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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. He represents clients in the areas of sports, true crime, military, history and other nonfiction as well as thrillers, mysteries and other commercial fiction.
LEADING CLIENTS
Jim DeFelice, John Douglas & Mark Olshaker, Bill Yenne, Carl Alasko, Dewey Lambdin, Charles Coulombe, The Weekly World News, William Goyen estate, Douglas C. Jones estate, Karl Shapiro estate
BEST-KNOWN PROJECTS
THE HELIOS CONSPIRACY by Jim DeFelice (Tor)
GANGSTER SQUAD by Paul Lieberman (Thomas Dunne Books)
FIRST TO KILL by Andrew Peterson
EMOTIONAL BULLSHIT by Carl Alasko (Tarcher)
THE BASEBALL WORLD OF WILLARD MULLIN by Hal Bock (Fantagraphics)
HAP ARNOLD by Bill Yenne (Regnery)
ROLE OF A LIFETIME by James "JB" Brown (FaithWords)
NIGHTMARE IN WICHITA: The Hunt for the BTK Strangler by Robert Beattie (N.A.L.)
THE CARD: Collectors, Con Men, and the True Story of History's Most Desired Baseball Card by Michael O'Keeffe and Teri Thompson (Morrow)
DALE BROWN'S DREAMLAND series with Jim DeFelice
Alan Lewrie Naval Adventure series by Dewey Lambdin
"Confidential" higher-ed series by Robert H. Miller
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
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.