"I bet there's not much crossover, " said literary agent David Gernert, who represents thriller writer John Grisham.
Orders for some titles have been reduced by as much as 90%, according to one literary agent.
In 1997 Xinran moved to England, where she met and later married Jung Chang's then literary agent.
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Mantel's literary agent, Bill Hamilton, said Tuesday that she had no comment on the controversy over her lecture.
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Harper, together with Mr. Crichton's literary agent, began approaching potential writers in 2009.
Will Lippincott, El Shafee's literary agent in the United States, said the timing of the revolution had made the book particularly topical.
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The award for best debut novel, now in its sixth year, is named after the distinguished publisher and literary agent who died in 2003.
Two more authors, disgruntled with the standard approach to getting fiction published, have found success without a literary agent, thanks to the Kindle model.
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She and her husband are still shopping around for a literary agent and a publisher but are hoping the book will come out this summer.
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He was also assessing whether I should be his literary agent.
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Christopher Little, a fairly obscure London literary agent, took her on.
Bishop, 39, a former literary agent turned author, keeps a hive or two at her weekend home in Connecticut, two hours north of New York City.
Lucky for Sarno (and unfortunately for her), Alice Fried Martell of The Martell Agency, a literary agent, had severe lower back pain and conventional treatments had utterly failed her.
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She wished to clear her name, and was advised by her literary agent Lucianne Goldberg that the best way to do that would be to tape her conversations with Lewinsky.
Two years later, after pouring everything I had into that second novel, I was broke, back in debt, and the book had been rejected by almost every literary agent in America.
Andrew Wylie, a prominent literary agent, has launched an e-book partnership with Amazon for some of his authors, bypassing traditional publishers and frightening them more than the latest Stephen King horror story.
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Mr Kokh said he earned almost all his money by selling a book on Russian privatisation to a Swiss publisher, a feat that will have other authors scrambling for the number of his literary agent.
Then, according to an account by media watchdog Steven Brill, she was the Set-Up Artist, a conniver who teamed up with literary agent Lucianne Goldberg to expose Clinton's alleged misdeeds primarily because she wanted a book deal.
Other conference goers, many of whom are Gadgetoff regulars, also shone: including Amazon's Jeff Bezos, TED conference founder Richard Saul Wurman, computer engineer Danny Hillis, polymathic inventor Dean Kamen, sly literary agent John Brockman and Creative Good's Mark Hurst.
Hodgman was a self-described former professional literary agent at the time, first making a splash amongst the literati some five years prior with the publication of the column "Ask a Former Professional Literary Agent" for uber-hip San Francisco publisher McSweeney's.
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It was around the time of those early purchases that the author, now playing the part of a deranged millionaire across various internet venues, was employed as a literary agent, utilizing company resources to discover that he was living in the past.
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"Despite the obvious differences, all are great storytellers, weaving stories that have multiple layers of heart and suspense that are not bound by gender or age, " said Rosemary Stimola, a literary agent who represents Ms. Collins, author of "The Hunger Games" trilogy.
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In 2010 a great friend and literary agent, Lorin Rees talked me into writing a book (www.greggfairbrothers.com) on turning ideas into success, despite the fact I'm no writer, and now here I am writing about leadership and being entrepreneurial in a blog, despite the fact I'm no blogger either.
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Ms Ahern's agent said the literary contracts had nothing to do with her father's position, as the publisher who clinched the deal did not even know she was the Irish prime minister's daughter.
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