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| Paul Lamb |
Howard Morhaim Literary Agency
30
Pierrepont Street
Brooklyn,
NY 11201
Howard Morhaim established this agency in 1979. Neither he nor
Kate McKean,
the other established agent at this agency are accepting queries. But they’ve recently
taken on two new agents, and like all new agents, they need authors:
Paul Lamb is a graduate of DePauw University in
Greencastle, Indiana, and was a recipient of a POSSE Scholarship. Paul joins
the agency after nearly a decade in Marketing at both Penguin and Random House,
with various imprints. Owing to his professional experience in trade
publishing, Paul has a strong sense of publishers’ needs, and a unique insight
into the representation of authors.
His tastes lie strongly with nonfiction in a wide variety of genres and
subjects, notably business, political science, sociology, memoir, travel
writing, sports, pop culture, and music.
Paul is also interested in crime, mystery, and literary fiction.
Query Paul at: paul@morhaimliterary.com
For fiction, include three sample chapters. For nonfiction, include a full
proposal.
Maria Ribas graduated with English Honors from
the University of Richmond. She began her editorial career at Atria at Simon
and Schuster, then moved to Harlequin Nonfiction and Adams Media, where she was
an associate editor before joining the agency. As a former editor, she has a
keen sense of what editors are really looking for, and she has years of
experience building relationships with authors.
She has always specialized in practical nonfiction and has a firm grasp
of how to assess an author's platform – and how to help authors build that
platform. Maria's interested in cookbooks, self-help, health, diet, home, parenting,
and humor, all from authors with demonstrable platforms.
She's also interested in narrative nonfiction and select memoir, but
she's looking for a story that is absolutely unputdownable.
She is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese and proficient in Italian and will
be working with select foreign authors.
Query Maria at: maria@morhaimliterary.com
For fiction, include three sample chapters. For nonfiction, include a full
proposal.
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| Maria Vicente of P.S. Literary Agency |
Brian Henry will lead “How to
Get Published” workshops in Stouffville on May 24 with literary agent
Carly Watters (see here)
and in Ottawa on June 22 with literary agent Maria Vicente (see here).
And Brian will lead a "Writing for Children
& for Young Adults"workshop on May 31 in Burlington
(see here).
But the best way to get your manuscript ready for publication is
with a weekly course. In the summer, Brian will be offering “Writing your life & other personal
stories” on Tuesday afternoons in Mississauga (see here), “Next Step in Creative Writing” on Wednesday evenings (see here)
and “Intensive
Creative Writing” on
Wednesday afternoons (see here).
See
Brian's full schedule here, including
writing workshops and creative writing courses in Barrie, Brampton, Bolton,
Burlington, Caledon, Cambridge, Georgetown, Guelph, Hamilton, Kingston, London,
Midland, Mississauga, Newmarket, Orillia, Oakville, Ottawa, Peterborough, St.
Catharines, Stouffville, Sudbury, Toronto, Halton, Kitchener-Waterloo, Muskoka,
Peel, Simcoe, York, the GTA, Ontario and beyond.
