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 […]
Agency News
Personnel, Etc.
Book review editor (and arts writer) at The Tennessean Jonathan Marx e-mailed contacts to let them know he has left the newspaper to take a job as publications manager for the Nashville Symphony. Del Commune Enterprises is now scouting in France for Calmann-Levy and Le Livre du Poche and in Spain for Salamandra Ediciones. As of August 1, they will also scout for Jorge Zahar Editor in Brazil.
UK Agents Compete for Estates
Savvy agents have long known the advantages of representing well-established literary estates and now following the diminution of PFD, the gloves are off in London. The Times says: ” No point wasting one’s time with new authors. They’re unpredictable, demanding. They require lunch. No, what any literary agent worth his salt needs in 2008 is a classic author with form: famous, prolific and deceased within the past 70 years. In recent months, the literary estate – the body of work belonging to a dead author – has suddenly and unexpectedly become big business.” As previously reported, Andrew Wylie took over […]
Appointed
Ian Fleming Publications has appointed Simon Trewin at United Agents, to manage world English literary rights in the Ian Fleming titles and the Young Bond series. Trewin will partner with Zoe Pagnamenta of the Zoe Pagnamenta Agency to represent the properties in the US. Foreign rights will continue to be managed by The Buckman Agency, and Sebastian Faulks’ Devil May Care and Kate Westbrook’s MoneyPenny Diaries remain with Aitken Alexander Associates.