UK agent Darley Anderson has hired the former head of children’s at Borders, Becky Stradwick to build the client list of children’s book authors as part of a new offshoot, the Darley Anderson Children’s Literary Agency. Also in the UK, Robert Caskie has joined PFD as an agent. He was at MacFarlane Chard Associates, after six years at Capel & Land. SVP of merchandising for the children’s, multimedia (music and movies), newsstand, calendar and game categories at Borders Linda Jones will retire from the company December 19. She joined the company in 1995 as a merchandising director for Waldenbooks. Those […]
Agency News
People: Agency Moves
Jenny Rappaport has parted ways “amicably” with Lori Perkins after two-and-a-half years and has started her own literary agency, The Rappaport Agency. She will specialize in science fiction and fantasy, as well as YA, and romance. At the L. Perkins Agency, which will continue to focus on erotica and chick lit, horror and pop culture, Marsha Philitas has been promoted to senior literary agent. Separately, at LJK Literary Management, Meg Thompson has been promoted to literary agent. She joined the company in 2006 to do editorial work after working as a research assistant for President Clinton on his autobiography, and […]
Mailer Estate: The Client Wylie Lost
As an Observer article reports, Andrew Wylie at The Wylie Agency represented Norman Mailer while we he was alive but the estate has selected Mailer’s friend and longtime collaborator Larry Schiller to represent all unpublished material, including the trove of “something like 60,000” letters. J. Michael Lennon, who just signed with S&S for an authorized Mailer biography, has been working on one book compilation of Mailer letters “on and off for about five years.” The Observer suggests that publishing rights to that collection might have been ambiguous under Mailer’s contractual relationship with Mailer: “Though at one point last winter there […]
Misunrepresented
Some time last year, before THE WHITE TIGER was published let alone in contention for the Booker Prize, debut author Aravind Adiga served notice that he was parting ways with his agent Jay Mandel at the William Morris Agency. That relatively unremarkable event didn’t become news until earlier this week when the Telegraph’s “Mandrake” misinterpreted that move to declare that Adiga “suddenly parted company” with agency after his big Booker win. And the paper compounded the error by asserting that Cathryn Summerhayes at WMA’s London office “has been widely credited with helping win.” Adiga tells an Indian news service, “The […]
Personnel News: Crowley Switches Agencies; McDermid Picks RCW
Sheila Crowley has left AP Watt to join Curtis Brown UK, and expects most of her authors to move with her. She says “the time was right to move to a bigger agency and one that would embrace the more commercial angle of the authors I represent.”Bookseller Canada’s Anne McDermid & Associates will use British agency Rogers, Coleridge & White to represent rights on behalf of their authors in the British and translation markets.
Molly Friedrich Interviewed
Jofie Ferrari-Adler interviews agent Molly Friedrich as the latest in his series for Poets & Writers Magazine. “I don’t think I can adequately convey the whirlwind of charm, passion, and sheer personal magnetism that Friedrich has spent the last three decades unleashing on the publishing world in service of her clients.” Some excerpts: Q: Did you like doing publicity?A: In my opinion, the two jobs that are the most exhausting in this business are the jobs of the foreign scout and the publicist. The reason is that there is never an end to the job. If you’re a scout, there […]