertainment Agency was founded in 1962 as a theatrical agency.  Five years ago a literary department was opened.  We have sold a manuscript to network and have had several screenplays optioned.  One will go into production at the end of this year.  We are always looking for innovative works. 

Kathryn Attalla, Author, www.hvrwa.com, I have published 10 novels to date.
My larest, "Royal Blue" is scheduled for release in Feb 2006.

Kristen Auclair, Agent, The Graybill & English Literary Agency, www.graybillandenglish.com, Kristen Auclair has worked in the book publishing industry for more than a decade--first as an editor for companies such as HarperCollins, and for the past five years as an agent, most recently with Graybill & English. Her interests include narrative nonfiction, health, parenting, and literary fiction.

Audra Barrett, Agent, Barrett Books, www.barrettbooksagency.com, Selecting titles that entertain, inform, challenge or inspire.

Daniel Bial, Agent, Daniel Bial Literary Agency, www.danielbialagency.com, I've been an editor for 14 years and a literary agent for 13 1/2. I'm also a book doctor; the website I've listed is for my book doctoring biz only.

Sandra Bond, Agent, Bond Literary Agency, Everyone should read YOU POOR MONSTER, out June 3rd from MacAdam/Cage, a Borders Original Voices book for June and a Barnes and Noble Discover Great Writers book for the fall.

Katherine Boyle, Agent, Veritas Literary Agency, www.veritasliterary.com, I've always been smitten with great first lines. One of my clients, Frieda Arkin, dreamed hers!

 

Mark Bredt, Editor, Writers Literary & Publishing Services, www.writersliterary.com, Journalist, editor, author, agent, publisher over a 35 year career. Now providing a quality editing experience for book authors and publishers on the Internet at WritersLiterary.com

 

Kimberley Cameron, Literary Agent, REECE HALSEY NORTH, www.kimberleycameron.com, Favorite thing - to discover new voices and get them published!

Elise Capron, Assistant and Associate Agent, Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency. Elise Capron works for the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency, an agency known for guiding the careers of many best-selling and award winning authors including Amy Tan, Maxine Hong Kingston, Luis Urrea, Chalmers Johnson, Diane Mott Davidson, and Janell Cannon. She is Sandra Dijkstra's assistant, handles first serial sales, and represents her own authors.

Tony Cowell, Author, Tony Cowell was on the judging panel of LitIdol held at the London Book Fair. He is the co-author of "I Don't Mean to Be Rude...but." The biography of his brother Simon. He is the prsenter of the forthcoming book show for ITV called "Between the Covers."

 

Susan Crandall, Author, www.susancrandall.net, Author of four published novels with two more in the works. Published by Warner Books, New York. Winner of RITA for Best First Novel, Golden Quill for Best First Novel, National Readers Choice Award for Best First Novel and Best Mainstream.

Leslie Daniels, agent, The Joy Harris Literary Agency, Inc., Leslie Daniels has been in publishing for nearly two decades. She is also a writer and occasionally teaches writing. Her short stories have appeared in various literary magazines, most recently Ploughshares. She is also the current fiction editor for The Green Mountain Review.

 

Victoria Dark, Author, contemoporary and historical fiction, victoriadark.bravehost.com, Victoria Dark is the author of several contemporary and historical romance paperbacks, as well as shorter fiction featured in such renowned publications as Alfred Hitchcock‚s Mystery Magazine. Though she had taken a couple of years off from her own writing due to the demands of her job as Women‚s Fiction Editor at ArcheBooks, Inc., a hardcover house, she‚s delighted to have a new novel contracted for publication. DANGEROUS TO LOVE, a swash-buckling Regency suspense romance will be released sometime within the next year.

 

Katherine Deauxville, Author, www.maggiedavis.com, Maggie Davis/Katherine Deauxville's current book is STAGE DOOR CANTEEN, and she is working now on a novel of suspense about a fashionista who inherits a castle in Scotland.   Her CBS Sunday Night Movie (1994) A CHRISTMAS ROMANCE, starring Olivia Newton-John continues to be shown in syndication in the US and around the world, and on Lifetime TV at the holidays.

 

Jennifer DeChiara, Agent, The Jennifer DeChiara Literary Agency, www.jdlit.com, We represent children's literature (picture books, middle-grade, young adult) and adult fiction and non-fiction in a wide variety of genres. We have a foreign sales director at the agency, foreign agents in every country in the world, and film/TV agents in New York City and Hollywood. We are especially open to previously unpublished writers, the "underdogs" of the writing world, and we love making dreams come true.

 

Carola Dunn, Author, www.geocities.com/CarolaDunn/, I write mysteries set in England in the 1920s, the Daisy Dalrymple series. 14 have been published by St. Martin's Press and Kensington, and now appearing as audio-books. Several have been IMBA bestsellers. I have also written 32 Regency novels and a number of novellas, published by Warner, Walker, Kensington and Harlequin. Many of my books have been translated into German, French, Spanish, and numerous other languages.

Barbara Ellis, Agent, Scribes Editorial & Literary Agency, www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/Scribes, We are currently especially on the lookout for: smart, literary chick lit; strong women's fiction with compelling and complex female characters; sharp, commercial narrative nonfiction, including "How to" titles; cutting-edge business titles; sophisticated quality thrillers (particularly medical, legal & financial categories) and character-driven mysteries; commercial titles on popular culture; and historical (including contemporary Southern) fiction. *Please, no titles involving terrorist plots, unless you have a very strong platform to write on such.

 

Rita Clay Estrada, Author, has written 41 books. She has won several Awards, including Barnes & Noble Best Overall Sales of the Year for Catagory Romance. She organized and was first President of Romance Writers of America (RWA). The Rita Award for best published books of the year for RWA is named in her honor.

Taryn Fagerness, Subrights Manager, Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency, Taryn Fagerness works for the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency, an agency known for guiding the careers of many best-selling and award winning authors including Amy Tan, Maxine Hong Kingston, Luis Urrea, Chalmers Johnson, Diane Mott Davidson, and Janell Cannon. She is the subrights manager handling foreign rights, film, audio and merchandising rights

 

Elizabeth Fisher, Rights Coordinator, Editorial Assistant, Levine Greenberg Literary Agency, www.levinegreenberg.com, After spending her childhood, adolescence and college years in the Garden State, Beth set her sights on the Big Apple. Alternating her nights between waitressing at an Irish Pub in NJ and studying at the NYU Publishing Program, she soon began working with The Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency before moving to NYC and joining Simon & Schuster‚s subsidiary rights department. She joined the Levine Greenberg Literary Agency in June 2004 to work with foreign rights and begin building her own interests. A chronic sufferer of wanderlust and daydreams, Beth has been drawn to living out a myriad of lives. She holds degrees from Fairleigh Dickinson University in English Literature, Theater Arts, and Women‚s Studies. She has worked in a Great Swamp, lived in an English abbey, and climbed a volcano in Ecquador during a blizzard at 3am˜all with a book forever in her hand. Beth cherishes stories of adventure, discovery and human journey. Memoirs, multicultural perspectives, young adult, narrative/creative nonfiction, travel writing and literary fiction are her favorites, though she‚ll read anything that will transport her to another place, another time, or another life when she must stay put.

Debra S Fishpaw, Agent, Debra Fishpaw Agency.com, www.debrafishpawagency.com, Debra Fishpaw Agency is a small personalized literary agency representing creative, talented and passionate writers who participate in their success. Debra Fishpaw has more than 10 years of combined experience in the industry as a publisher, editor, writer and business manager supported by 25 years in corporate sales management. Debra Fishpaw Agency accepts most Fiction and Non-Fiction manuscripts, Short Story Collections, Poetry, Children‚s Series but is probably not the right agency to market manuscripts that contain extraordinary violence, unnecessary profanity, or gratuitous sexuality. Debra Fishpaw Agency represents client‚s work in the U. S., its territories, Canada and Great Britain; in non-domestic markets including secondary rights such as film, TV, recording, or other dramatic media. We accept manuscripts from both published and new writers. Submission guidelines are available by mail at Debra Fishpaw Agency, Attn: Submission Guidelines, PO Box 66, Marlton, New Jersey.

 

Marcia King-Gamble, Author, www.lovemarcia.com, Author of romance and mainstream fiction. Please look out for my July release, A Taste of Paradise, the second book in the Ports of Call Series.

Stacy Glenn, Manager, Evatopia, www.evatopia.com, Evatopia is dedicated to helping first-time screenwriters develop and market their scripts. Every staff member has a degree in either film, journalism or english. We have all worked as writers, editors and publicists, making us strong advocates for today's screenwriters.

 

Diane M. Goettel, Author/Editor, adirondackreview.homestead.com, Diane is a graduate of the Sarah Lawrence College Writing department. She also studied Literature and Eastern Philosophy at Oxford University. Her short fiction has been published in Apollo's Lyre, The Lily Literary Review, 42 Opus, Blaze Ink, and Lichen. She is the Assistant Fiction Editor of The Adirondack Review. Diane lives in Brooklyn and works in the Garment District in Manhattan.

 

Jennifer Greene, Author, www.jennifergreene.com, I've written for 25 years in the women's fiction area--somewhere in the realm of 75 books, for four different publishers and a range of lines and imprints. I'm a member of RWA and Ninc--was also a board member of RWA--and have often been involved in literary programs, working with kids and students, judging contests, and in general trying to support reading and writers--something I don\'t feel our educational system addresses well. When I first started writing, no one encouraged me--everyone said I was foolish to think I could make a living writing. It's been the best (and hardest) work I've ever done...and by far the most rewarding.

 

Daniel Hayes, Author, www.danielhayes.com, Daniel Hayes's acclaimed trio of books about best friends, Tyler and Lymie, has established a tremendous following and earned the author two ALA Best Books for Young Adults commendations. His fourth
book, Flyers, which introduced a new cast of characters, was a nominee for a 1997 Edgar award by the Mystery Writers of America and was named a 1998 Best Book for Young Adults by the American Library Association. He is currently working on a novel called "My Kind of Crazy", a mystery which takes place in Lake Placid, NY.

Gary Heidt, Agent, Imprint, www.imprintagency.com

Julie Hill, Agent, Hill Media, www.publishersmarketplace.com/hillagent, been at this for 10 years, come to it from writing for a living. rep. the famous and the infamous!

Charlotte Hughes, Author, www.charlotte-hughes.com, NY Times Best-Selling Author of 40 novels. Presently writing "Full House" series with Janet Evanovich.

 

Patricia Kay, Author, www.patriciakay.com, USA Today bestselling author of more than 40 novels of romance and women's fiction.

Christopher Keane, Author, keanewords.com, fourteen books published by major New York houses, wrtten motion pictures - Paramount, WB, USA Network - series episodes - taught and lectured at Harvard, NYU Film School, Smithsonian, Emerson College Grad School.

Diana Kirk, Author, Diana Kirk/Diana Hart Books, www.eclectics.com/dianakirk , Award winning author Diana Kirk currently has over ten books in print. Her medical thriller, A Caduceus is for Killing, won the EPPIE 2000 for best thriller novel. Her latest release, Sex, Lies and Rodeo Games, was awarded a 4 star review by Romantic Times Magazine. She currently teaches the prestigious Breaking Into Print Course for Long Ridge Writers Group (see monthly ads in Writer's Digest Magazine)and works as a freelance editor for several publishers.

Jeff Kleinman, agent, The Graybill & English Literary Agency, www.GraybillandEnglish.com

Harvey Klinger, Agent, Harvey Klinger, Inc., www.harveyklinger.com, I've been president of my literary agency since 1977. We feature a broad spectrum of bestselling fiction and non-fiction, but are always on the lookout for that next great new talent!

 

Jenny Lykins, Author, Berkley/Jove, hometown.aol.com/jenlykins/index.html, I've written five novels in time travel fiction, and one paranormal novella in an anthology. I was Waldenbook's best-selling debut author with my first book, and have won two Prism awards, a Holt Medallion, the Booksellers Best Award, and several others. I'm taking a forced hiatus from writing at the moment, due to several family illnesses, but I'm continuing to develop stories so that when the Muse returns I can work that little sucker to death!

 

Carmen Lynne, Producer, Mysole, www.mysocialcircle.biz/talentshowcase.html, Worked for two years as Director of Development for Vincent Ward Films (director of "What Dreams May Come" in 1999). Have written three novels, one of them published in 2000. Support creative writing and am currently producing the Sitcom Trials LA, a forum for new comedy writers and actors.

Kimberly T. Matthews, Agent, Kissed Publications and Literary Agency, www.kissedpublications.com

John McGregor, Literary Agent, JMG Books, I've been in publishing for 15 years during which time I've worked with a wide array of writers crossing many different genres. They include Valerie Boyd, author of "Wrapped in Rainbows", the "definitive" (Washington Post) biography of Zora Neale Hurston, one of the most influential writers of the past 75 years; Phyllis Alesia Perry, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist of "Stigmata" and "A Sunday In June"; James Earl Hardy, groundbreaking author of popular gay fiction and of the forthcoming "A House Is Not A Home" and Danny Simmons, founder and executive producer of "Def Poetry Jam on Broadway" and author of "Three Days as the Crow Flies".

 

Jean Naggar, Literary Agent, & President, , The Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc., website in development: www.jvnla.com, Our agency has been in business as a full-service literary agency since 1978. We represent a broad spectrum of fiction and nonfiction and have several award-winning and bestsellig authors on our client list. We do NOT accept unsolicited manuscripts, but receive queries in the mail, or e-mail. Jean Naggar is a member of PEN, International Womens Forum, Womens Media Group, Poets & Writers, The Author's Guild, and a former President of the AAR (Association of Authors' Representatives). The agency requires no reading fees and all our agents adhere to the AAR Code of Ethics.

Barret Neville, Agent, The Neville Agency, Barret Neville has more than 10 years of experience in the publishing industry. He has worked as an editor, acquiring and developing several bestsellers for major publishing houses such as Penguin USA, St. Martin's Press, and McGraw-Hill; an author, having written books on topics ranging from business leadership to comic book superheroes; and a literary agent. Having experienced the industry from all sides, Barret is uniquely positioned to help his clients develop outstanding book projects, place them with publishers, and continue to offer guidance and support throughout the life of the book.

Kathi Paton, Literary Agent, Kathi J. Paton Literary Agency, We represent fiction and nonfiction and are always looking for well-written manuscripts.

Steven Palukaitis, Author, I am a part-time author living in beautiful Tampa, Florida currently at work finishing up my second novel. Over a dozen of my short stories have appeared in various
print magazines and on-line antholgies over the last two years.

Meredith Phelan, Agent, Interested in writing that suprises and delights -- especially supportive of first time novelists.

Jane Porter, Author, www.janeporter.com

Jonah Wyn Pugh, Editor, Ill Bidone, www.illbidone.com, London-based beat poet and lyricist frontman for Hip Hop collective Ill Bidone, Jonah is a writer and contributing editor for Kilimanjaro Magazine and Knowtheledge.net and is writing a novel.

 

Ben Salmon, Literary Agent, DSM Agency, www.dsmagency.com, I'm actively building a client list and looking for great projects. Please check out the DSM Agency website and my biography to find out more. Cheers!

Frank R. Scatoni, President, Venture Literary, www.ventureliterary.com, With offices in New York and San Diego, Venture Literary is a literary management company that works with writers to sell their material to publishers and studios. We specialize in non-fiction and fiction projects that coincide with our interests˜sports, history, business, philanthropy, pop culture, poker, and any narrative that fascinates us. Our expertise focuses on building long-term careers by honing all the skills that lead to a writer's success. Our clients include several Pulitzer-Prize nominees and Associated Press Sports Editors award winners, politicians, a World Series of Poker champion, a Hall-of-Fame jockey, a Border Patrol agent, professional athletes, film actors and producers, philanthropists, college professors, sports broadcasters, and writers from Newsweek, Forbes, the New York Times, the New York Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the San Jose Mercury News, the Arizona Republic, the Record, ESPN the Magazine, Playboy, the New Orleans Times-Picayune, msnbc.com, espn.com, and salon.com. Venture Literary Entertainment is our production company that actively develops selected projects for film and television.

Emma Sweeney, Literary Agent, Harold Ober Associates

Nikki Van De Car, Agent, Harvey Klinger, Inc.,new agent at Harvey Klinger, Inc.; interested in fantasy, literary fiction, Y/A, chick lit, and pop culture.