Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Top Book Sellers for Fiction

Literary Agent News is proud to announce the top selling books for fiction for the Week of November 11:

1. "Book of thhe Dead" by Patricia Cornwell (Putnam, $26.95)
2. "A Lick of Frost" by Laurell K. Hamilton (Ballantine, $24.95)
3. "Playing for Pizza" by John Grisham (Doubleday, $21.95)
4. "World Without End" by Ken Follett (Dutton, $35.00)
5. "The Almost Moon" by Alice Sebold (Little Brown, $24.99)

Thursday, November 1, 2007

Dawn Frederick Literary Agent Profile

Dawn Frederick is a literary agent with the Sebastian Literary Agency in Wayzata, Minnesota.
She has earned her B.A. and M.A. from the University of Tennessee.
Frederick enjoys representing humor, history, media history and music history books.
Authors may query her at this address:

Ms. Dawn Frederick, Literary Agent
Sebastian Literary Agency
2160 Kenwood Way
Wayzata, Minnesota 55391

Lynn Seligman Literary Agent Profile

Lynn Seligman runs her own literary agency in Upper Montclair, New Jersey.
She has a B.A. from Goucher College, a M.A. in French Literature from Columbia University, near completion of a Ph.D. in French Literature from Columbia.
Seligman enjoys representing literary novels, women's fiction, romance, horror, science fiction and fantasy. In the non-fiction realm, she enjoys representing memoirs, psychology, health, medicine, business, science and women's issues.
Writers may query her at this address:

Ms. Lynn Seligman, Literary Agent
400 Highland Avenue
Upper Montclair, New Jersey 07043

Mary Sue Seymour Literary Agent Profile

Mary Sue Seymour runs her own literary agency in Canton, New York.
She has a B.A. from SUNY.
Seymour enjoys representing romance novels, women's fiction, inspirational books and non-fiction books.
Writers may query Seymour via e-mail at marysue@slic.com

Robert E. Shepard Literary Agent Profile

Robert E. Shepard runs his own literary agency in Berkeley, California.
Shepard has a B.A. and M.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania.
Shepard specializes in representing non-fiction books.
Writers may query him at this address:
Mr. Robert E. Shepard, Literary Agent
The Robert E. Shepard Agency
1608 Dwight Way
Berkeley, California 94703-1804

Ken Sherman Literary Agent Profile

Ken Sherman runs his own literary agency in Beverly Hills, California.
Sherman has a B.S. in Psychology from UC Berkeley.
He enjoys representing screenplays, teleplays and a wide range of fiction and non-fiction books.
Authors may query Sherman at this address:

Mr. Ken Sherman, Literary Agent
Ken Sherman & Associates
9507 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 211
Beverly Hills, California 90210

Wendy Sherman Literary Agent Profile

Wendy Sherman is a literary agent with Wendy Sherman Associates in New York.
Sherman atttended the University of Hartford.
She enjoys representing quality fiction, women's fiction, suspense novels, chicklit and narrative non-fiction.
Writers may query her at this address:

Ms. Wendy Sherman, Literary Agent
Wendy Sherman Associates Inc.
450 Seventh Avenue, Suite 2307
New York, NY 10123