Terra Chalberg and Rachel Sussman start new literary agency, seek authors



Terra Chalberg

 Chalberg & Sussman
115 West 29th St, Third Floor
New York, NY 10001
http://www.chalbergsussman.com/

Terra Chalberg and Rachel Sussman are hanging up their own shingle, launching Chalberg & Sussman. The pair met ten years ago while working at Simon & Schuster and their new agency will represent a wide range of literary and commercial fiction and nonfiction authors. The agency will also sell foreign rights to select titles from independent publishers Milkweed Editions and Ig Publishing.
 
Since leaving S&S, Chalberg has been an agent and foreign rights director at the Susan Golomb agency, while Sussman spent six years as an agent at Zachary Shuster Harmsworth.

Two Kisses for Maddy a memoir
by Matthew Logelin,
one of Rachel Sussman's clients

Chalberg and Sussman will co-mange the agency. Their clients currently include: Dr. Elias Aboujaoude (Virtually You); Margaux Fragoso (Tiger, Tiger); Andrew Porter (The Theory of Light and Matter); Matt Logelin (Two Kisses for Maddy); and Glenn Taylor (The Marrowbone Marble Company). Forthcoming projects include Eugene Cross’s story collection, Fires of Our Choosing (Dzanc), and Sherry and John Petersik’s home makeover guide, Spruce (Artisan).

Query Rachel Sussman, at: rachel@chalbergsussman.com
Query Terra Chalberg at: terra@chalbergsussman.com
 
Brian Henry will be leading "How to Get Published" workshops on September 24 in Guelph with guest Monica Pacheco of the Anne McDermid Agency (see here), on Sunday, Oct 23, in Sudbury (see here) and on December 3 in Oakville with guest Ali McDonald of The Rights Factory literary agency (see here).

See Brian's full schedule here, including writing workshops and creative writing courses in Kingston, Peterborough, Toronto, Mississauga, Brampton, Georgetown, Oakville, Burlington, St. Catharines, Hamilton, Kitchener, Guelph, London, Woodstock, Orangeville, Barrie, Gravenhurst, Sudbury, Muskoka, Peel, Halton, the GTA, Ontario and beyond.