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Michelle Tessler
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Tessler Literary Agency, LLC
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Tessler Literary Agency is a full-service boutique agency. We represent a select number of best-selling and emerging authors.
Based in the Flatiron District of Manhattan, we are dedicated to writers of high quality fiction and non-fiction. Our clients include accomplished journalists, scientists, academics, experts in their field, as well as novelists and debut authors with unique voices and stories to tell. We value fresh, original writing that has a compelling point of view.
Our list is diverse and far-reaching. In non-fiction, it includes narrative, popular science, memoir, history, psychology, business, biography, food, and travel. In many cases, we sign authors who are especially adept at writing books that cross many of these categories at once. In fiction, we represent literary, women's, and commercial. We do not take on genre fiction or children's books.
We build careers and advocate for our authors at every stage of the publishing process— helping conceptualize and shape the initial idea, offering editorial feedback before submission, aggressively negotiating the contract, selling film and translation rights, and conceiving of publicity and marketing strategies that will give the book the best chance of reaching a wide audience.
We handle all domestic, UK, foreign, and subsidiary rights for our clients—including film and television, audio, and eformats.
The agency was formed in 2004 by Michelle Tessler, who previously worked at the prestigious literary agency Carlisle & Company (now Inkwell Management) and at the William Morris Agency.
A native New Yorker, Michelle has a Master's Degree in English literature and is a member of the Association of Author's Representatives.
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years experience: 13
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GENRES & SPECIALTIES
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Popular Science, Reportage, Narrative, Memoir, History, Biography, Psychology, Business, Travel, Sports, Literary Fiction, Women's Fiction
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LEADING CLIENTS
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Non-fiction: Paul Collins, Frans de Waal, Tom de Zengotita, Katherine Ellison, Leanne Ely, Susan Freinkel, Adam Gollner, Taras Grescoe, Nathan Hodge, Hannah Holmes, Scott Huler, Edward Kohn, Kelly Lambert, Stacy Perman, Gary Andrew Poole, Andrew Potter, Siohban Roberts, Jeanne Safer, PhD, Michael Schuman, Amy Stewart, Margaret Wertheim, David Sloan Wilson, Guy Winch
Fiction: Jennifer Paddock, Caroline Paul, Brian Shawver, Kevin Shay, Amanda Eyre Ward
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BEST-KNOWN PROJECTS
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- WICKED PLANTS and WICKED BUGS by Amy Stewart (Algonquin) - New York Times Bestsellers
- BODY CLUTTER by Marla Cilley (aka The Flylady) and Leanne Ely (aka The Dinner Diva) (Touchstone) - A New York Times Bestseller
- PRESIDENTIAL DOODLES from the creators of Cabinet Magazine (Basic)
- A SLAVE IN THE WHITE HOUSE- A New York Times Bestseller (Palgrave)
- A SENSE OF THE WORLD: The Extraordinary Journeys of James Holman by Jason Roberts (HarperCollins) - Finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle Award
- THE MURDER OF THE CENTURY: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City & Sparked the Tabloid Wars by Paul Collins (Crown)
- HOW TO BE LOST by Amanda Eyre Ward (MacAdam Cage/Ballantine)
- THE FRUIT HUNTERS: Inside the Fruit Underworld by Adam Gollner (Scribners)
- QUIRK: Brain Science Makes Sense of Your Peculiar Personality by Hannah Holmes (Random House)
- STRAPHANGER: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile by Taras Grescoe (Times Books)
- SAVING DINNER by Leanne Ely (Ballantine)
- BUZZ: A Year of Paying Attention by Katherine Ellison (Hyperion Voice)
- THE AGE OF EMPATHY: Nature's Lesson for a Kinder Society by Frans de Waal (Harmony)
- MEDIATED by Thomas de Zengotita (Bloomsbury)
- DEFINING THE WIND: The Beaufort Scale and How a 19th-Century Admiral Turned Science into Poetry by Scott Huler (Crown)
- SINK REFLECTIONS by Marla Cilley (aka The Flylady) (Bantam)
- THE NEIGHBORHOOD PROJECT by David Sloan Wilson (Little, Brown)
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MOST RECENT SALES/ FORTHCOMING BOOKS
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- UNDERWATER DOGS by Seth Casteel (Little, Brown)
- CONFUCIUS by Michael Schuman (Basic)
- VISIT SUNNY CHERNOBYL by Andrew Blackwell (Rodale)
- THE BONOBO AND THE ATHEIST by Frans de Waal (Norton)
- EMOTIONAL FIRST-AID by Guy Winch, PhD (Hudson Street Books)
- THE CHEMISTRY BETWEEN US by Larry Young PhD and Brian Alexander (Current/Penguin)
- THE DRUNKEN BOTANIST by Amy Stewart (Algonquin)
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SPECIALIZED TRAINING, WORK EXPERIENCE, HONORS
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In addition to her agenting experience, Michelle worked as an executive of business development and marketing in the Internet industry. In 1994, just as the Internet was becoming a mainstream medium, she was hired by best-selling author James Gleick to help launch The Pipeline. She then went on to serve as Vice President of New Media at Jupiter Communications, and later at ScreamingMedia, before returning to traditional publishing.
In light of the digital opportunities that are transforming publishing, Michelle's experience in the Internet world is of great benefit to her authors, both as they navigate ebook and app opportunities, and as they look for creative and effective ways to market their books to niche communities that can be targeted online via social media.
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SUB-AGENTS/ RIGHTS CONTACTS
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Translation rights are sold directly in association with: Andrew Nurnberg Associates in Western and Eastern Europe, China and Latin America; Tuttle Mori in Japan and Thailand; Eric Yang Agency in Korea; the Kayi Agency in Turkey; Read n' Right in Greece; and the Deborah Harris Agency in Israel.
We work non-exclusively with a variety of Hollywood-based agents for the placement of film, television and documentary rights.
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SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
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Please submit initial queries via the webform at www.tessleragency.com.
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