As publishers pair up, so will some literary agencies–evidenced in mild form by a Wednesday announcement that Washington, DC-based The Sagalyn Agency has entered into a “strategic alliance” with ICM Partners. Rafe Sagalyn’s agency will be renamed ICM/Sagalyn, and “agents from ICM Partners and Sagalyn will co-sign authors and journalists.” The alliance also gives ICM Partners entree into the Washington world of journalists and politicians, for whom a book deal is sometimes just one piece of their representation needs. Additionally, ICM Partners will represent film, TV and media rights as well as foreign rights to the library of properties already […]
