SHALLA CHATS with Literary Agent Dr. Uwe Stender
“Negotiating with Publishers”
by Shalla DeGuzman
First off, who’s Uwe?
“Negotiating with Publishers”
by Shalla DeGuzman
First off, who’s Uwe?
TriadaUS Literary Agency was incorporated in April 2004.Our Founder, Dr. Uwe Stender, has a Ph.D. in Literature from the University of Pittsburgh. He also studied at the University of California, Berkeley and the Universitaet Goettingen, Germany. He taught at both Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh and has been widely published in scholarly journals and books. Uwe was a guest speaker at several major conferences including the SCWC in San Diego, the “Crimebake” (Mystery Writers of America New England Chapter), CAPA-U in Hartford, Connecticut and the Novels in Progress Workshop in Louisville.
TriadaUS has established strong relationships with all the major publishing houses. We also have strong Hollywood contacts and are working very closely with Principal Entertainment for TV and Motion Picture rights.
Our best known clients are former CNN anchor Daryn Kagan, bestselling author and relationship expert Dr. Joel Block, Today show and ivillage contributor and nutrition expert Amy Hendel, legendary NBA referee Bob Delaney, and popular Romance author Jennifer Horsman.
SHALLA CHATS with Literary Agent Caren Johnson
“An Insider’s View on Agenting and Publishing”
by Shalla DeGuzman
First off, who’s Caren?
Caren Johnson recently began her own literary agency, Caren Johnson Literary Agency. She began her agenting career four and a half years ago when she started an internship at Peter Rubie Literary Agency. She stayed at the agency for three years, the first year as an intern and two years as an agent. She then left to join Nadia Cornier at Firebrand Literary where she stayed for a year. She recently made the switch to agenting on her own so she could work more closely with her authors in building their careers. She would like well organized, well crafted stories in the areas of romance (particularly romantic comedy in the vein of Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Jenny Cruisie and Kelley St. John; and historical in the vein of Susan Carroll, Diana Gabaldon, and Lauren Willig—high concept only please!), Teen fiction (in the vein of Caridad Ferrer/ Adios to My Old Life, Scott Westerfeld/ Uglies Trilogy) and commercial fiction (in the vein of Christopher Moore/A Dirty Job, Carl Hiaassen/ Nature Girl). For the moment she’s full up with wonderful paranormal romance (Caridad Pineiro, Lee Roland) and romantic suspense (Caridad Pineiro, Dianna Love Snell) authors so if an author submits in this genre, she will be more critical than she normally is.
SHALLA CHATS with Literary Agent Kelly Sonnack
“Actively Building A List”
by Shalla DeGuzman
First off, who’s Kelly?
“Actively Building A List”
by Shalla DeGuzman
First off, who’s Kelly?
Kelly Sonnack is an agent with the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency, known for establishing and guiding the careers of many fiction and nonfiction authors, including Amy Tan, Janell Cannon, Lisa See, Diane Mott Davidson, Kevin Starr, Mike Davis, and many others.
The Los Angeles Times dubbed the Dijkstra Agency "the most powerful literary agency on the West Coast" and, in its 20+ years, it has developed a reputation for discovering new talent and representing quality work with great commercial potential.
Kelly began her career with the publishing giant Elsevier, under the Academic Press Imprint where she quickly worked her way up to Acquisitions Editor. At the Dijkstra Agency, she manages the submission cycle and also assists with foreign rights and PR. She is actively building her list and is especially interested in all areas of children's literature (YA, MG, picture books, graphic novels) and international women's fiction.
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