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A VERY BIG THANK YOU TO THE AGENTS AND EDITORS WHO SPENT TIME AT THE 2010
CONFERENCE IN LANCASTER. WE ENJOYED YOUR COMPANY AND WERE DELIGHTED TO HAVE YOU HEAR PITCHES AND TEACH CLASSES.
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To date, eight agents and editors will be appearing at the conference to hear pitches and lead classes. Browse through them all here, or go back to Speakers to look them up individually. Update: As of 3/15, Miriam Kriss will be unable to join us. Please read about her replacement, Emmanuelle Alspaugh, below.
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Agents
 EMMANUELLE ALSPAUGH
Emmanuelle Alspaugh joined
Judith Ehrlich Literary in August 2008. Previously she was an agent at Wendy
Sherman Associates and an editor at Fodor's, the travel division of Random
House. She represents and is actively seeking high-concept
women’s fiction, romance, historical fiction, urban fantasy, thrillers with a
female protagonist, young adult fiction, and select memoir, narrative
nonfiction, and how-to projects.
Her clients include Danielle
Younge-Ullman (Falling Under), RITA
nominee Alissa Johnson (Tempting Fate),
Jenny Brown (Lord Lightning),
Marcella Burnard (Enemy Within),
Christina Phillips (Forbidden),
Adrienne Kane (Cooking and Screaming),
and Andrea Richesin (Because I Love Her).
Emmanuelle was born in France and
grew up in Eugene, Oregon, before settling in New York City to work in
publishing. She enjoys developing long-term relationships with her clients,
helping them to build strong and lasting literary careers.
JENNIFER JACKSON
In grade school, Jennifer
read through the entire fiction
section of the school
library. She repeated this feat when she moved
to the high school
building, which had a much larger selection.
Joining the Donald Maass
Literary Agency in 1993 gave her the
opportunity to continue to
get her reading fix on a regular basis.
Growing up reading science
fiction and fantasy led naturally to a
concentration in that
genre, which she continues to champion. She went
on to pioneer the expansion
of the agency into the areas of romance
and women's fiction, and is
developing her list in the mystery and
suspense genres, as well as
YA fiction. Her current roster includes
New York Times best-selling
fantasy writer Jim Butcher, Hugo Award
winning science fiction
author Elizabeth Bear, USA Today best-selling
author Anne Bishop,
critically acclaimed mystery writer Chris Knopf,
and RITA Award Winner
Shelley Bates.
She believes in a hands-on
approach with a focus on career planning
and editorial support. Her
40+ clients don't leave her much time to
spare, but she enjoys
cooking and ectophilic music in small concert
venues. She maintains a
website at http://www.jenniferjackson.org/
and blogs at http://arcaedia.livejournal.com/
JANET REID
Janet
Reid specializes in compelling fiction,
particularly crime fiction; and narrative non-fiction. She's always on the
lookout for fabulous projects. Her publishing
background includes fifteen years in book publicity with clients both famous
and infamous. In her spare hours she drinks scotch and stalks Jack
Reacher.
She is actively looking for projects that show
mastery of craft and originality. Recent sales include Even by Andrew Grant (Minotaur); The Breach by Patrick Lee (Harper:
2010); Chasing Smoke by Bill
Cameron (Bleak House); All Roads Lead Me
Back to You by Kennedy Foster (Pocket); The
Eternal Prison by Jeff Somers (Orbit); First
Contact by Evan Mandery (Harper: 2010); Siesta Lane by Amy Minato (Skyhorse); Declarations of a Dinosaur by Dr. Lucy Hornstein (Kaplan); The Ephailtes Affair by Gary Corby
(Minotaur; 2010); Numb by Sean
Ferrell (Harper: 2010); Brains by
Robin Becker (Harper: 2010) The Little
Book of Curses and Maledictions for Everyday Use by DawnRae Downton
(Skyhorse).
Ms. Reid is a member of the literary agents
professional association AAR, as well as a past board member of the NYC chapter
of the Women’s National Book Association. She's an associate member of
Mystery Writers of America and International Thriller Writers.
She
keeps a blog with information about clients, answering questions about
publishing and query letters, and other
things that strike her interest at jetreidliterary.blogspot.com.
Further information for new authors is also available at
jetreidlitery.com
JENNY BENT
For the past 15 years,
Jenny has made a practice of making bestsellers—either by spotting new talent
or developing careers for multi-published authors. Her list includes commercial
fiction and nonfiction, literary fiction and memoir. She earned her degree from
Cambridge University in England. After graduation from Cambridge University,
she worked in magazines, bookselling, and agenting, most recently at Trident
Media Group. She founded The Bent Agency earlier this year. Jenny is not looking for the
following: science fiction, poetry, picture books, textbooks/academic books,
serious history or biography political science/policy, business, reference, or
sports.
Jenny sells books like New York
Times bestselling author John Kasich’s upcoming EVERY OTHER MONDAY, about his
twenty years in a bible study group; the upcoming WHOM NOT TO MARRY by Father
Pat Connor, an 80-year-old Catholic priest featured in a recent Maureen O’Dowd column;
the #1 New York Times best seller THE RED HAT SOCIETY; the New York Times
bestseller LOST AND FOUND, a book about loss and grief and how our pets can
help us to heal; and humor writing including the New York Times bestseller
IDIOT GIRLS ACTION ADVENTURE CLUB by Laurie Notaro and the many New York Times
bestsellers by Jill Conner Browne of Sweet Potato Queen fame. And among many
other titles for this author, she sold the New York Times bestseller A TREASURY
OF GREAT AMERICAN SCANDALS by Michael Farquhar which links history to humor in
a tradition of great storytelling. In the realm of commercial fiction, she
represents many New York Times bestselling novelists including Lynsay Sands,
Julia London, Sandra Hill and USA Today bestsellers Kathy Caskie and Janelle
Denison.
 ALEX GLASS
Alex came to Trident as
chairman and founder Robert Gottlieb's assistant in 2001 and was promoted to
literary agent shortly thereafter. He has a BA in political science from Johns
Hopkins and an MFA in creative writing from American University, and has worked
in the literature program at the National Endowment for the Arts and in the
marketing department of the Putnam Berkley Publishing Group. Alex's books have
been sold to the movies, television, and to foreign publishers around the
world. He is currently looking for debut
literary fiction, crime fiction and literary thrillers, middle grade and young
adult fiction, and pop culture, humor, and narrative nonfiction.
His
diverse list of clients writing in fiction and nonfiction for both adults and
children includes national best selling novelist Chad Kultgen (THE AVERAGE
AMERICAN MALE), international best selling author Matt Bondurant (THE THIRD
TRANSLATION and THE WETTEST COUNTY IN THE WORLD), Edgar Award-winning
children’s author Katherine Marsh (THE NIGHT TOURIST), New York Times best
selling novelist and memoirist Da Chen, NFL legend Mark Bavaro (ROUGH AND
TUMBLE), the estate of Newbery Award-winning children’s author and illustrator
Ellen Raskin (THE WESTING GAME), High Times Magazine (THE OFFICIAL HIGH TIMES
POTSMOKERS HANDBOOK), novelist and poet Maggie Estep (DIARY OF AN EMOTIONAL
IDIOT, ALICE FANTASTIC), playwright and children’s novelist David Ives, and
middle grade novelist Courtney Sheinmel. New books he’s excited about for 2010
include Columbia MFA grad and Murdaland founder
Cortright McMeel’s first novel, SHORT (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press),
TWINS author Marcy Dermansky’s second novel, BAD MARIE (HarperPerennial), and
crime novelist Dennis Tafoya’s THE WOLVES IN FAIRMOUNT PARK (Minotaur Books/St.
Martin’s).
 MIRIAM KRISS
Miriam joined the Irene Goodman Literary Agency just as she
was finishing her master's degree in Fine Arts at New York University in early
2004. She focuses on commercial fiction and represents everything from
hardcover historical mysteries to all subgenres of romance, from young adult
fiction to kick ass urban fantasies, and everything in between. If it's fun to
read, she probably represents it. She doesn't look for specific stories,
focusing instead on finding a voice she can fall in love with and champion.
This strategy of taking on only clients she's passionate about has lead to
six-figure deals for first-time authors and numerous clients’ appearances on
the USA Today and New York Times bestseller lists.
Editors
BARBARA LALICKI
Senior Vice President and Editorial Director of
HarperCollins Children. She is the editor of James Rollins’ new series for
independent readers and Beverly Cleary’s editor.
DAVID POMERICO
David is an Assistant Editor at
Del Rey Spectra where he focuses primarily on traditional fantasy, dark
fantasy, urban and contemporary fantasy, dystopian literature, near-future SF
thrillers, and quirky literary fiction, as well as some nonfiction (humor and
sports). He has been at Random House for three years, starting in the
Associates Program with Bantam Dell before becoming an Editorial Assistant at
Spectra. Since then, he’s worked with Alan Cambpell on The God of Clocks, David J. Williams on The Burning Skies and The
Machinery of Light, Greg van Eekhout on Norse
Code, C.L. Anderson on Bitter Angels,
Felix Gilman on Gears of the City, Darin Bradley on the forthcoming Noise, and Ari Marmell’s The Conqueror’s Shadow. He also
works in the Del Rey Star Wars program. A graduate of Binghamton
University, he holds Masters Degrees from Washington University in St. Louis
and NYU. If you’re really bored at work, you can follow him on Twitter at
@bantamspectra.
LEIS PEDERSON
Leis Pederson is currently an Associate Editor at the Berkley Publishing Group. She acquires commercial fiction, including romance, erotic romance, urban fantasy, women’s fiction, mysteries, thrillers and general fiction. Forthcoming titles include MISTRESS BY MISTAKE by Susan Gee Heino, AND FALLING, FLY by Skyler White, DON’T KILL THE MESSENGER by Eileen Rendahl, THE SILVER BEAR by Derek Haas and TOWN IN A BLUEBERRY JAM by B. B. Haywood.
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