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agent : JAshlock@MovableTM.com
Jason Allen Ashlock
Movable Type Management
PO Box 1220, New York, NY 10185-1220
646/484.6419
646/810.5757 (fax)
646/573.9866 (mobile)
http://www.MovableTM.com
twitter: http://www.twitter.com/jasonashlock
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The Rogue Reader

Check out Movable Type's latest venture, TheRogueReader.com. Fiction from the bleeding edge.

In October 2012, Adam Chromy and Jason Allen Ashlock of MTM launched a new venture, The Rogue Reader, at Bouchercon World Mystery Conference in Cleveland, Ohio. Since then, our audience has grown to a community of thousands of readers who have helped make Ro Cuzon’s Under the Dixie Moon a Nook bestseller, a Library Journal Staff Pick for 2012, and a Spinetingler Magazine pick for best crime books of the year, and have pushed Michael Hogan’s Dog Hills to #3 in Suspense Fiction in the Kindle store.

This month we introduce our latest Rogue Mark T Conard, who truly knows noir -- he edits The Philosophy of Noir and The Philosophy of Neo-Noir for the University of Kentucky Press. Now he's taking that Noir knowledge to the streets of an iconic American city in his Philly Payback Series. Conard’s Philadelphia is full of men and women swaying between virtue and vice, waiting for the tough winter wind off the Delaware to blow them one way or the other. In Dark as Night, a young man tries to claw his way out of the mean streets, only to get sucked back into his criminal past when his brother is released from Graterford with an offer of one last job. In Killer's Coda, a brilliant psychologist assists the police as they hunt for a serial killer, but soon finds himself on the wrong side of the investigation, with no one to trust–including himself.

Read an extended sample and buy the novels, DRM-free, at The Rogue Reader

Dark as Night

Killer's Coda

Movable Type Management.

Storytelling. Across platforms, devices, territories, & generations.

Movable Type Management provides inventive and expansive management services to authors, and develops properties for distribution across platforms, devices, and territories. A bicoastal management company, MTM performs in-house film, television, and digital development, leveraging relationships with digital start-ups and veteran producers to add value to an author’s work at every opportunity.


years experience: 4
GENRES & SPECIALTIES
General fiction, Suspense/thriller, Juvenile fiction, Biography, Computers/technology, Business/investing/finance, History, Travel, Lifestyle, Cookbooks, Sports, Science, Pop Culture, Politics, Art/Illustrated, Graphic Novels
TRADE REFERENCES
If you’re looking for an agent that understands both the writer and the marketplace, then Jason Allen Ashlock is without a doubt your choice. His keen business sense and shrewd marketing abilities helped me to secure my book deal, and he continues to support my book even now--months after signing. I can’t say enough about what a pleasure it’s been to work with such a talented individual as Jason.
-- Robert Rave

As a writer who's worked with several zillion literary agents, I can say with authority that Jason Ashlock is one of the Good Ones. His communication skills are superb, he's great with follow-through, he's relentlessly optimistic and supportive, he has terrific creative instincts, and, most importantly, he always responds to text messages. Movable Type will undoubtedly be around for the long haul.
-- Alan Goldsher

If you are a great writer with a brilliant idea, Jason Allen Ashlock is who you need--a tireless agent who can navigate the shark-infested waters of the publishing world. In the last two years Jason has become more than my agent; he's a true friend who has believed in me from the start and diligently marketed my work. I am confident in stating that without Jason’s guidance, I would not have been able to realize what every author is seeking – getting published.
-- John Higham

MOST RECENT SALES/ FORTHCOMING BOOKS
Coloring for Grownups 2: The Holiday Edition (Plume)

Sex in the Museum by Sarah Forbes (St Martin's)

The Inevitable City by Scott Cowen and Betsy Seifter (Palgrave)

The Elizabeth Montgomery Magical Companion by Herbie Pilato (Taylor)

The Hip Girls Guide to the Kitchen by Kate Payne (Harper Collins)

Return to First Principles by Al From, with a Foreword by President Bill Clinton (Palgrave)

Newton's Football: The Science Behind the Modern Game by Allen St John and Ainissa Ramirez (Random House)

Kombucha: From Kombrewing to Kombeauty, Your Guide to the Kombucha Lifestyle by Eric and Jessica Childs (Gotham/Avery)

Twitch Upon a Star: The Bewitched Life and Career of Elizabeth Montgomery by Herbie Pilato (Taylor)

Benson: The Autobiography by George Benson (Da Capo)

Empire of Mud: The Hidden History of Washington D.C. by J.D. Dickey (Lyons)

An Alternate History of the World by Matthew Bucholz (Perigee)

The NYPD Tapes by Graham Rayman (Palgrave Macmillan)

Silk and Spice: Recipes from the Silk Road by Dahlia Abraham Klein (Tuttle)

Congressman Lincoln: The Making of America’s Greatest President by Chris DeRose (Threshold/S&S)

Linsanity: The Improbable Rise of Jeremy Lin by Alan Goldsher (Vook)

The Dream of Dr Bantam by Jeanne Thornton (OR Books)

Eight Weeks to Everlasting by Amy Laurent with Kristen McGuiness (St Martin's)

The Riot Within by Rodney King with Lawrence Spagnola (HarperOne)

The China Fallacy by Donald Gross (Continuum/Bloomsbury)

Martin the Guitar by Harry Musselwhite (Centerstream)

Coloring for Grown-Ups by Ryan Hunter and Taige Jensen (Plume)

A Game of Groans by George R. R. Costanza (Thomas Dunne)

Shock Ring: A Contemporary Horror Compendium (Random House)

How I Slept My Way to the Middle by Kevin Pollak (Lyons)

A Seal Upon the Heart by June McCash (Mercer)

Discordant Harmonies by Dan Botkin (Oxford)

A Creator's Guide to Transmedia Storytelling by Andrea Phillips (McGraw-Hill)

The Last Commodore: Adventure and Ambition at the Crossroads of Conquest (Lyons)

The Audacity of Hops: A Narrative History of America's Craft Beer Revolution by Tom Acitelli (Chicago Review Press)

Permanent Emergency: Inside the TSA and the Secret Battle for American Security by Kip Hawley with Nathan Means (Palgrave Macmillan)

To Have and Have Another: A Hemingway Cocktail Companion (Perigee/Penguin)

Jose Martí: A Revolutionary Life by Al Lopez (University of Texas Press)

My Favorite Fangs by Alan Goldsher (Thomas Dunne)

I Want to Be Her by Andrea Linett (Abrams)

The Unofficial Narnia Cookbook by Dinah Bucholz (Sourcebooks)

America's Hometown by Gustavo Perez Firmat (University of Texas)

Stuart Altman's The Most Impossible Task, with David Shactman (Prometheus)

Founding Rivals by Chris DeRose (Regnery)

The Rudolf Complication by Isaac Adamson (Counterpoint)

Fred and the Bin of Destiny by Monica Shaughnessy (Tricycle Press)

Lost and Found in France: A Food Lover's Memoirs and Manifesto by Gerry and Joanne Dryansky (Pegasus)

Resurgent by Ken Blackwell and Ken Klukowski (Threshold/S&S)

Founding Rivals: Madison v Monroe and the Congressional Election that Shaped the Nation by Chris DeRose (Regnery)

Life on the Hyphen: the Cuban-American Way by Gustavo Perez Firmat (University of Texas Press)

Your Best College Admissions Essay by David Dent (Ten Speed Press/Random House)

Jasmine and Fire: Culinary Adventures in a Reborn Lebanon by Salma Abdelnour (Broadway/Random House)

Can You Survive the Zombie Apocalypse? by Max Brallier (Simon & Schuster)

Waxed: A Novel by Robert Rave (St. Martin's)

Hip Girls Guide to Homemaking by Kate Payne (HarperCollins)

The Blueprint by Ken Blackwell and Ken Klukowski (Lyons Press)

DreamSight: The Thinking Person’s Dream Guide by Michael Lennox (Llewellyn)

Satan Lake by J&G Dryansky (McArthur, Canada)

Fortune´s Second Wink by J&G Dryansky (McArthur, Canada)

Icelander by Dustin Long (Asphalte, France)

Learn Something Every Day by Peter Jarvis and Gethin Vaughan (Penguin US; Hugo Et Cie, France)

Stuff Hipsters Hate by Andrea Bartz and Brenna Ehrlich (Ulysses)

A Peculiar Tribe of People: Murder and Madness in the Heart of Georgia by Rick Hutto (Globe Pequot)

The Hamptons Table by Silvia Lehrer (Running Press)

The Sacred Thread by Adrienne Arieff with Bev West (Harmony)

The Decorative Carpet by Alix Perrachon (Monacelli/Random House)

Dream On It: Solve Your Dreams, Change Your Life by Lauri Quinn Loewenberg (St. Martin’s)

Do You Dig This Gig by Laura Dodd (Kensington)

Midnight Movie by Tobe Hooper with Alan Goldsher (Three Rivers/Random House)

Little Kids, Big City: Tales from a Real House in New York City by Alex McCord and Simon van Kempen(Sterling & Ross)

The Making of the President 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972 by Theodore White (Harper)

The Chronicles of Compton by Rick Baker with Stephen Rivele (St. Martin’s)

Conversations and Cosmopolitans by Robert Rave (St. Martin’s)

MOST RECENT RIGHTS SALES
Audio Rights to Kevin Pollak's HOW I SLEPT MY WAY TO THE MIDDLE to Brilliance Audio
Calendar Rights to Pete Jarvis and Gethin Vaughan's LEARN SOMETHING EVERY DAY toIN Andrews McMeel
SPECIALIZED TRAINING, WORK EXPERIENCE, HONORS
Adjunct Professor, Publishing Certificate Program, City University of New York, City College
Literary Council, Grub Street
SUB-AGENTS/ RIGHTS CONTACTS
International Rights: Heather Baror-Shapiro at Baror International (heather@barorint.com)
KEY PERSONNEL
Jamie Brenner, Senior Manager
Mary Kole, Senior Manager
Michele Matrisciani, Senior Manager
Adam Chromy, President, Movable Type Media
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
MTM welcomes queries from writers of all kinds, and we thank you in advance for sharing your work with us. To submit your material for consideration, please first visit our website, MovableTM.com, consider the respective areas of interest and submission preferences of each of our members, then send queries by email.
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