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Megan Close Zavala is an associate agent at Keller Media, an agency responsible for over 1,200 rights deals worldwide, including 16 New York Times best sellers and 9 international best sellers. Her passion lies not only in getting great books published, but in working closely with the authors who write them. Nothing is more exciting […]
Lucy Carson joined The Friedrich Agency in early 2008, where she now has her own list of NYT Bestselling authors in addition to managing all Film & Television Rights for the agency. During her eight years with The Friedrich Agency, Lucy has worked with such authors as Sue Grafton, Lisa Scottoline, Ruth Ozeki, Terry McMillan, […]
Author RUSSELL SCOTT ANDERSON, M.D. is a radiation oncologist who serves as the medical director of Anderson Cancer Center in Meridian, Miss. He is a former Navy diver who worked in operations in the Middle East, Central America, and in support of the Navy’s EOD community, SEALS, the U.S. Army’s Green Berets, the Secret Service, […]
Sheree Bykofsky, AAR, represents over 100 book authors in all areas of adult non-fiction as well as literary and commercial fiction. Her non-fiction specialties include popular reference, business, health, psychology, poker, spirituality, self-help, humor, cookbooks, pop culture, biography, women’s issues, decorating & crafts, music, and much more. Among Sheree’s non-fiction clients are Taro Gold, Jane […]
Elizabeth Copps began her publishing career in 2010 as an intern for Maria Carvainis Agency, Inc. after graduating from Florida State University with a BA in English Literature. She was thrilled to join the agency full-time in 2011 as the new literary assistant. Two years later, she was offered the position of literary associate and […]
Denise [Deni] Dietz of Five Star Mysteries has been in the publishing business for over 20 years and has been reading fiction for mumble-mumble years longer than that. When she was in grade school she tried to hide her mom’s hardcover Gone With the Wind inside her Dick and Jane reader. She got caught, learned her lesson, and […]
We are pleased to announce the newest member of the agent/editor team Susan Finesman. Susan is the principle of Fine Literary, a boutique literary agency based in Los Angeles. She worked with Killer Nashville 2014 Claymore Award winner, Dana Chamblee Carpenter, whose work “Bohemian Gospel” is due on bookshelves in November. That’s how Susan […]
Michaela Hamilton, executive editor at Kensington, acquires and edits commercial fiction and nonfiction including thrillers, true crime and cozy mysteries. She works with authors including M. William Phelps, Caitlin Rother, Neal Baer, John Lutz, Gregg Olsen, Barbara Allan, Waverly Curtis, John Gilstrap, Nancy Coco, and Leo J. Maloney. She likes her thrillers violent, her cozies […]
Cate Hart will be returning to the Killer Nashville Writers’ Conference for an encore performance as a junior agent from Corvisiero Literary Agency. A native of Nashville, she started out writing Young Adult paranormal romance, and fell in love with the publishing side of the business. “Pretty quickly I realized I wanted to be able […]
Michelle L. Johnson is a literary agent, the founder of Inklings Literary Agency and has a business administration background in addition to a lifetime of working with books (sales, editing, and writing) and authors (marketing, promoting, event planning). She has spent many years in the editing field for private clients and multiple independent publishing houses. Michelle […]