Aitken Alexander has announced the death of literary agent Brian Stone, who had been suffering from dementia for many years. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-20 10:25:32 UTC ]
Hannah Weatherill, currently a scout at Mira Trenchard Literary Scouting, will join Northbank Talent Management next month as literary agent. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Eugenie Furniss is leaving the agency she founded to join management and production company 42 as a literary agent. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hayley Steed has been promoted to literary agent less than three years after joining the Madeleine Milburn Literary, TV & Film Agency as an assistant. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Julia Silk will join Kingsford Campbell this month from MBA where she has been a literary agent since 2016. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-02-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Indonesia is the country of focus at the London Book Fair this year and recently at Frankfurt - to what extent do you think Indonesian literature is finally having it's moment in the spotlight? I cannot say for certain what these one-off ‘spotlights’ on Indonesian literature would mean for... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2019-02-08 10:06:53 UTC ]
Bent Agency is expanding by hiring Zoë Plant, formerly a senior scout at Daniela Schlingmann Literary Scouting, as a literary agent. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Australian author Kate Morton has won a $500,000 lawsuit against her former literary agent Selwa Anthony. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-12-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Selwa Anthony had sued the bestselling writer, claiming she was entitled to 15% commission on all royalties Internationally bestselling Australian author Kate Morton has fended off a lawsuit by her former literary agent, who instead has to pay the writer more than $500,000.Selwa Anthony sued... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2018-12-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Rachel Mann is joining Jo Unwin and Ella Berthoud as a literary agent at JULA, where she will build a list focusing primarily on children’s fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-11-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Peters Fraser and Dunlop (PFD) has promoted two assistants, Tessa David and Vicky Cornforth, to the role of literary agent and associate agent in the broadcast department respectively. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-10-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Emma Paterson, literary agent at Rogers, Coleridge & White and a Bookseller Rising Star in 2018, is joining Aitken Alexander as an agent in October. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-08-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
A literary agent who doesn’t “believe in contracts” is suing Australian author Kate Morton over allegedly breaching an agreement. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-08-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Literary agent and president of the Association of Authors’ Agents Lizzy Kremer comments on the ALCS survey on author earnings. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-07-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Johanna Castillo is returning to her roots, leaving her editorial job for a post as a literary agent. The v-p and executive editor of Atria will return to the deal-maker's life on June 6, joining Writers House as a senior literary agent. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Giles Milburn tells us all about his role as managing director and literary agent at Madeleine Milburn Literary, TV and Film Agency. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
The late physicist’s editor, Peter Guzzardi, recalls his first meetings with Hawking and how his book became a bestsellerStephen Hawking dies aged 76I first encountered Stephen Hawking on the cover of the New York Times magazine. Inside, its pages told a story we all know today, but at the time... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2018-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
In the wake of online accusations, The Maze Runner author James Dashner has lost representation, as has Thirteen Reasons Why author Jay AsherThe Maze Runner author James Dashner has been dropped by his literary agent after a series of anonymous accusations of sexual harassment were made against... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2018-02-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
The £580,000 Arts Council England funding will support new initiative to find and develop black and minority ethnic, disabled and LGBTQ writersA new literary agency, which aims to discover “the next generation of diverse writers” and “blow open the pipeline” for them, is being launched by the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Charlie Brotherstone, literary agent at Ed Victor Ltd, is opening his own agency. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-11-15 00:00:00 UTC ]