I founded Writers House in 1974, and have been midwife to books in all adult categories, fiction and non-fiction. And lately I’ve been having some fun with YA and Middle Grade works. I'm interested in working with a few more novelists, literary and commercial, especially authors whose works have received reviews praising their artistry, but whose sales have been only so-so. I'm good at launching and relaunching writers of fiction and non-fiction whose stories are highly dramatic and whose characters are memorable.

A brief sampling of authors and their novels I've worked with are:

HOW TO KILL A ROCK STAR by Tiffanie DeBartolo (Sourcebooks)
ONE THOUSAND WHITE WOMEN by Jim Fergus (St. Martin’s Press)
THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH by Ken Follett (Morrow)
THE FIRST WIVES CLUB by Olivia Goldsmith (Simon & Schuster)
SAVING MAX by Antoinette Van Heugten (Mira)
LASSITER by Paul Levine (Random House)
THE SULTAN'S SEAL by Jenny White (W.W. Norton)
THE RELIGION by Tim Willocks (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
THE KEEP by F. Paul Wilson (Tor)
THE ILLUMINATUS TRILOGY by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson (Dell)
THE QUEEN’S CAPTIVE by Barbara Kyle (Kensington)

Now some non-fiction authors and their works:

THE GRAND DESIGN by Stephen Hawking (Random House)
MONEYBALL by Michael Lewis (W.W. Norton)
REACHING THE ANIMAL MIND by Karen Pryor (Scribner)
DINOSAURS OF THE FLAMING CLIFFS by Michael Novacek (Doubleday)
REPORT FROM GROUND ZERO by Dennis Smith (Viking)
RED ALERT by Stephen Leeb (Grand Central)
THE BLUE DAY BOOK by Bradley Trevor Greive (Andrews McMeel)
THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE WAR ON CANCER by Devra Davis (Basic Books)
THE DIVIDED MIND by Dr. John Sarno (HarperCollins)
YOUR MARKETING SUCKS by Mark Stevens (Crown)
ONE CLICK: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com by Richard Brandt (Portfolio)
100 YARDS OF GLORY: The Greatest Moments in NFL History by Joe Garner and Bob Costas (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

And some Middle Grade and YA:

GENERATION DEAD by Dan Waters (Hyperion)
HOME BOYZ by Alan Lawrence Sitomer (Hyperion)
HOW I, NICKY FLYNN, GOT A LIFE (AND A DOG) by Art Corriveau (Abrams)
DOGLANDS by Tim Willocks (Random House)

Motion Picture, Television, and Theatre Adaptations:

EYE OF THE NEEDLE by Ken Follett (with Donald Sutherland)
THE KEEP by F. Paul Wilson (directed by Michael Mann)
THE FIRST WIVES CLUB by Olivia Goldsmith (starring Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton, and Bette Midler)
PATCH ADAMS by Hunter Patch Adams (starring Robin Williams)
THE BLIND SIDE by Michael Lewis (starring Sandra Bullock in her Academy Award winning role)
MONEYBALL by Michael Lewis (with Brad Pitt and nominated for six Academy Awards including Best Picture)
THE ICEMAN by Anthony Bruno (starring Michael Shannon)
THE KEY TO REBECCA by Ken Follett (1985 TV Movie starring cliff Robertson)
ON WINGS OF EAGLES by Ken Follett (Emmy nominated TV miniseries starring Burt Lancaster)
PETER AND THE STARCATCHERS by Ridley Pearson (Disney production; Off-Broadway and Broadway)
BAD APPLE by Anthony Bruno (TV movie adaptation, starring Colm Meaney and Elliott Gould)
ILLUMINATUS by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea (British National Theatre)

If you are a novelist, I also urge you to read my book WRITING THE BLOCKBUSTER NOVEL. You can order it from Amazon or from Writers House directly. It's been published in 8 languages, has an introduction by Ken Follett, and contains his four outlines for THE MAN FROM ST. PETERSBURG which comprise an unusual primer for structuring a thriller, and this was his first number one bestseller.

Naval officer, foreign service officer, playwright, winner of the Stanley Drama Award, taught playwriting at Yale Drama School, wrote three TV soap operas, published two novels, coproduced THE FRONT PAGE on Broadway with Helen Hayes and Robert Ryan, and obtained an at-the-time record advance for a first novel $830,000 in 1982 for WOMENS WORK by Ann Tolstoi Wallach.

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