A recent move into central London has proved a pleasant metaphor for the latter-day development of the literary agency which started life as a script and gaming agency, and is now striking a string of big-bucks book deals. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-07-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk has said he may be forced to sell his house in order to stay afloat after an accountant at his literary agency was arrested for embezzling $3.4m (£2.5m) from the company. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-07-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Charlotte Robertson, sales and marketing director and paperback publisher at Faber, is to leave the company to become managing director of a new literary agency in association with Arlington Management. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Literary agent Alice Williams has left David Higham Associates after 10 years to launch her own agency. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-07-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk has described himself as being "close to broke" after an accountant at his literary agency was arrested for embezzling $3.4m (£2.5m) from the company. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Diamond Kahn and Woods (DKW) has appointed Anna Holmwood as foreign rights manager to develop the literary agency’s foreign rights department in-house. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Atlantic imprint Corvus has joined forces with literary agency A M Heath to launch a crime and thriller competition. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-02-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Former Simon & Schuster executive director Kerr MacRae has launched a literary agency and creative productions business, presenting himself as “London publishing’s first literary producer” with two major deals already secured. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Former bookseller Jonathan Ruppin is launching a literary agency after a career spanning Dillons and Foyles. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Portobello Books is launching a new non-fiction prize for unpublished writers, in association with literary agency C+W and retailer Foyles. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-06-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Dome Press, the new publishing imprint of D H H Literary Agency, has signed Claire Dyer’s new novel, The Last Day. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Three independent publishers in Finland have jointly launched the Helsinki Literary Agency to represent their foreign rights The post Three Finnish Publishers Launch New Literary Agency appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2016-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
In a letter sent out this morning, the leaders of the Kuhn Project and Zachary Shuster Harmsworth said that they are combining forces to form Aevitas Creative Management, a literary agency that will have over 20 agents and offices in three cities. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Former Palgrave Macmillan m.d Jaime Marshall is teaming up with A M Heath to launch a new literary agency. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
In France, literary agency L’Autre Agence hopes to change the country's negative attitude toward literary agents with hard work and a list of great authors. The post L’Autre Agence Fights to Change the Image of Literary Agents in France appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-10-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Broo Doherty and Hannah Sheppard have become new directors of the D H H Literary Agency. David Headley, founder of the agency, said he invited the pair to become directors after they helped to grow the business across a variety of genres since joining as agents in 2012. Both accepted and the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-09-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Mark Mills, owner of the Plum Pudding Illustration Agency, and former Bloomsbury editor Fiz Osborne, are setting up a new children’s literary agency. Plum Literary will be based in Reigate, Surrey, and cater for writers for all kinds of children’s books, from picture books to YA. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-08-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Angry Robot has signed a two books from Arthur C Clarke-nominated author Matthew De Abaitua. The publisher bought world English rights in a deal wit Sarah Such of Sarah Such Literary Agency. The first book, If Then, is a novel in two parts, covering both the First World War and an English town... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Curtis Brown is launching an online book group, offering readers the chance to get “a sneak preview of work from some of the agency’s most exciting new and undiscovered authors” just ahead of publication. Applications for readers for the group, the first online reading group to be hosted by a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Melanie Rostock with the K Literary and Film Agency in Barcelona offers best-practice advice for literary agents and tips on promising international markets. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-06-09 00:00:00 UTC ]