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I look for the cream within this milk-jug of a profession. I have limited time and therefore want writers that are preferably experienced and are willing to listen to productive critiques of their work.

I love old fashioned story telling in the mode of a Biggers, Conan Doyle, Rohmer, Haggard, Kipling, Bourroughs and Stevenson. More recently, E. Peters, the pre-born again Anne Rice, Hillerman, Laurie King and Childs. Look to these authors with a creative current-thinking attitude and you'll have something.

20 Plus years within the publishing industry in virtually all areas including, editorial, product development, sales, rep management, fulfillment and distribution. I've been a VP and Controller at major and minor imprints, Publisher, and GM of business books and a writer and entrepreneur. All these things make for an agent that looks to commercial projects with a strong literary attitude.

Current list of authors includes Franklin Award winning novelist and creator of a new line of Fu Manchu Mysteries for and from the 21st Century, Richard Sand; with 37 million copies sold to date, renowned lifestyle and nutrition guru, radio talk-show host, and health/vegitarian advocate Gary Null; NYT Best Selling Author Norman Bogner; published Ph.D. Kristine Bertini; biographer and thriller writer Ian O'Conner; noted business author William J. Morin; Thriller writer Roger Whitlock; million selling author of true crime and adult fiction, Ken Hurwitz; historical fiction writer KJ Fay; music producer and best selling entertainment biographer Jake Brown; Memoirist and Number 2 performer in the adult entertainment industry, Jasmin St. Claire; Graphic Novelist Tad Pietrzykowski; thriller novelist John Trudel; the late reknowned Hollywood and London Producer/legend Harry Alan Towers; creator of dark urban fiction, Andre Duza; Teen genius and adventure writer Alex Welton and many more.

Sax Rohmer projects, the works of Kristine Bertini, Ph.D., Driving the Career Highway by Janice Reals Ellig and William J. Morin, Parting Company by William Morin and Tim Morin, Silent Sabotage by William Morin, Foreign sales by such authors as Dr. Robert Atkins, Charles Berlitz, Richard Doetch, Jerry Steinberg, Martin Greenberg and others.

Understanding and Preventing Suicide by Dr. Kristine Bertini to Praeger Books; Parting Company by William and Timothy Morin to Career Press; Blood Redeemed, a Lucas Rook Mystery by Richard Sand to Durban Books; Strength for the Sandwich Generation by Dr. Kristine Bertini to ABC-Clio. The New Fu Manchu in the 21st Century series by Richard Sand; My Para-Normal Life by Lisa Rogers; The Confessions of the Panther Woman by Mischa K.K. Bagley; Fatal Incision by William Park, Sr.; What the Hell was I Thinking by Jasmin St. Claire, and many more.

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A Thriller Pioneer, the incomparable Sax Rohmer
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Contributed to THE BIG THRILL by Albert T. Longden

Sax Rohmer...a name to conjure when evoking literary icon's of the last century. Creator of one of the most enduring, if not endearing characters of all time, the first true "super-villain", Dr. Fu Manchu. Some Holmesian adherents might argue that Dr. Moriarty occupies that niche, but Moriarty for all his genius never created an "elixir of life" or genetically altered spiders and fungi. This one creation, the insidious Dr. Fu Manchu, has influenced a myriad of writers and characters over the years. We can easily see the parallels between "Fu" and Ian Fleming's Dr. No or the wonderful Ming the Merciless from Flash Gordon. Indeed, Earl Derr Biggers created Charlie Chan, in part because of the fame of the "Devil Doctor" Biggers, feeling there needed to be an Asian hero to counterbalance Rohmer's creation.
Rohmer's creativity was extensive as was his personal interest in Egyptology, Sorcery, the Occult, and all things Oriental (in his day, anything east of Athens). His creations included the wonderful Dream Detective, Morris Klaw; renowned investigator of the Occult, Paul Harley; Red Kerry of Scotland Yard, the indescribably unscrupulous beauty Sumuru and numerous investigators, detectives, and commissioners; international spy chasers; and, an impressive array of dacoits, lascars, henchmen and overactive crime lords. In fact the infamous Dr. Fu Manchu was modeled after a very real turn of the century Limehouse criminal boss named Mr. King.

A little secret for those of you not totally familiar with Sax Rohmer's works, is that he is the creator of some of the most intriguingly described women of his or any other day. His descriptions are magical in their simplicity and certainly highlight Sax's penchant for exotic and beautiful women. Picture Keira Knightley, Natalie Portman, Angelina Jolie, or Gwyneth Paltrow to name a few and you've hit upon some of his most alluring, strong-willed, independent damsels in the annals of early 20th Century literature and this does not include the wonderful array of exotic, easterners who frequent nearly every story, be they victim or perpetrator. My personal favorite of these wonderful women characters is the marvelous heroine of White Velvet, originally scripted in screenplay form by Sax for Marlene Dietrich.

A literary giant and one of the biggest selling authors of the last century, Rohmer's writing career was marked by a number of fits and starts as he wandered from newspaper reporting to play writing and producing, to perfume manufacturing, to magazine serializations, to, finally, full length novels. This nearly sixteen year process finally convinced the easily distracted Sax to focus on novels and on his franchise: Fu Manchu. Sax Rohmer, one of the true greats of pulp fiction and an early crafter of our beloved Thriller genre.

Al Longden is the Principal of Albert T. Longden Associates, a literary agency and has represented various celebrities and authors including NYT Bestselling author's Norman Bogner and Doris Parmett; Pinnacle profiled author and business leader William J. Morin; Franklin Award winner Richard Sand; award winning actor Jack Klugman; renowned actor, director and producer Robert Hooks; famed B-movie producer Harry Alan Towers and numerous others. In his career Mr. Longden has been an entrepreneur, publisher and executive in the publishing, service and new media industries.

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