Emma in the Night by Wendy Walker, represented by Wendy Sherman Associates |
Wendy Sherman Associates
138 W. 25th St.
Suite 1018
New York, NY 10001
Suite 1018
New York, NY 10001
Wendy Sherman Associates is a full
service agency which partners with major film and television agents in Los
Angeles. They have a proven track record of discovering first time authors as
well as managing the work of those with established careers. They pride
themselves on cultivating long-term relationships with clients as well as with
publishers throughout the world. There are four agents at Wendy Sherman
Associates, all accepting new authors, but your best bets are probably the two
new members of the team:
Nicki
Richesin began her
career at Bloomsbury in London during the exciting days when J.K. Rowling was
first discovered by the publisher. She has worked as a freelance editor for
over fifteen years with many talented writers, as well as publishers such as
Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, Seal Press, and Little, Brown.
She
edited four literary anthologies (The May Queen, Because I Love Her, What I
Would Tell Her, and Crush) featuring essays by bestselling
authors including Jennifer Weiner, Lauren Oliver, David Levithan, Karen Joy
Fowler, Chris Bohjalian, Amy Greene, and Kaui Hart Hemmings.
Nicki is especially interested in
representing literary and upmarket fiction, young adult fiction, narrative
nonfiction, and memoir. She is eager to discover authors writing about somewhat
unconventional protagonists with an imaginative slant on storytelling.
In young adult fiction, Nicki has a
particular fondness for coming-of-age stories that take a cue from classic
literature.
Nicki is drawn to memoir with a
genuine voice that instantly connects with readers and takes them on a journey.
She will always champion a story that investigates the true meaning of life,
love, and identity.
After many years of collaborating with hard-working authors, she enjoys
nothing more than helping them realize their vision and telling everyone all
about it.
Kelli Martin was previously a founding editor of Montlake Romance at
Amazon Publishing and an executive editor at Lake Union. She was
previously a senior editor with Harlequin and also held editorial positions at
HarperCollins and Disney-Hyperion.
Kelli
is looking for romance, women's commercial fiction and book club fiction.
Kelli (occasionally) tweets here.
Query Nicki, Kelli, or any
other agent at Wendy Sherman Associates at: submissions@wsherman.com
Include your last name, title and the name of the agent you’re
querying in the subject line. For fiction, paste the first ten pages of your
manuscript into the email. For nonfiction, include both your query and an
author bio. No attachments unless requested.
Full guidelines here.
Author Kira Vermond |
If you’re interested in getting published, soon or
somewhere down the road, don’t miss upcoming How
to Get Published workshops on Saturday,
Aug 18, in Collingwood with literary agent Paige Sisley (see here) and Saturday,
Nov 17, in Mississauga with literary agent Stephanie Sinclair (see here).
And if you’re interested in Writing for Children & for Young Adults, Brian Henry will lead a mini-conference with Yasemin Uçar, senior
editor at Kids Can Press, children’s author Kira Vermond, and YA author Tanaz
Bhathena, Saturday, Sept 22, in Oakville (see here), a Writing Kid Lit weekly course on Friday afternoons, Oct 5 – Nov 30
in Toronto, and a Writing for
Children & for Young Adults workshop
Saturday, October 12, in Sudbury (see here).
For updated listings of Writing for
Children & for Young adult workshops and for weekly Kid lit classes,
see here (and scroll down).
And this summer, don't miss: the Windsor International Writers Conference, Friday, July 6 – Sunday, July 8, where Brian
will be giving talks on Writing
Point of View and Writing Query Letters that Get a Yes (see here), You can write great
dialogue, Saturday, July 14, in Caledon (see here), and How to Write Great Characters, Saturday, Aug 18, in Guelph (see here).
This summer, there’s
still space in Brian’s introductory weekly class:
Exploring Creative Writing, Wednesday, afternoons, July 4 – Aug 22, in
Burlington. See here.
Come September, there will be a full roster of
courses, Introductory to Intense (Details of all six courses here):
And Intensive
Creative Writing, offered in
three locales:
Tuesday afternoons, Sept 25 – Nov 27 (first
readings emailed Sept 18), in Burlington. See here.
Wednesday evenings Sept 26 – Dec 5 (first readings emailed
Sept 19), in Georgetown. See here.
Friday mornings Sept 28 – Nov 30 (first
readings emailed Sept 21), in Toronto. See here.
See details of all six courses here.
To
reserve a spot in any workshop, retreat, or weekly course, email brianhenry@sympatico.ca
Read reviews of Brian’s courses and
workshops here.
See Brian’s complete current schedule here, including writing
workshops, weekly writing classes, and weekend retreats in Algonquin Park,
Bolton, Barrie, Brampton, Burlington, Caledon, Collingwood, Cambridge,
Georgetown, Guelph, Hamilton, Kingston, Kitchener-Waterloo, London, Midland,
Mississauga, Oakville, Ottawa, Peterborough, St. Catharines, Saint John, NB,
Sudbury, Toronto, Windsor, Woodstock, Halton, Muskoka, Peel, Simcoe, York
Region, the GTA, Ontario and beyond.
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