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April 30, 2008

I'm gonna be fiddling with my stupid Oprah book forever. The latest thing I'm calling it is Oprah's Dead Son, but it's still not anywhere near done and I've gotta get it done in order to go back and get it done right. I think I started it in 2002. That might have been a while ago. Here's an e-mail I just got:

Subject: remove me from your spam list You're on your own list and I don't do spam. G. Mr. Jones. I received the e-mail below unsolicited from you this morning. I do not know you nor I have I done business with you. I have requested not to receive any more emails from you. Unsolicited commercial emails are spam. I will forward the next one I receive from either of these addresses along with my last two emails to the New York Attorney General's consumer protection division. According to your public profile at the Columbia Journalism School website, you're working on your first book "Fake News, Real Politics." I have a free website listing agents and publishers which may be of assistance to you. I sent an e-mail to the address you provided on the Columbia site, which in and of itself is a tacit solicitation of e-mail communication. Further, my e-mail was in no way "commercial." I'm not selling anything. I gave you a link to a free book, links to chapters of a free audio book, offered to send you a free copy of the fifteen-hour audio book in its entirety and gave you the url of my free website which may aid you in your search for representation and the publication of your first book. The audio book is a narrative nonfiction account of the history of America from 1943 to 2003 which includes pertinent audio clips from noteworthy individuals who helped shape "real news" during those years, from The Shadow, Father Coughlin, Charles Lindbergh, JFK, MLK, Robert Welch, Harry Truman, etc. to Allen Ginsberg, Leadbelly, Walter Chronkite, Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, etc. (see the free index I provided you for the others). What that all means is that the book I gave you for free and the audio book I offered to send you for free is "news." Your bio says you're a news guy who, as such, should be interested in news. Whose fault is it that you're not what you say you are? Feel free to include this reply in your complaint to the NY Attorney General and/or whomsoever else you may want to complain to. Thanks. G.

Here's the original e-mail I sent the guy.

Quote:

Here's Ginny Good in its entirety:

http://everyonewhosanyone.com/ggsyn1.html

Here are some sample chapters from The Audio Book of Ginny Good.

Chapter 7: North Beach, New Year's Eve, 1962
http://everyonewhosanyone.com/audio/GGch07m.mp3

Chapter 13: San Francisco, Tijuana, Mississippi, New York, Summer, 1964
http://everyonewhosanyone.com/audio/GGch13m.mp3

Chapter 19: La Honda, May, 1965
http://everyonewhosanyone.com/audio/GGch19m.mp3

Chapter 23: Haight-Ashbury, Fall, 1967, Part 1
http://everyonewhosanyone.com/audio/GGch23m.mp3

Chapter 24: Haight-Ashbury, Fall, 1967, Part 2
http://everyonewhosanyone.com/audio/GGch24m.mp3

Chapter 32: Hillsborough, CA, Summer, 1982
http://everyonewhosanyone.com/audio/GGch32m.mp3

Chapter 35: Ashland, OR, February, 2003
http://everyonewhosanyone.com/audio/GGch35m.mp3

Here's the index:
http://everyonewhosanyone.com/ggsyn.html

If you want a copy of the whole huge fifteen-hour extravaganza on .mp3 CDs for free, give me an address and I'll send you a copy. There's a bunch of other stuff on my little website, too. Click some links and see. Thanks. G.

Gerard Jones
everyone@everyonewhosanyone.com
http://www.everyonewhosanyone.com

Unquote.

"...they'll have me whipped for speaking true, thou'lt
have me whipped for lying; and sometimes I am
whipped for holding my peace. I had rather be any
kind o' thing than a fool: and yet I would not be
thee, nuncle..."

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Man, that's about the fifteenth time I've spelled Santa Clarita rong. Something bad must have happened to me there; fortunately I'm way too senile to remember what. All fixed (I think). Thanks. G.

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Thank you for the heads up on your web site. I'm new at this and can certainly use the extra plug! Thank you. I'm making the segue from many years in publishing pr and feel this gives me a good background for not only getting books published but publicizing them after they're sold. The latter is the easy part compared to the former. As we all know, many a book has died on the in-house publicist's desk. My specialty is celebrity bios, literary fiction, self-help and anything else that is well-written, smart and timely.

Publicizing them after they're sold is the tricky part to me. The hype starts with the sale. If some big publisher is willing to invest a bunch of figures in a book, people immediately think it must be a good book. I'm beginning to lose my sense of the absurd. Thanks. G.

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I'm an attorney, and author of 10 books and over 100 articles, as well as a literary agent, which distinguishes me from other agents. Tell me about your books, and you. rg

The new one's going to be impossible to sell because it reunites Oprah Winfrey with the illegitimate child she had when she was fourteen. That whole subplot turns out to be a fantasy induced by the main character having an intracranial aneurysm, but the reader isn't let in on that fact until the fantasy's over and replaced by a more troubling world view--reality. I'll include what distinguishes you from other agents. All I have for you at this point is your name and email address, if you want anything else, let me know what. Thanks. G.

Dear Gerard, As we used to say in television, you buried the lead! So, you'd like to get a book published? Wouldn't we all... Anyway, re the "masterpiece" masquerading as a thriller...attach the first two chapters to me, and I'll take a look. I'll get to the memoir in a little bit. You say that you're putting together a book of agents/editors/publishers? That's fine but it's hard to keep up with all the changes in publishing and even as plugged in as we like to think we are, we have trouble even though we update our books weekly. I also have a copy of Writer's Guide etc., the one that Herman puts out (we're not listed; we're only in the LMP) and I see that it's out-of-date in many instances even though it is the 2002-03 edition. So, good luck with that. And your website? When will that be up and running? Best regards, Robbie Anna Hare

Dear Robbie: I'll end this with a synopsis of the masterpiece masquerading as a thriller and include .rtf attachments of the first two chapters. Take your time with the memoir, it ain't going anywhere. As for Who's Who in adult trade publishing, nobody, not even LMP has got anything like it. It's all going to be free, no advertising, no popups, only a place where people can send me money if they want to and it will include whatever pertinent information I was able to find about a whole bunch of agents, editors and publishers--around 900 so far. I'm not including those for whom I couldn't find an email address. About you, for example, all I have is your name and email address, but that, apparently, was enough. I can update the thing whenever an update is in order, weekly, monthly, whatever. So, will that be slick, or what? Thanks. G.

Dear Gerard, I hope this response hasn't taken too long. As I said, the pile on my desk is Mt. Everest high, and it takes a while to get through all the material. I enjoyed Giselle's antics -- but then, I'm a fairly quirky reader. However, I've had bad experiences in trying to find publishers for work in this genre, and I'm afraid to say, with very little success. Most editors just aren't willing to take on something that doesn't "fit" really well, and I'm afraid I don't think your novel does. At least not yet. So, do please accept my thanks for letting me take a look, and my best wishes in finding an agent who will grab it out of your hands. Sincerely, Robbie Anna Hare, Goldfarb & Associates

Hey, Robbie, don't feel like the Lone Ranger. I'm kind of getting off on the idea that the thing ain't ever going to get published. I consider it a feather in my cap that it don't fit with the claptrap and crap people are publishing readily these days. Thanks for taking a look. Either your email or my email is whacked, by the way. I'm forwarding this to you the way I got it. Thanks again. G.

Dear Gerard, Yikes. Reading my letters to you on your Website was a bit like walking into the living room after guests have arrived and finding I've left my bra draped over the sofa! Anyway, it is what it is and at least the bra is clean, that is, I sound like a reasonable agent with whom to be dealing...How's it all going? All my best, Robbie

Dear Robbie: Ha! It's going swimmingly, thanks. Some people's bras are less clean than others, apparently, but it is what it is—res ipsa loquitur, I always say. G.

Update: March, 2006

Dear Gerard, Good to hear from you, and to see you retain your good-homored edge despite so much rejection. Clearly, you are more philosophical, and optimstic than I! I would like a change to my info on the site, please. For a variety of reasons, including wanting time to research a project of my own that's been on the backburners far too long, I'm taking on very little fiction these days, preferring non-fiction which is, as we both know, a somewhat more predictable market. Oddly, it appears my list favors political and psychological/prescriptive -- with some horseracing thrown in! -- so I'd say they are the sorts of submissions I'll be happy to take a look at. Thanks, Robbie Anna Hare

Horseracing, yes! I ain't philosophical I just happen to know for a total fact that I'm too cool for school, despite what 12,000 nincompoops in the entertainment and media businesses who've never read or listened to my beautiful books have somehow mysteriously concluded. Here's a chapter where Neal Cassady asks: "Who's ever happy angry?"

http://everyonewhosanyone.com/audio/GGch22m.mp3

Thanks. G.

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Hello, Gerard, There are at least 1700 agents in America these days. I like to find fresh voices with new ideas. Would be glad to see the first 10 pp. and 2 p. synopsis of the novel. Send with SASE & phone #. And read our website. Elizabeth

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Dear Michael: Who's who in adult trade publishing I'm simply in the process of doing. I've got the names, addresses, urls, e-mail addresses and whatever information individuals are willing to provide for around 535 agents so far. I've left out all those for whom I couldn't find e-mail addresses (which included a few good agents, but, surprisingly, not that many) and most of those who are obviously neophytes. Now I'm working on editors and publishers. When it's completed, I can update it however often I want, depending on what feedback I may get. The way it will work will be that writers can simply send queries to agents, editors or publishers they find appropriate for their work by clicking on an e-mail address. The only thing I haven't figured out yet is how to make money from the project. I used to live right around the corner from you, on Bush Street, by the way. You have a cool house. Thanks. G.

***Redacted***

Hey, Michael, here's what the page you're on is generally gonna look like. It's one of the smaller pages, actually, and is one of eight pages just like it with my first pass at the project which will evenntually include everyone who's anyone in adult trade publishing in the US and the UK. So is it better than Jeff Herman's book, or what? It might even be better than the LMP, too, and it sure don't cost no $389 a year. Thanks. G.

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Dear Mike: What, pray tell, is an expectation of confidentiality? People say what they say. I say what I say back. That's what the unadorned truth turns out to be. It's funny and sad and revelatory. It shows rather than tells what agents, editors and publishers do and how they do it. I crack myself up. I don't pontificate. Those who have ears hear. Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke. Best of luck helping writers launch careers. G.

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Dear Mike: If my name were Jon I might think you pay close enough attention to what you read and write to really care whether some silly writer said what you said in some silly website, but my name's not Jon and I can't see anything wrong with what you said. I thought it was actually sort of bland. What exactly do you want removed? Having been a writer for four decades I've come to know that honesty's the best policy. I've never said anything I've ever wanted removed from anywhere. I do unto others as I would have them do unto me. Thanks again. Gerard Jones

***Redacted***

Hey, Michael, since it's my project and I have a pretty good idea what's good for writers too, how about we leave everything the way it is? I've included the url to your website and have read and recommend the good, sound, solid, uplifting advice provided there. You're welcome to add anything you wish, but I'm doing this thing the way I'm doing it and I truly do not understand what was "wrong" with your earlier comments. They were candid. That's what writers deserve from agents, editors and publishers and that's what I'm endeavoring to give them. Thanks. G.

Hi! Please delete everything in my entry and replace with the following: Please follow the submission instructions on our website. For fiction, send the first 10 pp. and 2 p. synopsis. For narrative nonfiction, mail three chapters and an outline. For other nonfiction, follow the guidelines in HOW TO WRITE A BOOK PROPOSAL, available in libraries and bookstores. An outline also appears on the website. Always include SASE & phone #, and remember, your promotion plan may be the key to selling a project to a major house. Cheers, Mike Larsen (415) 673-0939, 10-5 PST

Coming February 2005: The Second San Francisco Writers Conference. The first one sold out.

http://www.sanfranciscowritersconference.com

Thanks in advance for letting others know about the conference. Do you happen to know many agents there are the in the US? Hope all's well with you and the directory is as successful as you want it to be. Cheers, M.

Hey, Michael, during this current April 2004 revision I've got valid e-mail addresses for around 1,300 US agents, excluding for the most part book doctors, Hollywood guys and agents who chage fees of any kind. Were they and the agents for whom I couldn't find e-mail addresses included I would guess the number at close to 3,000. You can verify the exact number by doing a search on "@" on the five pages of US agents I've listed. I've included a couple hundred UK and Canadian agents, as well. All is peachy with me. I'd like to figure out a way to make big bucks off this sucker since it totally blows Jeff Herman's guide and anything else out there--probably including the LMP--out of the water in terms of currency, ease of use and inclusivity, but big bucks ain't necessarily the best thing one can make. Read my Guest Column at MobyLives and some of the other publicity here:

http://everyonewhosanyone.com/press.html

How was the writer's conference? Hey, you should get a copy of Ginny Good, too. It's a total San Francisco book. Thanks. G.

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Gerard, Look at our website. I would like to take a look at your work. Best, Peter Miller

Dear Peter: Number one, you have an exquisite website. Here's the way I'll include your company in the project I'm putting together.

The novel I have available now is going to be really tricky to sell because it includes a plot which entails reuniting Oprah Winfrey with the illegitimate son she had when she was fourteen. It turns out to have been a fantasy induced in the main character by a giant intracranial aneurysm, but readers aren't told that up front. I'll send you a synopsis and couple chapters if you like. Thanks. G.

G., whoever you are, I don't know who you are and I don't print out mss. for people I don't know. Good luck, Peter Miller

Peter: You sent me an email yesterday. I took a look at your website, liked it and answered your email after I had done so. Thanks. G.

Gerard, Please send your mss. in the mail. Best, Peter Miller

Dear Peter: In an email, you said you'd like to see some of my work. I've enclosed the above referenced novel. I'm in the middle of doing another version with the new title, but you should be able to get a pretty good idea from this whether you want to pursue it or not. Thanks again. Gerard Jones

Gerard, I'll pass but thanks for the opportunity. Good luck. Peter Miller

Peter, Pay attention. At your request I sent you a book a month or so ago. You'll pass on what? Sheesh. G.

Gerard, I only deal with authors exclusively and am just too busy to get involved in this. Peter Miller

Peter, I'm an author. You have one of my books. You asked me to send it to you. I sent it to you. I'm not asking you to get involved in anything. I'm asking you to THINK for like about one-tenth of a second. Or not. Thanks. G.

Dear Gerard Jones: Thank you for letting us read ASTRAL WEEKEND. Although the book is very interesting and the character of Giselle comes across very clearly from the opening pages, it is not a book that is right for PMA's list. I appreciate your sending it to us and wish you the best of luck in placing it elsewhere. You did not include return postage so we are going to discard your manuscript. Sincerely, Peter Miller

Update: January, 2005

Gerard, Thanks for the email. There is lots happening at PMA and Millennium Lion, Inc. in '05 so stay in touch and also visit PMA's website to stay up to date. Best, Peter Miller, President

PMA receives hundreds of submissions weekly. A professional writer acts as such before they are published. Best of luck.

How does one "act" professional? Is that some kind of code word for being a kowtowing, no-talent, kiss-up gerbil who couldn't write his or her way out of a paper bag? Just curious. G.

No, more along the lines of not writing a nasty response when receiving a letter declining representation.

Oh, come on, you think Kafka didn't get a little ticked when nobody published any of his stuff while he was alive? And yet if you had one of his "nasty" responses you could auction it for more money than you're gonna make in the next ten years. Chill, dudette. G.

http://everyonewhosanyone.com/ggsyn6.html

I'm sure that's true. Happy Holidays.

Same to you. G.

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Sure. Send the first few chapters as an attached Word or rich text file(s). Bob

Here are the first six chapters, around 50 pages, as .rtf files. Thanks. G.

I like the first chapter. Assuming that the ms. is not out with other agents and hasn't been seen by publishers, please send it to me on a two week exclusive basis and I will let you know if I will offer representation. Best, Bob

When I got to page 134 and was truly disappointed that I had no more .... it was clear I would like to try and sell your book for you. I haven't a clue where this novel is going except that it seems clear that The Mayonnaise Man is all in her mind ... what you do with that and where you are going I have not a clue. Yes, please send the rest. I'm pleased to become your agent. Best, Bob Diforio

Hey, Bob, here's a synopsis. You're right about it being a total fantasy, think "Being John Malcovich," but, be that as it may, it's still going to be a tricky book to sell on account of Oprah's gonna have a cow and publishers are scared of her insofar as she appears to have accounted for around eight percent of trade fiction sales over the last few years. I'm still fiddling with the end, but I'll send you the rest of what I have. Thanks. G.

Thanks. Now tell me something about you. Best, Bob

Something about me? Like biographically speaking? I grew up in Michigan, moved to San Francisco, had a long life and now live in Ashland, Oregon. My literary education? How and why I became a "writer?" Okay:

http://everyonewhosanyone.com/audio/GGch08m.mp3

Thanks. G.

Hi - Sorry to report that Sourcebooks is passing, just received their letter of 7/15. I am going to return the ms. and send you a copy of the letter. Sorry I couldn't be of more help but I am just swamped with work. I wish you every success with another agent. Bob

What? G.

Aren't you the author of Ophra Wimsfree & The Mayonnaise Man?

Yep, but I haven't heard anything from you for months, haven't finishd the ms. yet and have no idea why you're sending it out. Kindly explain. Thanks. G.

We had an exchange of e-mails in which I offered to have one editor read the work to date. You sent me revisions, twice and with the second set I sent it to an editor at Sourcebooks. Do you not remember your note "use this and throw out what I previously sent?" The point of my earlier e-mail today was that the editor at Sourcebooks passed and I am returning what you sent me back to you. This didn't happen in a vacuum. Bob

Bob: I have all our emails. You did not offer to have "an editor read the work to date," nor were you authorized to act on my behalf. We established no agency agreement. And if we had wouldn't your "best efforts" include submitting the work to more than one editor? Just curious. Thanks again. G.

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Dear Gerard, I want to thank you for this extraordinary website you have created and the considerable work you do in updating it every year. The information on publishers and editors beats that given in every published guide book I?ve ever seen.

I fear I?ve been quite delinquent in updating my listing in your admirable site and will remedy that now. As a general background, writers would probably want to know that we share a bond since I have been in the trenches as a writer and have had two novels published, one by Bantam and the other by Putnam. I still have the now brittle yellowed pages of the LA Times that show my second novel on its bestseller list.

Am also a member of AAR, have been an editor, taught writing , conducted workshops, published articles and editor interviews in regional and national writers? magazines and for several years gave seminars at the Learning Annex.

I?m a unique agent in a number of ways. For one thing, 90% of my writers were unknown, unpublished and mostly rejected when they first contacted me. For another, I usually respond to queries in less than a week, despite receiving 1500 a month. In the early days of my agency I did extensive editing (all free, of course) and I still do a considerable amount. I also bring the writer into the marketing process. As far as I know, I am the only agent who markets mss to editors by email and shares both my marketing pitch and the editors? replies with the author.

My first love has always been fiction, basically contemporary women?s stories, literary fiction, thrillers/mysteries/suspense and literary young adult/teen novels. So it is enormously frustrating to me that it?s nonfiction which keeps my business going. Of course I love the truly great memoirs as much as novels and have sold many of those.

But to sell a novel by a new unknown writer is almost impossible these days. The ?new? isn?t the problem. It?s the ?unknown.? Major deals are made every day with writers who?ve just written their first novel but offer their publisher name recognition through their high profile jobs as CAA or ICM talent agents, hosts of their own TV shows, models, movie stars, major political figures, reporters for the giant metropolitan newspapers, writers for national magazines, sons and daughters of famous people, etc.

So I cannot encourage novelists, although I continue to consider their work and every once in a wonderful while actually get offers from major New York houses. I have been known to persist through 87 rejections before finally selling a book (MEMOIRS OF A DWARF IN THE SUN KING'S COURT) and routinely persevere after 20 rejections.

However, if you?re a top scientist with the ability to write engrossing non fiction, I?d love to hear from you. Economic professors from major universities along with professionals in the military and intelligence services are also most welcome. Indeed, anyone who?s an expert in an area that?s regularly in the news is someone for whom I can do good things in the nonfiction area.

Just snail mail me a query letter listing your qualifications and a brief description of your book, along with either your email address or a self addressed stamped envelope. Please do not call me or email me initially. I am so hounded by writers who ignore this request that I never answer my phone except for pre-arranged calls (the answering machine provides our address and guidelines) and emails are automatically deleted. Best, Jodi

I'll fix things. Here's a little snippet of my earliest "history" as a writer. Thanks. G.

http://everyonewhosanyone.com/audio/GGch05m.mp3

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Gerard, Just noted that you have 'Altair Book Scouts' added to Altair Literary Agency's listing. As Altair Book Scouts is NOT a Literary Agency--and so does not represent any authors--we would appreciate it if you would remove the Altair Book Scouts links and name from your site. Also, it appears that you have not received previous update notices about Altair Literary Agency. Hopefully, this one makes it to your inbox: As of 2005, Altair Literary Agency is not taking on ANY additional clients. Thanks. Nicholas

Hey, Nicholas, I've included your note & trust it's self-explanatory. My site is available to publishers looking for scouts as well as to writers looking for agents, however, so I'll leave the "Book Scouts" link alone. Thanks. G.

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New York, NY 10021

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Freehold, NJ 07728

Dear Gerard: Like so many of the agents you've contacted, I have a rather full clientele, since I've been in the business 18 years. I handle dark fiction (sci-fi, horror and dark fantasy, as well as dark literary fiction) and nonfiction about pop culture. I'm taking on very few new clients right now. Best, Lori Perkins

Dear Lori: If you do dark fantasy and dark literary fiction, you ought to take a look at this:

http://everyonewhosanyone.com/awsyn.html

Or not. Thanks again. G.

Gerard: Thanks, but it's not for me. Best, Lori

Gerard: This is a great resource for writers, and an enormous amount of work for you. But very cool. Good luck with it. I hope it makes you famous, or at least notorius. You might want to try writing up your experiences chasing agents and editors for one of those writing articles. Best, Lori

Hey, Lori, it's not really that much work and what work it is is fun or I wouldn't do it. There will most likely come a day when all this agenting and editing and book buying and book selling and book promoting will be done more electronically and resources like my little website will come in handy. I like being a pioneer. As for writing an article, the thing's an article all by itself. Thanks. G.

Spectrum Literary Agency
320 Central Park West, #1-D
New York, NY 10025

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The Jeff Herman Agency
332 Bleecker Street, Suite 631
New York, NY 10014

http://www.jeffherman.com

Creative Book Services
66 Grand Street, Suite One
New York, NY 10013
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Heacock Literary Agency
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Patricia Moosbrugger Literary Agency
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The Martell Agency
545 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10022
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The Doe Coover Agency
PO Box 668
Winchester, MA 01890

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The Anderson Literary Agency, Inc.
395 Riverside Drive, #12AH
New York, NY 10025

Pam Strickler Author Management
PO Box 429
2760 Lucas Turnpike
Accord, NY 12404

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Stephanie von Hirschberg Literary Agency
1385 Baptist Church Rd.
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598

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250 West 57th St., Ste. 2302
New York, NY 10107
(212) 245-4225

Ruth Cohen, Inc., Literary Agency
PO Box 2244
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Barbara Tolley Associates
80 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10011
(212) 647-1800

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251 Central Park West, #7D
New York, NY 10024

The Charlotte Gusay Agency
10532 Blythe
Los Angeles, CA 90064

http://www.gusay.com

The Fielding Agency
269 South Beverly Drive, Suite 341
Beverly Hills, CA 90212

http://fieldingagency.com

Rebecca Strong International Literary Agency

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