April 2013

An Honors graduate of Harvard College, I've been a literary agent for 31 years, the last 26 as Principal of the Gina Maccoby Literary Agency, representing authors of high quality fiction and non-fiction for adults and children. I am serving my third term on the Board of Directors of the Association of Authors' Representatives, Inc. I am a member of the Contracts and Ethics subcommittees and Board liaison to the Royalties subcommittee; previously I was Board liaison to the Foreign Rights subcommittee. I'm a long-time member of the Authors Guild.

NON-FICTION

John Beeson. Principal, Beeson Consulting, a management consulting firm specializing in succession planning; executive assessment, coaching and development; and organization design. Author, THE UNWRITTEN RULES: The Six Skills You Need to Get Promoted to the Executive Level.

Donald L. Miller. John Henry MacCracken Professor of History at Lafayette College, author of national best-seller MASTERS OF THE AIR: AMERICA'S BOMBER BOYS WHO FOUGHT THE AIR WAR AGAINST NAZI GERMANY and prizewinning CITY OF THE CENTURY: THE EPIC OF CHICAGO AND THE MAKING OF AMERICA and six other books. History consultant to the 2010 HBO series "The Pacific" and the 2011 HBO documentary "He Has Seen War." Lead scholar, writer and host, "A Biography Of America," a 26-part PBS series.

Joi L. Morris and Ora K. Gordon, MD. Authors of the essential BRCA handbook, POSITIVE RESULTS: Making the Best Decisions When You're at High Risk for Breast or Ovarian Cancer, 2011 Honorable Mention AMWA healthcare books for consumers. Morris is an outreach coordinator for FORCE (Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered) in Los Angeles, recipient of a 2012 FORCE Spirit of Empowerment Award for POSITIVE RESULTS, and an advocate in science for Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Dr. Gordon is Director of the GenRISK Adult Genetics Program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Assoc. Professor of Medicine at the UCLA Geffen School of Medicine, and Director of cancer genetics at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center.

Estate of Lewis Mumford. Winner of the National Book Award, recipient of the National Medal of Arts, author of thirty books and a significant body of cultural criticism and commentary on literature, history, philosophy, the urban setting and technology, "the last of the great humanists" (Malcolm Cowley).

FICTION

Linda Barnes. Winner, Anthony and American Mystery Awards; author of the Edgar, Anthony and Shamus award-nominated Carlotta Carlyle series.

Rick Riordan. Author of the Edgar, Anthony, and Shamus award-winning Tres Navarre series.

Lee Goldberg. Veteran tv writer, producer, showrunner, two-time Edgar nominee, author of the popular MONK tie-in novels and co-author of SUCCESSFUL TELEVISION WRITING, winner of the Scribe Award for Best Novel from the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers.

CHILDREN'S

Jean Fritz. Winner, Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for her "substantial and lasting contribution to children's literature," leading biographer and author of more than thirty-five award-winning books.

Mary Ann Hoberman. Former Children's Poet Laureate of America, National Book Award Winner, New York Times best-selling author of more than thirty-five books for children including the beloved A HOUSE IS A HOUSE FOR ME.

Natalie Kinsey-Warnock. Author of award-winning first novel THE CANADA GEESE QUILT and AS LONG AS THERE ARE MOUNTAINS, Vermont Reads 2006, A Statewide, One-Book Community Reading Program, and nineteen other picture books and novels

Janet Taylor Lisle. Winner, Newbery Honor Medal and Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, author of sixteen acclaimed books for children, tweens and young adults.

Laura Krauss Melmed. Author of NY Times bestselling THE RAINBABIES and I LOVE YOU AS MUCH .... and fifteen other picture books.

Susan Stockdale, author/illustrator of five natural history picture books including CARRY ME! ANIMAL BABIES ON THE MOVE, a Bank Street Best Book of the Year and winner, Parent's Choice Award, and FABULOUS FISHES, a National Science Teacher's Association outstanding science trade book for children.

The Perfect Ghost by Linda Barnes, St. Martin's Press

STRIPES OF ALL TYPES by Susan Stockdale, Peachtree

DOODLE WASHINGTON, D.C. by Laura K. Melmed to duopress

TRUE COLORS by Natalie Kinsey-Warnock, forthcoming Knopf, November 2012

WILEY'S LAMENT by Lono Waiwaiole, Down & Out Books
WILEY'S SHUFFLE by Lono Waiwaiole, DOWN & Out Books
WILEY'S REFRAIN by Lono Waiwaiole, Down & Out Books
DARK PARADISE by Lono Waiwaiole, Down & Out Books

BEFORE WE MET by Laura Krauss Melmed, Beach Lane/Simon & Schuster

THE SIEGE:VICKSBURG 1863 by Donald L. Miller, Simon & Schuster

SUPREME CITY: New York in the Twenties by Donald L. Miller, Simon & Schuster

MR. MONK ON THE COUCH by Lee Goldberg, Signet
MR. MONK ON PATROL by Lee Goldberg, Signet
MR. MONK IS A MESS by Lee Goldberg, Signet
UNTITLED MONK #15, Signet

COLD CASE by Julia Platt Leonard, Aladdin Books

I LIKE OLD CLOTHES by Mary Ann Hoberman, Knopf Books for Young Readers

YOU READ TO ME, I'LL READ TO YOU: Very Short Tall Tales to Read Together by Mary Ann Hoberman, Little Brown Books for Young Readers

FORGET-ME-NOTS: Poems to Learn by Heart by Mary Ann Hoberman, Little Brown Books for Young Readers

ALEXANDER HAMILTON The Outsider by Jean Fritz, G.P. Putnam's Sons

Audio rights, THE ART OF KEEPING COOL by Janet Taylor Lisle to AudioGo

Audio rights, THE LOST FLOWER CHILDREN by Janet Taylor Lisle to AudioGo

Ebook rights, AFTERNOON OF THE ELVES and 9 backlist titles by Janet Taylor Lisle to Open Road Integrated Media

Audio rights, D-DAYS IN THE PACIFIC by Donald L. Miller to Blackstone

Audio rights, THE STORY OF WORLD WAR II by Donald L. Miller to Blackstone

Simplified Chinese language rights to LEWIS MUMFORD: A Life by Donald L. Miller, to The Commercial Press

Bulgarian language rights, BIG RED TEQUILA and THE WIDOWER'S TWO-STEP by Rick Riordan, to Egmont

Russian language rights, NOBODY'S PERFECT: Bill Bernbach and the Golden Age of Advertising by Doris Willens to Eksmo.

Russian language rights, BIG RED TEQUILA and THE WIDOWER'S TWO-STEP by Rick Riordan to Eksmo.

Portuguese language rights in Brazil, BIG RED TEQUILA by Rick Riordan to Editora Record.

Korean language rights, LEWIS MUMFORD: A Life by Donald L. Miller to Text Publishing Co.

Korean language rights, THE STORY OF UTOPIAS by Lewis Mumford to Text Publishing Co.

Film rights, DARK PARADISE by Lono Waiwaiole, option to PJ Productions.

Film rights, AMY'S EYES by Richard Kennedy, option to Jon Shestack Productions.

Audio rights, LIE DOWN WITH THE DEVIL by Linda Barnes to Recorded Books.

Audio rights, HEART OF THE WORLD by Linda Barnes, to Recorded Books.

Audio rights, HIGHWAY CATS by Janet Taylor Lisle, to Recorded Books.

Audio rights, A HOUSE IS A HOUSE FOR ME by Mary Ann Hoberman to JY Books, Korea

Simplified Chinese rights, THE LEWIS MUMFORD READER to China Architecture and Building Press

Owing to the volume of submissions I receive I am unable to reply to each one. Please query by email and send your message to query@maccobylit.com.