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MICHAEL NEFF is an agent for AEI Films and Books in Los Angeles and is looking for SF/F, YA/F, mystery/thriller, and upmarket novels, especially those with high-concept film potential. Projects represented include KILLER ON THE WALL, a Facebook murder mystery by Wendy Eckel; and SPEAK NO EVIL, nonfiction by Beatrice Edwards exposing the war against whistleblowers.
LARA PERKINS, Associate Agent, Digital Manager, Andrea Brown Literary Agency (CA)
JODIE REIN called an “uber agent” by the Denver Post, is a successful long-time literary agent who previously held several executive-level editorial positions with Big 6 publishers. A popular speaker, she’s also an author, a consultant, an entrepreneur and a mom. She’s delighted to be here at the SFWC…and we are just as delighted to have her here!
Jody Rein Books
www.jodyreinbooks.com, www.authorplanet.org, and @sharpcrayon.com
RAYHANE SANDERS, Literary Manager at WSK Management, LLC (NY)
KATHARINE SANDS, author of Making the Perfect Pitch, is a literary agent with the Sara Jane Freymann Literary Agency in New York. She represents a wide range of authors: from fiction and faction to non-fiction (popular culture, personal growth, leisure activities) to home arts (lifestyle, cookbooks, home design) to eclectic (travel, humor, spirituality). She handles projects for the literary estate of Normal Wexler, Academy-Award nominated screenwriter for Saturday Night Fever. Katharine has represented Make Up, Don’t Break Up by five-time Oprah guest Dr. Bonnie Eaker Weil; Give Me That Online Religion by Dr. Brenda Brasher; and The Indigo Cookbook by Chef Glenn Chu. Her book reviews appear in The New York Times and Publishers Weekly.
SARA JANE FREYMANN LITERARY AGENCY
Telephone: 212-366-2627
Email: KatharineSands@NYC.rr.com
KEN SHERMAN is president of Ken Sherman and Associates, a Los Angeles-based literary agency. An agent for more than twenty years, Ken represents screen, television and book writers, and also sells film and television rights to books, as well as life rights. A few of Ken’s clients include David Guterson, author of Snow Falling on Cedars, Tawni O’Dell, whose first novel, Back Roads, became an international bestseller and Oprah Book Club selection, Starhawk, considered the best-known witch in the world, Anne Perry, the world’s best-known Victorian murder mystery writer, and the estates of Luis Buñuel, John Hersey, and Simon Wiesenthal.
KenShermanAssociates@gmail.com
NEPHELE TEMPEST joined The Knight Agency in January, 2005, opening the Los Angeles office. She comes from a diverse publishing and finance background, having worked in the editorial department at Simon and Schuster, as a financial advisor, in the marketing and communications departments of several major New York investment firms, and as a freelance writer—all skills that come into play helping her clients develop their careers. She continues to actively build her client list, and is seeking works in the following genres: literary/commercial fiction, women’s fiction, urban fantasy/ paranormal, romantic suspense, contemporary romance, historical fiction, young adult and middle grade fiction.
The Knight Agency
PAMELA van HYLCKAMA VLIEG, Larsen/Pomada Agency (CA)
BECKY VINTER, agent at FinePrint Literary Management (NY)
GORDON WARNOCK is a literary agent who seeks to establish involved, long term working relationships with talented, dedicated authors in such areas as: commercial narrative fiction, YA (no vampires, please), memoir, political, current affairs, health, humor and cookbooks. He’s not looking for: religious fiction, women’s fiction, new age, anthologies children’s, middle grade .
ANDREA HURST LITERARY MANAGEMENT
Agency Website: www.andreahurst.com
Gordon’s page: www.andreahurst.com/literary-management/about/gordon-warnock.
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