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Terra Little's JUMP, coming March 2011
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Kate Quinn's DAUGHTERS OF ROME, coming April 2011
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agent : pdsnewyork-agency@yahoo.com
Pam Strickler
134 Main Street, New Paltz, NY 12561
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Nicola Cornick's "Scandalous Women of the Ton" series launches this October

Pamela Dean Strickler was senior editor for sixteen years at Ballantine Books and is now working as an authors' representative with her own company. She brings a passion for books and an inside understanding of the publishing business to the service of her clients.

Next conference appearance: Southwestern Writers September 24-26, Tucson

Workshop Sept. 25: How to Write a Query Letter. In this workshop, learn the Do’s and Don’ts for writing and sending a query letter. Pam Strickler will select previously submitted query letters from the audience and analyze them (gently) for the edification of all, as well as giving pointers and taking questions. If you wish to send her your sample query letter, please Mail a hardcopy to the address above, being sure to mark the outside of the envelope “Wrangling with Writing conference.”


years experience: 30 years plus in publishing.
GENRES & SPECIALTIES
Historical Fiction, Women's fiction, Romance.....DO NOT handle Nonfiction, YA/Children's, Picture Books, Or Screenplays
BEST-KNOWN PROJECTS
As an agent, Pam has represented first novels such as Kate Quinn's historical saga, MISTRESS OF ROME (Berkley, 2010) and Dorothea Benton Frank's SULLIVAN'S ISLAND (with SCG).
MOST RECENT SALES/ FORTHCOMING BOOKS
Charlotte Carter's A COWBOY'S HEART and two new novels for Steeple Hill, also Book #10 for the Hope Haven hospital series, Guideposts

Nicola Cornick's WHISPER OF SCANDAL and five new novels, HQN

Marie Donovan's KNOWING THE SCORE, and a new "Royal Wedding" trilogy Blaze

Terra Little's WHERE THERE'S SMOKE 2 (February '10) and JUMP (2011), Urban Books

Kate Quinn's MISTRESS OF ROME (April 2010), DAUGHTERS OF ROME (2011), and the third novel in her trilogy of ancient Rome, Berkley

Kimberly Van Meter's first Silhouette Romantic Suspense, TO CATCH A KILLER and a second novel, also a new trilogy about the three foster sons of "Mama Jo" for SuperRomance

MOST RECENT RIGHTS SALES
By Betty Anne Crawford at Books Crossing Borders:

Kate Quinn's MISTRESS OF ROME to Presses de la Cite (France), Maeva (Spain)

SPECIALIZED TRAINING, WORK EXPERIENCE, HONORS
Pam Strickler is a member of the Association of Authors' Representatives (AAR), an associate member of Mystery Writers of America and of Romance Writers of America, and is a "recognized agent" by the RWA. She started her agency in 2001 and previously was associated as an independent agent with the Scovil Chichak Galen Agency of New York. She also worked 1995-99 as an independent manuscript editor.

Pam is concentrating the work of her agency on historical fiction, women's fiction and romance. While on staff at Ballantine, she served as editor to such women's fiction authors as Fern Michaels and Jennifer Wilde. In historical fiction, two of Pam's bestselling Ballantine authors won the prestigious Western Writers of America Spur award for their frontier epics: Lucia St. Clair Robson and James Alexander Thom. Prior to Ballantine, Pam worked five years at Avon Books.

KEY PERSONNEL
Pam Strickler lives and works 90 miles north of Manhattan in the beautiful Hudson Valley/Catskills region of New York State.
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Please, no unsolicited manuscripts.
PREFER EMAIL queries, including a one page letter with a brief description of your plot, plus the first ten pages of your novel ALL PASTED IN to the body of the email. Sorry, unknown attachments will not be opened.
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