New literary agent at Fischer-Harbage Agency

Christopher Hermelin

T he Fischer-Harbage Agency, Inc.
540 President Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215
http://www.fischerharbage.com/www/

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At the Fischer Harbage Agency, Christopher Hermelin has been promoted to associate agent, and like any new agent, he needs clients.  Christopher has  an MFA in Creative Writing from the New School. He earned his BA in Creative Writing at UC Santa Cruz. His writing has appeared in the Awl and the Believer, a couple times in small literary journals, and once on the side of a Starbucks cup. Sometimes you can find him typing stories for strangers on The High Line in Manhattan. He currently lives in Brooklyn, tweets here, and has a website here.

He doesn’t say what he’s interested in as an agent and didn’t respond when I emailed and asked. So your guess is as good as mine. ~ Brian

Chaos in Kabul by Gerard de Villiers,
one of Ryan Harbage's clients

The senior editor at Fischer-Harbage is Ryan Harbage, who founded the agency in 2007. He has placed books for seven #1 New York Times bestselling authors, including most recently Edward Klein’s The Amateur, the bestselling political book of 2012. He represents Gérard de Villiers, author of the S.A.S. series, which has sold more than 120 million copies worldwide. Other New York Times bestselling clients include Sam Benjamin, Frank Calabrese Jr., Bill Eppridge, Aliya S. King and Robert Graysmith.

Prior to being recruited to work as an agent, Ryan was an editor at Simon & Schuster where he helped create and launch a new imprint, Simon Spotlight Entertainment (now Gallery Books). He also worked as an editor for Little, Brown & Company as well as The Penguin Group (USA) where he edited books for Plume, Dutton and Viking.

Query Christopher or Ryan at: submissions@fischerharbage.com

Paste the first chapter of your work into the body of the email. No attachments. Full submission guidelines here.

Mathew Magor Webb

Brian Henry will lead "How to Get Published" workshops workshops in Windsor (for my American readers, that's just across the river from Detroit), on Sunday, May 31, with Martha Magor Webb of the Anne McDermid Agency (see here) and in Mississauga on Saturday, June 20, again with Martha Magor Webb (here).  

Brian will also lead a “Writing for Children & for Young Adults” workshop with Anne Shone, Senior Editor at Scholastic Canada, on Saturday, May 2, in Oakville (see here).

For more information or to register, email: brianhenry@sympatico.ca

Other upcoming workshops, include “Secrets of Writing a Page-turner,” Saturday, April 11, in Peterborough (see here), Saturday, May 23, in Barrie (here) and Saturday, June 6, in Georgetown (here), “Writing & Revising” Sunday, April 12, in Ottawa (here),  and “How to Build Your Story,”  Saturday, April 25, in Thessalon (here), Saturday, May 9 in London (here) and Saturday, May 30 in Guelph (here).

Anne Shone

The spring session of Brian’s weekly creative writing courses begins in April See details of all five weekly courses, for beginning to advanced writers, here.

Exploring Creative Writing” will be offered Wednesday evenings in Burlington (see here,) “Writing Personal Stories” on Tuesday afternoons in Mississauga (here), “The Next Step in Creative Writing” on Thursday evenings in Georgetown (here) and “Intensive Creative Writing” on Wednesday afternoons in Burlington (here) and Thursday afternoons in Burlington (here).

Read reviews of Brian’s courses and workshops here.

For more information or to reserve a spot, email: brianhenry@sympatico.ca

See Brian's full schedule here, including writing workshops and creative writing courses in Barrie, Brampton, Bolton, Burlington, Caledon, Cambridge, Collingwood, Georgetown, Guelph, Hamilton, Kingston, London, Midland, Mississauga, Newmarket, Niagara on the Lake, Orillia, Oakville, Ottawa, Peterborough, St. Catharines, Sudbury, Thessalon, Toronto, Windsor, Halton, Kitchener-Waterloo, Muskoka, Peel, Simcoe, York, the GTA, Ontario and beyond.