After three years as agent and contracts director of the Donald Maass Literary Agency, Stephen Barbara will join Foundry Literary + Media as a full-time agent on Monday, January 5th. Barbara represents authors for both the children’s and adult markets and is bringing his entire list to Foundry. Also in recent days, in the UK, Harper UK ceo Victoria Barnsley and editor, memoirist and novelist (and Costa award nominee) Diana Athill were both awarded OBE’s on the Queen’s annual honors list, as Terry Pratchett was “flabbergasted” to receive a knighthood. On December 31, prolific mystery writer Donald Westlake, 75, died […]