Diane SimmonsSarah Levitt, Rachel Vogel

Liza’s clients include:

• Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. Their GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY (Dial) has been a New York Times Bestseller for two years now and has been sold into 37 countries.
• Robyn Carr, whose Virgin River series (Mira) has sold over two million copies and established Carr as a regular on the USA Today and New York Times bestseller lists.
• Jean Sasson, author of PRINCESS: Life Behind the Veil in Saudia Arabia, the No. 1 international bestseller that inaugurated Sasson as the foremost voice for issues surrounding Middle Eastern women.
• Jesse Kellerman, whose cerebral thrillers have made his latest novel THE EXECUTOR into an international bestseller.
• Cody Mcfadyen, whose latest Smoky Barrett thriller debuted at No. 1 in Germany.
• Tawni O’Dell, the New York Times bestselling author of BACK ROADS and of recently published FRAGILE BEASTS.

Liza is on the board of the AAR (the Association of Author’s Representatives). She belongs to the Author’s Guild, the Mystery Writers of America, International Thriller Writers Inc and The Women’s Media Group.

She specializes in plot-driven literary fiction, thrillers of all sorts, mysteries, women’s fiction and historicals. She’s looking for storytellers with electric voices. In nonfiction, she is drawn to cross-cultural and women’s issues written by experts. She is looking for history, politics, parenting books, memoirs and narrative nonfiction.

She most recently served as the Director of Innovation and Acquisitions for Adams Media, a division of F+W Media, where she headed up the acquisitions team responsible for creating, curating, and producing both fiction and nonfiction for print, ebook, eshort, and direct-to-ebook formats.

Paula is very involved with the mystery community, having served four terms as President of the New England chapter of Mystery Writers of America as well as on the MWA board. (She’s currently VP of that organization.) She’s also served as both co-chair and Agents and Editors chair on the New England Crime Bake committee for seven years and counting. And she’s an active member of Sisters in Crime.

She is seeking: Her specialties include mystery/thriller, SF/fantasy, romance, YA, memoir, humor, pop culture, health & wellness, cooking, self-help, pop psych, New Age, inspirational, technology, science, and writing.

How to contact: Writers can query her at her Talcott Notch email address of pmunier@talcottnotch.net.

In more than twenty years in the publishing industry, Gina has appeared as a speaker at scores of national and regional conferences, leading workshops on a range of subjects ranging from characterization, dialogue and query letters, to the changing publishing market, publicity and new trends in fiction.

Gina is currently looking for mystery, thrillers, suspense, horror, science fiction, romance, mainstream, action-adventure; nonfiction – memoir, true crime, history, career, cookbooks, medicine and fitness, travel, parenting, self-help, humor, test prep and study guides, coffee table books, juvenile fiction and nonfiction for middle-grade and young adult.

Gina is not looking for poetry, short story collections by new writers, novellas, and textbooks.

Her client list includes Ron Franscell, Nancy Holzner, Greg Bergman, Brette Sember, Drew Eric Whitman, Wayne Simmons, Dr. Bruce Cohen, Paula Munier, Dr. Teresa Aubele and Susan Reynolds, Stacy Laabs and Sherri Field, Beth Fehlbaum, Brian Thornton, Kim Lutz, Dr. Karyn Purvis, Dawn-Michelle Baude, Sandra Dark and Dean Hill, Dr. Seth Meyers, Tom Hager, and Scott Deitche.

Her authors at Pocket include everything from New York Times bestsellers to debut novelists.  Prior to working at Pocket, she was an editor for Harlequin’s HQN line.

She began her career in publishing at Bantam Dell, after abandoning the glamorous life of a Ph.D. student (the only job that pays worse than editorial assistant).

For non-fiction, she is looking for biography, cultural history, memoir, science, “ideas” books, and narrative non-fiction.  For fiction, she is looking for imaginative, voice-driven narrative that demands a reaction (that does something) or fiction so well crafted that the doing is done in each sentence (think: Michel Houellebecq, Jamal Mahjoub, Geoff Dyer, and Jennifer Egan).

The Zoë Pagnamenta Agency is a boutique literary agency with a particular focus on literary fiction and serious non-fiction. Their US clients include Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, author of the prize-winning WHEN SKATEBOARDS WILL BE FREE, Tom Vanderbilt, author of NYT bestseller TRAFFIC, Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Wayne Biddle; historians Louis P. Masur and Alice Kessler-Harris; novelists Rosie Dastgir, Alice Mattison, and Dirk Wittenborn; and narrative non-fiction writers Tom Folsom, Brendan I. Koerner, and Andrew Blum.

The agency also works closely with several UK agencies and represents a number of writers in the US and Canada on their behalf, from Hisham Matar and Alan Bennett to Anthony Horowitz, David Almond, Meg Rosoff, Andrew Miller (winner of the 2011 Costa Book of the Year award for PURE) and Edmund de Waal, author of the NYT bestselling family memoir THE HARE WITH AMBER EYES (winner of the 2010 Costa Biography of the Year award and the 2011 Ondaatje Prize).

She loves complex characters, coming-of-age stories, and strong narrators. Sarah graduated from Ithaca College with a degree in Writing and English, and went on to receive her MFA in Creative Writing from The New School.

She is always on the lookout for debut authors and welcomes email submissions at sl@cbltd.com.

She is very interested in acquiring engaging Literary fiction and mysteries / suspense, commercial women’s fiction (romantic suspense, sci-fi, fantasy), and Young Adult (contemporary, sci-fi/fantasy, thriller and horror ). Above all, she is looking for anything with an engaging voice, compelling narrative and authentic characters.

She is unafraid of debut authors. Victoria can be found on twitter and online at Rapid-Progressive.

Priscille grew up loving the rocky coast of Maine, her family, and babies. Now a neonatal intensive care nurse, she has the privilege of caring for infants so small that they fit in her hand. She lives with her husband, three tall teenaged sons, and their Wheaton terrier. Her website is www.priscillesibley.com

For Carrie, extraordinary fiction and non-fiction share the abilty to transport readers to new and exciting places. As a history and mythology buff, she is intrigued by books that introduce her to another culture or time period. She is looking for description and detail that will make her feel like she is inside the story and interest her in a subject she never thought she would want to read about or, conversely, introduce her to startling facts about something or someone she believed she already knew everything about.

Some of Carrie’s favorite books include:

• Kim by Rudyard Kipling
• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
• Force of Nature: The Unlikely Story of Wal-Mart’s Green Revolution by Ed Humes
• The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome by Susan Wise Bauer
• Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff
• Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
• First Comes Marriage: Modern Relationship Advice from the Wisdom of Arranged Marriages by Reva Smith

Carrie is currently seeking non-fiction, narrative non-fiction, general non-fiction, and some biography and memoir. She is looking for authors that have a strong platform, such as a popular blog, published articles, or related professional experience. Topics such as New England architecture, modern Native American culture, the history of colonialism in literature, or different Cinderella variants throughout different time periods and countries would excite her. She also seeks mainstream prescriptive non-fiction, for example she would love to see a book about the benefits of locavore eating, or a completely cutting edge relationship book.

In the fiction arena, she is looking for literary fiction, historical fiction, and mature YA. She would love to see a thriller/mystery about Elizabeth Bathory, otherwise known as “Lady Dracula,” or a novel about a young teacher at a private high school who finds herself attracted to one of her students.

She is not currently interested in romance, science fiction/fantasy, or picture books