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agent : jake@haroldober.com
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Jake Elwell
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| Harold Ober Associates |
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| 425 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10017 |
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Jake Elwell joined Harold Ober Associates, Incorporated as a literary agent in 2007. He previously worked at the Wieser & Wieser, Inc., agency which he acquired and has integrated into the Ober list. He represents clients in the areas of sports, true crime, military, history and other nonfiction as well as thrillers, mysteries and other commercial fiction.
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LEADING CLIENTS
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Jim DeFelice, H. Paul Jeffers, Steven Levenkron, Dewey Lambdin, Bert Randolph Sugar, Charles Coulombe, Herbert Fensterheim, Edwin P. Hoyt estate, William Goyen estate, Ben Lucien Burman estate, Douglas C. Jones estate, Karl Shapiro estate
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BEST-KNOWN PROJECTS
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NIGHTMARE IN WICHITA: The Hunt for the BTK Strangler by Robert Beattie (N.A.L.)
THE BEST LITTLE GIRL IN THE WORLD by Steven Levenkron
THE CARD: Collectors, Con Men, and the True Story of History's Most Desired Baseball Card by Michael O'Keeffe and Teri Thompson (Morrow)
AGENT 146: The True Story of a Nazi Spy in America by Erich Gimpel (SMP)
FREEMASONS by H. Paul Jeffers (Citadel)
DALE BROWN'S DREAMLAND series with Jim DeFelice
Alan Lewrie Naval Adventure series by Dewey Lambdin
"Confidential" higher-ed series by Robert H. Miller
Early works of Dan Brown
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MOST RECENT SALES / FORTHCOMING BOOKS
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ROLE OF A LIFETIME by James "JB" Brown
CONTRARIAN FOOTBALL by KC Joyner (John Wiley)
STOLEN TOMORROWS by Steven Levenkron (Norton)
RISING SONS: The Japanese-American GIs Who Fought for the United States in World War Two
By Bill Yenne (St. Martin's Press)
SKYWALKING: An Astronaut's Memoir by Thomas Jones (Smithsonian Books)
BURNING COLD: The Cruise Ship Prinsendam And the Greatest Sea Rescue of All Time
by H. Paul Jeffers (Zenith Press)
THE WIRE: TRUTH BE TOLD by Rafael Alvarez (Pocket)
HISTORY OF THE E.C.W. by Thom Loverro (Pocket)
CAMPUS CONFIDENTIAL by Robert Miller (Jossey-Bass)
LEOPARDS KILL by Jim DeFelice (Tor)
BABY BULL by Orlando Cepeda (Taylor)
VICARS OF CHRIST: A History of the Popes by Charles A. Coulombe (Citadel)
KARL SHAPIRO: Selected Poems (Library of America)
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MOST RECENT RIGHTS SALES
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NIGHTMARE IN WICHITA (Sony Television)
DON'T SAY YES WHEN YOU WANT TO SAY NO by Herbert Fensterheim & Jean Baer - Japanese rights to Shoiesha, Korean rights to Words & Book
LEOPARDS KILL by Jim DeFelice - Audio rights to Brilliance
LIFE IN THE FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION by Evan McGorman - British rights to Robert Hale, Ltd.
Alan Lewrie Naval Adventure series by Dewey Lambdin - Audio rights to Books on Tape, German rights to Kosel Verlag, Spanish rights to Bibliopolis
AGENT 146 - Japanese rights to Fuso, audio rights to Blackstone
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SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
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Query with proposal for non fiction, synopsis + opening 2-10 pp for fiction. Unless you are referred to us or are a published author, we normally prefer snailed queries. We reserve the right not to reply to emailed queries that do not interest us.
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SUB-AGENT FOR
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Wieser & Wieser, Inc., Wieser & Elwell, Inc., Anita Diamant Agency/Writers Workshop, Inc.
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