Starting in June 2010, I am now officially running my own agency, the G Agency, LLC. I have previously worked at the JCA Literary Agency for 17 years and for the last 5 have been affiliated with the Gina Maccoby Literary Agency.

I am interested in commercial and literary fiction, as well as serious non-fiction and pop culture. My focus as an agent has always been on working with writers to shape their work for its greatest commercial potential. I provide lots of editorial advice in sharpening manuscripts and proposals before submission.

I've been a member of the Royalty Committee of the Association of Authors Representatives since its founding and am always keen to challenge publishers for their willfully obscure royalty reporting. Also I have recently taken over the position of Treasurer of the A.A.R.

My publishing background includes working at the University of California Press so I am always intrigued by academic subjects which are given a commercial spin to reach an audience outside academia. I've also worked as a foreign scout for publishers like Hodder & Stoughton in England and Wilhelm Heyne in Germany, which gives me a good sense of how American books can be successfully translated overseas.

Fiction: Ernest J. Gaines, Guneli Gun, David Heinzmann, Gwen Hunter, Jessie Prichard Hunter, Peter King, Nicholas Nicastro, William Rabkin, Fran Rizer, Elena Santangelo

Non-Fiction: Kenneth Ackerman, Mustafa Akyol, James Arnold, Paul Cobb, Fred Donner, Ed Girardet, Douglas Hunter, Ussama Makdisi, Ted McClelland, National Society of Film Critics, Nicholas Nicastro, Mark Pegg, Tim Parsons, Paul Pillar, Philip Pomper, Else Poulsen, Harold Lee Wise, Gordon Young

A LESSON BEFORE DYING by Ernest J. Gaines (Oprah selection, #1 NYT best-seller, and Emmy Award-winning HBO movie)
LINE OF VISION by David Ellis (Edgar Award winner for Best First Novel)
BOSS TWEED by Kenneth Ackerman
PYRES by Derek Nikitas (Edgar Award nominee for Best First Novel)
SHADOW VALLEY by Gwen Hunter (Mary Higgins Clark Award nominee)
BY BLOOD POSSESSED by Elena Santangelo (Agatha Award nominee for Best First Novel)

KILLING THE CRANES by Edward Girardet(Chelsea Green)
ISLAM WITHOUT EXTREMES by Mustafa Akyol (Norton)
THE RACE TO THE NEW WORLD by Douglas Hunter (Palgrave)
INTELLIGENCE AND US FOREIGN POLICY by Paul Pillar (Columbia UP)
TRANSFORMING DARKNESS TO LIGHT by Travis Vining (Bella Rosa)
FAITH MISPLACED: The Broken Promise of US-Arab Relations by Ussama Makdisi (Public Affairs)
DRINKING ARAK OFF AN AYATOLLAH'S BEARD by Nick Jubber (DaCapo)
THE RULE OF EMPIRES by Tim Parsons (Oxford)
THE UNWRITTEN RULES: The 6 Skills You Need to Get Promoted to the Executive Level (Jossey-Bass)
OBAMA: CHICAGO AND THE MAKING OF A BLACK PRESIDENT, Ted McClelland (Bloomsbury)
MUHAMMAD AND THE BELIEVERS, Fred Donner (Harvard UP)
PRESUMED DEAD, Henry Lee (Berkley)
LENIN'S BROTHER, Philip Pomper (Norton)
WORD TO THE WISE, David Heinzmann (Five Star)
A JUNGLE OF SNAKES by James Arnold (Bloomsbury)
ENEMIES OF GOD by Paul Cobb (Oxford UP)
A MOST HOLY WAR by Mark Gregory Pegg (Oxford UP)
YOUNG J. EDGAR by Kenneth Ackerman (Carroll & Graf)
CIRCUMFERENCE by Nicholas Nicastro (St. Martin's)
SLEEP SOFTLY by Gwen Hunter (Mira)
CASKET CASE by Fran Rizer (Berkley)
THE HOLLYWOOD GUIDE TO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA'S GREAT OUTDOORS by Harry Medved (St. Martin's)
THE B LIST by National Society of Film Critics (DaCapo)
FEAR ITSELF by Elena Santangelo (Bella Rosa)
BEIRUT THUNDER by Harold Lee Wise (Naval Institute Press)
SMILING BEARS by Else Poulsen (Graystone)
100 THINGS DODGER FANS SHOULD KNOW AND DO BEFORE THEY DIE by Jon Weisman (Triumph)
PSYCH: MIND OVER MAGIC by William Rabkin (NAL)

Italian, Chinese, Turkish, and Arabic rights to Ernest Gaines' A LESSON BEFORE DYING.
Dutch rights to Gwen Hunter's BETRAYAL to Bruna.
Japanese & Korean rights to Peter King's GOURMET DETECTIVE series,
Italian, Turkish, Greek & Spanish rights to Nicastro's THE ISLE OF STONE & ANTIGONE'S WAKE,
film rights to Ackerman's BOSS TWEED & THE GOLD RING and to Peter King's THE GOURMET DETECTIVE mystery series.

E-mail submissions preferred - attach sample chapters or proposal if you wish. USE THIS ADDRESS FOR QUERIES: gagencyquery@gmail.com. Enter "QUERY" along with the title in the subject line of e-mails or on the envelope of snail mails. NO screenplays, sci-fi/fantasy or romance. PLEASE NOTE: I am highly overloaded and cannot guarantee replies to every submission though I do try. E-mail gets priority and snail mail languishes. If you do not hear from me the first time, you may send me one reminder. I encourage all writers to submit to lots of agents simultaneously so don't sit around waiting for my reply!