Answering a summer Friday’s top item of mystery, former Weinstein Books ceo Rob Weisbach explains that his agenting role for Norman Ollestad’s just-announced CRAZY FOR THE STORM was “an opportunity I couldn’t resist to help a fine writer and very decent person” rather than the beginning of a literary agency. “That’s not my next step,” Weisbach said, underscoring, “I’m not choosing a different career path.” Introduced to the author by a mutual friend (former Storyopolis owner Fonda Snyder), Weisbach found the story “superlative, on several levels”–and met with similar reactions from editors and executives at multiple houses. But he’s otherwise […]
