Andrea Somberg, previously an agent at Vigliano Associates and the Don Maass Agency, joined Harvey Klinger Inc. in the spring of 2005. She handles both fiction and non-fiction, including literary, commercial, young adult, genre (romance, mystery, sf/fantasy) memoir, pop-culture, how-to, self-help, humor, interior design, cookbooks, and health & fitness.

Harvey Klinger, Inc. began as a one-man, one office literary agency in October, 1977. Over the years, it has grown and expanded, and is widely recognized as among the top boutique literary agencies in the publishing industry.

Recent deals include:
NONFICTION:
Devin and Cameron Lazerine's Unrapped: The Rap-Up Guide to Hip-Hop and R&B (Grand Central/Warner)
Lena Katz's Travel Temptation series (Globe Pequot/Lyons, fc)
Shari Storm's Tantrums, Timeouts and Other Office Tactics: How Motherhood is the Perfect Management Training (Thomas Dunne, fc)
Founder of Little Laureate and BabyGizmo.com, Heather Maclean's The Baby Gizmo Buying Guide - Rutledge Hill/Thomas Nelson
Studmuffins: Luscious, Delectable, Yummy - and Good Muffin Recipes, Too! (Lyons/GlobePequot)
Diane Kress's The Metabolism Miracle: A Revolutionary, Proven Diet Program to Overcome Insulin Resistance and Lose Weight Permanently (Da Capo, fc)
Jim Thompson's The Cubicle Survival Guide (Random House)
Kent Sayre's Unstoppable Confidence (McGraw Hill)
Eva Nagorski's The Down & Dirty Dish on Revenge (Thomas Dunne, fc)
Marcelle Karp and Pauline Wall's Knitchicks (F&W, fc)
Meaghan Mountford's Cookie Sensations: Creative Design for Every Occasion (Rutledge Hill)
Cecil Hayes' 9 Steps to Beautiful Living (Watson-Guptill)
Celebrity Dog Trainer and top Dog Stunt Team, Kyra Sundance's The Dog Rules: 14 Secrets to Shaping A Well-Behaved and Loving Dog (Touchstone/Fireside, fc)

Memoirs
McSweeney's writer Scott Douglas's Quiet Please, a memoir chronicling the humorous, touching, and bizarre adventures of a 20-something year old public librarian (Da Capo)
Claire Lewis's Exposed: Confessions of a Wedding Photographer (Thomas Dunne)
Troy Johnson's Family Outing (Arcade)
Clarissa McNair's Detectives Don't Wear Seatbelts (Center Street/Grand Central, fc)
Carly Milne's Sexography (Phoenix)
Lyla Ward's How to Succeed In Aging Without Really Dying (Arcade, fc)
Josh Dasal's The Utopia Book: A Curious Outsider's Misadventures in American Shangri-La (Tarcher/Penguin, fc)

FICTION
Rachel Keener's debut, The Killing Tree (Center Street/Grand Central, fc)
Paula Jolin's young adult novel, In the Name of God (Roaring Brook, March '07) and Three Witches (Roaring Brook, Fall of '08)
Sarah Beth Durst's middle grade debut Into the Wild (Razorbill/Penguin)
Justine Musk's urban fantasy BloodAngel (ROC/Penguin) and YA thriller, Uninvited (Pocket/MTV Books)
Mitchell Bartoy's noir mystery, The Devil's Own Ragdoll (St. Martins)
Paula Quinn's Laird of the Mist (Warner/Grand Central)
Monica Jackson's Aces High (Kimani, fc)
Jennifer Lewis's Hardcastle Series (Silhouette, fc)

Andrea Somberg
Harvey Klinger Inc.
300 W. 55th St. Suite 11V
New York, NY 10019
andrea@harveyklinger.com

I'm always on the look out for new clients. E-queries are preferred and will get you the quickest response. Please send along your query letter along with the first five pages of the project to andrea@harveyklinger.com.