The Tuesday Agency, an Iowa City-based speakers agency for authors, has closed. President Trinity Ray tells PL that the agency accepted government loans during the pandemic, which helped to keep the business going and to pay staff, but changes to rules around repayment, as well as other financial factors, made it impossible for the company to continue. He says, “We were keeping up until this second Trump administration. Changes to rules around government loan repayments, the decimation of the National Endowment for the Arts and attacks on universities have made it impossible for us to continue on in the same […]
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Folio Buys Greenhouse Literary
Folio Literary Management has acquired The Greenhouse Literary Agency from Coolabi Group. Greenhouse staff, full client list, and backlist will move to Folio. Greenhouse director Chelsea Eberly will become vice president and will join with her associate, Huyen Vu. “We’re so excited to welcome Chelsea, Huyen, and Greenhouse’s wonderful community of children’s authors and illustrators to Folio Jr,” Folio partner Emily van Beek said in a release. “Greenhouse has built an extraordinary legacy grounded in care, collaboration, and creative excellence, and we’re honored to carry that work forward while offering even more support and opportunity for these creators as part […]
David Higham Associates Acquires The Bent Agency UK
David Higham Associates has acquired The Bent Agency UK Ltd. Molly Ker Hawn joins DHA as a director. Also moving over are rights manager Emma Lagarde, agent Martha Perotto-Wills, and assistant Aminah Amjad are also joining. Ker Hawn launched the UK arm of the Bent Agency in 2012. Children’s agent and director Caroline Walsh is retiring from DHA after nearly 30 years at the agency, and Isobel Boston has also been appointed children’s book agent. Most recently, she was commissioning editor at Walker Books. She will also take on responsibility for some of David Higham’s children’s literary estates. DHA managing […]
Harding Acquires Curtis Brown From the Knowltons
Longtime children’s book agent Elizabeth Harding has acquired Curtis Brown from Tim Knowlton and Ginger Knowlton. Tim Knowlton will “step away from full-time work… sometime soon” to serve as chairman emeritus “to help with the transition.” Ginger Knowlton will remain with the agency and continue to represent her authors. Tim Knowlton says in the announcement, “When Elizabeth first approached us about taking over the company, I nearly slapped myself in the head. It was a moment of clarity–Elizabeth’s vision and expertise make her the ideal choice, and I know Curtis Brown will thrive with her at the helm.” PL took […]
Obituary: Bruce Westwood
Founder of Westwood Creative Artists Bruce Westwood, 84, died peacefully at home on February 28. Originally a venture capitalist, he paired with Sterling Lord to create Sterling Lord Canada, and then created WCA in 1995 following the acquisition of McKnight Gosewich Associates and the Lucinda Vardey Agency. The agency notes that, “Bruce’s foundational belief was to build from within, and he was so pleased that the new owners of the agency came up through its ranks. If you’d like to honor Bruce’s memory and legacy, we can think of no more appropriate way than to raise a glass of rosé […]
Agency News: Einstein Joins Dunow, Carlson & Lerner
As of January 1, 2025, Susanna Einstein will join Dunow, Carlson & Lerner as an agent, as will her colleague Susan Graham. Einstein has run Einstein Literary Management since 2015. (Prior to that, she was a partner in Einstein Thompson Agency, which was the successor to LJK Literary Management.) Einstein says in the announcement: “I’ve loved building my company over the past decade, but with the ongoing changes in publishing, and the isolation of our post-pandemic work-life, I’m more than ready for the collegiality of a larger group. I’ve known Jen, Henry, and Betsy for many years and have long […]