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| Sister Dear by Hannah Mary McKinnon represented by Transatlantiic |
Transatlantic
Agency
2
Bloor Street East
Suite
3500
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Transatlantic Agency offers a full spectrum of career representation
to authors (Adult, Children’s & YA, and illustrators) and storytellers
(Speakers, Industry leaders & Influencers) across all genres and formats
for book, content development, speaking and TV & Film. Transatlantic
has 14 agents located
across North America. Four of them are open to queries:
Carolyn
Forde would love to see literary fiction (especially
speculative and horror), commercial fiction, narrative nonfiction by experts in
the field and is open-minded to a broad range of topics and styles – as long as
it engages her.
There
are a few things she’s not keen on – medical/disease related memoirs,
police procedurals, climate thrillers, military or CIA fiction, cozy mysteries,
books about film and tv behind the scenes.
Previous
to joining Transatlantic Agency as Senior Agent, Carolyn was a literary agent
and International Rights Director at Westwood Creative Artists for 14 years.
For the last decade Carolyn has traveled to both the
London Book Fair and the Frankfurt Book Fair and New York regularly and will
continue to do so. She represents Hannah Mary McKinnon and Karma Brown, who
many followers of Quick Brown Fox will be familiar with, and she’s represented
authors who have won or been nominated for just about every award going. Carolyn is also an active member of
the literary community, having been a speaker or mentor at many conferences.
She has lived and worked in Japan, Mexico and the
Czech Republic and is a dual citizen of Canada and the UK.
Include the first 20 pages for
consideration, within the body of your query – attachments will not be opened
(double spaced and 12 pt font).
Fiona
Kenshole specializes in children’s and YA, from
picture books to older teenage. “I love the midwifery of being an agent,” she says,
“from getting your debut published to doing the movie deal.”
Fiona is hungry
for middle grade fiction, especially funny stories, real children in magical
worlds, and any kind of animal story. She’s passionate about the natural world
and saving the planet and looks for stories that chime with those beliefs. She
would especially love to find more native American writers. Yes, please, to a
21st century 101 Dalmatians or Charlotte’s Web.
Fiona
adores feel-good YA, especially romcoms. And think of her for clever high
school politics.
She likes
quirky contemporary, humor; unreliable narrators; wilderness adventures;
immigrant stories; sister stories, practical feminism, and ghost stories.
She’d love a story about the sheer joy of escaping on your bike or on skis.
For
picture books, she is currently only taking on projects with
author/illustrators, especially those who share her animation background. She’s
a sucker for clever British-style humor.
“I love stories that
surprise me,” says Fiona. “If I can predict the ending in the opening pages,
it’s probably not for me. Most of all I love compelling writing that makes me
laugh out loud, or makes me love the characters so much that I like them more
than the real people around me!”
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| A Wolf Called Wander by Rosanne Parry represented by Transatlantic |
Fiona is not taking on rhyming picture
books, picture book texts, poetry, screenplays or faith-based stories, and she
doesn’t usually like sad endings.
Fiona
came to agenting after nearly a decade as VP at Laika Studios, creating a
development slate of new projects for the Academy Award winning animation
studio. She worked with major directors and screenwriters, acquiring and
adapting children’s books including the Oscar-nominated THE BOXTROLLS and
CORALINE.
Previously
she was a senior publisher in the UK where she published authors including
Michael Bond (Paddington
Bear), P.L Travers (Mary Poppins) and the Laureate Michael Morpurgo (War Horse) and was UK editor for Beverley Cleary,
Lois Lowry, Bruce Coville, Gary Paulsen and Cynthia Voigt.
Fiona enjoys being on faculty as a conference guest
speaker throughout the US, from Alaska to San Diego, and in Europe. She has
taught publishing at Oxford Brookes University and Portland State, organized
events for the Oxford Literary Festival and is herself a published author.
She joined Transatlantic in 2013. Her clients’ recent
successes include Vicki Grant’s YA romcom, 36 QUESTIONS THAT CHANGED MY MIND ABOUT YOU (Running
Press), which sold in 22 languages and is optioned for TV, and Rosanne Parry’s
MG A WOLF CALLED WANDER (Andersen
Press/Greenwillow) which spent 26 weeks in the NYT bestseller list and sold in
11 languages.
If you have a personal referral from one
of her clients or have attended a conference or workshop with here, mention
that in your submission.
Stephanie Sinclair is actively looking
for both fiction and nonfiction.
She’s seeking both literary and upmarket
fiction and will consider literary thriller and suspense, and YA crossover.
She does not want historical, commercial
or romance fiction.
In nonfiction, she’s seeking narrative
nonfiction, memoir, investigative journalism and true crime.
Stephanie looks for fiction and
nonfiction work that provokes big conversations and strives for social
betterment.
Stephanie is a Senior Agent with
Transatlantic Agency and represents writers of award-winning fiction and
nonfiction. In addition to managing her own client list, she oversees
international rights sales for clients represented by Samantha Haywood and Page
Two Strategies.
Stephanie is a graduate of the
publishing program at Ryerson University and the creative writing program at
the Humber School for Writers. For many years, authors, journalists and theatre
writers have benefited from Stephanie’s uniquely attuned and effective advice
in her work as an award-nominated freelance editor. Stephanie is a member of
the Professional Association of Canadian Literary Agents.
Query Stephanie at: stephanie@transatlanticagency.com
Submissions
should include a short biography, past publishing credits, and a 20-page
writing sample in Word or PDF format. Replies will be sent only for submissions
being actively considered.
Sandra
Bishop represents notable nonfiction and award-winning
fiction authors who write across a variety of categories.
Sandra is currently only
interested in considering commercially viable non-fiction submissions on pop-culture, celebrity
memoir, cooking, hobbies, travel, lifestyle, parenting, and relationships from
authors with an established platform, online or media presence, or recognized
expertise.
Sandra is not
taking on new fiction authors, but she
will consider representation of established romance authors seeking new
representation. She will also consider complete manuscripts from fiction
writers she meets at conferences, or via referral from current clients or
industry associates.
No erotica, academic, or textbooks, please.
A
literary agent since 2008, Sandra Bishop represents a boutique list of notable
non-fiction and award-winning fiction authors.
Sandra passionately supports her clients closely from
idea through negotiation and beyond, and works alongside an author’s editor,
publicist, and marketing team to help create opportunities for success.
Sandra is a former Marine, and is also a Portland,
Oregon native who doesn’t like ale, drive a Subaru, wait two hours in line for
brunch, or live in a treehouse with a lumberjack (much to her dismay.) She does
enjoy hiking, live music, paddle-boarding, sunshine, star gazing, and working
out of her home office located halfway between the scenic Columbia River Gorge
and the rugged Oregon coast.
Query Sandra at: querysandra@transatlanticagency.com
See full
submission details for all agents at Transatlantic here.
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| Evan Brown |
If you’re interested
in meeting an agent and in getting published, don’t miss our upcoming How to Get Published workshops Saturday, Oct 3, in Toronto with Evan
Brown of Transatlantic Literary Agency (see here)
and Saturday, Oct 24, in Guelph with Paige Sisley of the CookeMcdermid
agency (see here).
And if you’re specifically
interested in writing and publishing Kid Lit, don’t miss Writing for Children and for Young Adults, with Anne
Shone, Executive Editor, Scholastic Books, Saturday, September 12, local to be determined.
Details here.
In the meanwhile, though, the best
way of upping your game as a writer may be with a weekly course. This summer,
Brian Henry’s offering an Introductory course and two Intensive courses, one of
them online and, so, accessible anywhere in the world:
Online: Intensive Creative Writing, Tuesday afternoons, July 7 – Aug 25. First
reading emailed June 30. Details here.
Online: Intensive Creative Writing, Wednesday evenings, July 8 – Aug 26. First
reading emailed July 1. Details here.
Beyond that, Brian’s post-pandemic
workshop schedule continues to take shape:
July
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| Collingwood, Ontario |
Southampton Art School: Join me in this lovely beach town on Lake Huron for
two workshops: How to Build Your Story, Saturday,
July 25 (see here) and How
to Write Great Characters, Sunday, July 26 (see here).
August
September
Alliston: Writing for Children and for Young Adults with Anne Shone, Executive Editor, Scholastic Books, Saturday, September 12. Details here.
Alliston: Writing for Children and for Young Adults with Anne Shone, Executive Editor, Scholastic Books, Saturday, September 12. Details here.
October
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| The Tower at the Briars Resort - a great space for writing |
Toronto: How
to Get Published with Evan Brown of Transatlantic
Literary Agency, Saturday, Oct 3. Details here.
Guelph: How
to Get Published with literary agent Paige
Sisley of CookeMcDermid, Saturday, Oct 24. Details here.
London: How
to Write Great Characters, Saturday, October 31.
Treats for everyone in costume. Details here.
November
Jackson's Point: Writing Retreat at the Briar's Resort on Lake
Simcoe, Friday, Nov 13 – Monday,
Nov 16. Details to come.
See Brian’s complete current schedule here, including writing workshops, weekly writing
classes, and weekend retreats in, Bolton, Barrie, Brampton, Burlington,
Caledon, Collingwood, Georgetown, Georgina, Guelph, Hamilton, Jackson’s Point,
Kingston, Kitchener-Waterloo, London, Midland, Mississauga, Oakville, Ottawa,
Peterborough, St. Catharines, Southampton, Sudbury, Toronto, Windsor,
Woodstock, Halton, Muskoka, Peel, Simcoe, York Region, the GTA, Ontario and
beyond.
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