Publishers Marketplace: Jason Allen Ashlock

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.

Formed by the merger of Artists and Artisans and the Movable Type Literary Group in the late summer of 2011, MTM manages a rich talent community, and specializes in offering authors customized service and offering publishers properties of utmost value.

Jason Allen Ashlock, founder and principal of Movable Type Literary Group, will serve as President of Movable Type Management, developing book and digital properties. At Movable Type Literary Group, Ashlock lead the company to more than 60 deals in its first two years, and has overseen a number of digital rights initiatives, including a multi-author partnership with INscribe Digital, the production of enhanced ebooks with Vook, and sales of innovative digital properties such as the serial ebook anthology Shock Ring to Random House Digital.

Adam Chromy, founder and principal of Artists and Artisans, will serve as President of Movable Type Media, the performance arm of MTM. Chromy founded Artists and Artisans a decade ago, and has led the company to hundreds of book deals at major publishing houses, many of which have become international and New York Times Bestsellers, among them James Howard Kunstler’s The Long Emergency and most recently Steven Adler’s My Appetite for Destruction. He has set up a number of performance packages with Mosaic Media Group (Please Fire Me), Valhalla Pictures (Your So-Called Life) and a pilot deal at USA Network with Berman Braun for David Ellis Dickerson’s memoir House of Cards.

The company's Senior Managers include Jamie Brenner, Brianne Mulligan and Michele Matrisciani. Brenner, who will primarily focus on literary and commercial fiction, worked in online bookselling at Barnes and Noble and publicity at Harper Collins prior to becoming an agent. Mulligan, who will manage mostly middle grade and young adult authors, has worked in editorial at Razorbill, Gotham, and Broadway. Matrisciani, who will handle primarily prescriptive and narrative nonfiction, was for the last five years editorial director of HCI books, after working in editorial at McGraw-Hill and Hyperion.