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Regina Ryan
Regina Ryan Publishing Enterprises, Inc.
251 Central Park West 7D, New York, NY 10024
http://www.reginaryanbooks.com
twitter: http://www.twitter.com/reginaryanbooks
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I represent primarily nonfiction authors who write for the adult market. I am interested in well-written books that have something new to say, and that surprise and enlighten me. My strong editorial background -- first as an editor and later as a book packager -- is very useful in helping my authors develop their projects in the most salable way. My years of experience in the business and my extensive contacts help me to place their books with the best houses for their projects.


years experience: over 40
GENRES & SPECIALTIES
Reference, Biography, Business/investing/finance, History, Health, Travel, Lifestyle, Cookbooks, Sports, African-American, Science, Psychology, Narrative non-fiction, Food related travel and memoir, Pop culture, Memoir, Science, Natural History, Gardening, Birds and Birdwatching, Parenting, Women's issues, Architecture, Sustainability
TRADE REFERENCES
Regina Ryan is the ultimate professional as an agent. She is smart and wise, efficient, insightful, and unfailingly gracious and supportive. She is especially good at providing advice with the kind of great specificity that makes it easy for an author to know how to improve the work. I trust her completely. She knows the business and understands human nature and dynamics. In talking with other authors and editors at various houses, I have heard nothing but the most appreciative, admiring, and respectful comments. -- Paula Caplan, Ph.D.

Were it not for Regina Ryan's critical insight, her challenge to create meaningful graphics, and her gentle but firm guidance, editorial suggestions, and persistence, my book never would have been published. Thanks, Regina, for everything you have done. -- Ed Stump, Ph.D.

We had such extraordinary luck in finding Regina Ryan at the outset of our career as an author/photographer team. She brings so much skill and experience to bear in working with publishers on our behalf, and I credit our rapid advancement to her guidance. It says a great deal about Regina that our editors love her and want to work with her, even when she steps in to sort our a sticky situation or to demand more oversight for our books. I could not be happier to have her represent us." -- Randi Minetor

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"I wish that I had met Regina Ryan earlier in my career. She has a thorough knowledge of the publishing industry, and recognizes proposals that are likely to sell. We spent weeks polishing mine, and after it sold she helped me shepherd it through the writing, editing and production process. She participated in finding the "best" cover and title for the book. She is by my side now that the book is out, helping me to publicize it, and to sell subsidiary rights. Most of all you realize that, if necessary Regina would go to bat for her authors, which is very important in these uncertain times."
-- Suzanne Loebl, author America's Medicis: The Rockefellers and their Astonishing Cultural Legacy.

Let me express my admiration: I believe that your professional expertise is extraordinary and I appreciate your devotion --Michael Karpin

Regina Ryan was a believer in and skillful navigator of this project from the beginning. I am especially beholden to her. Her enthusiasm for the topic and her encouragement and perseverance were essential to the completion of this book. --Paul Holinger MD

I am grateful for my agent, Regina Ryan, who was willing to take a chance on a rookie and is the best coach ever. Susan Carrell, RN, LPC

Thank you, Regina Ryan, for your unflagging resourcefulness and quiet strength. -- Andrea Warren

We were also amazingly fortunate to work with our agent, Regina Ryan, who, in addition to doing the agent thing, turned out to be a wonderful writer and editor as well. The book benefited substantially from her editorial recommendations and her willingness to try our diet recommendations herself. -- Judith Wurtman Ph.D and Nina Frusztajer Marquis, MD.

LEADING CLIENTS
Steven Levenkron, Edmund Stump, Ph.D., Ben Watterson, Paula Caplan, Ph.D., Andrea Lyon,J.D., Andrea Warren, Judith Wurtman, Ph.D., Nina Frusztajer, MD., Andrea Warren, Michael Karpin, Suzanne von Drachenfels, Miriam Chaikin, the Estate of Edwin Shneidman,Ph.D., Ian Osborn,MD, Paul Holinger MD, William Innes Homer,Ph.D., Wayne Craven, Ph.D., Janice E. Perlman, Ph.D., Susan Carrell, R.N., Kairol Rosenthal, Randi and Nic Minetor
BEST-KNOWN PROJECTS
WHAT'S WRONG WITH MY PLANT? by David Deardorff and Kathryn Wadsworth; THE THINKER'S THESAURUS by Peter Meltzer; FAVELA: Four Decades of Living on the Edge in Rio de Janiero by Janice Perlman; ANGEL OF DEATH ROW: My Life as a Death Penalty Defense Lawyer by Andrea Lyon; THE GARDEN PRIMER by Barbara Damrosch, THE SEROTONIN POWER DIET by Judith Wurtman, Ph.D, and Nina Frusztajer, MD; EVERYTHING CHANGES: The Insider's Guide to Cancer in Your 20's and 30's by Kairol Rosenthal; TIGHTROPE: Six Centuries of a Jewish Dynasty by Michael Karpin; THE SUICIDAL MIND by Edwin Shneidman; THE HITE REPORT ON MALE SEXUALITY by Shere Hite; THE GARDEN PRIMER by Barbara Damrosch; AMERICAN ART: History and Culture by Wayne Craven; THOMAS EAKINS by William Innes Homer. WE HAVE COME A LONG WAY:A History of Women's Tennis by Billie Jean King with Cindy Starr
MOST RECENT SALES/ FORTHCOMING BOOKS
THE ROOF AT THE BOTTOM OF THE WORLD by Edmund Stump, Yale University Press;

COOKIES FOR GROWN-UPS by Kelly Cooper, Red Rock Press;

WHAT'S WRONG WITH MY FRUIT TREE? by David Deardorff and Kathryn Wadsworth, Timber Press;
WHAT'S WRONG WITH MY VEGETABLE GARDEN by David Deardorff and Kathryn Wadsworth, Timber Press;

AMERICA'S MEDICIS: The Rockefellers and their Astonishing Cultural Legacy, by Suzanne Loebl, HarperCollins;

HOW TO START A HOME-BASED PUBLIC RELATIONS BUSINESS by Randi Minetor, Globe Pequot Press

PARENTING THROUGH DIVORCE: Helping Your Child Thrive During and After Your Divorce by Lisa Rene Reynolds, Ph.D., Skyhorse Publishing;

THE THINKER'S THESAURUS by Peter Meltzer, W.W. Norton;

BACKYARD BIRDING by Randi Minetor and photographs by Nic Minetor, Globe Pequot Press;

IN SEARCH OF SACCO AND VANZETTI by Susan Tejada; University Press of New England;

DICKENS AND THE STREET CHILDREN OF LONDON by Andrea Warren, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt;

GETTYSBURG: A Timeline Tour by Randi Minetor, Globe Pequot Press

FREDERICKSBURG: A Timeline Tour by Randi Minetor, Globe Pequot Press

VICKSBURG: A Timeline Tour by Michael Sigalas, Globe Pequot Press

BEST EASY DAY HIKES Series by Randi Minetor, Globe Pequot Press

ANGEL OF DEATH ROW: My Life as a Death Penalty Defense Lawyer by Andrea Lyon, Kaplan Publishing;

WHAT'S WRONG WITH MY PLANT? (AND HOW CAN I FIX IT?)by David Deardorff and Kathryn Wadsworth, Timber Press

GILDED MANSIONS: Grand Architecture and High Society by Wayne Craven, W. W. Norton, Inc.

SCHEISSHAUS LUCK: A French Teen in Auschwitz by Pierre Berg with Brian Brock, Amacom Books

THOMAS EAKINS LETTERS FROM PARIS edited by William Innes Homer, Princeton University Press

THE SECRET OF SUCCESS IS NO SECRET by Darcy Andries, Sellers Publishing

FAVELA: A Study of Urban Poverty in Rio de Janeiro, 1968-2005 by Janice E. Perlman, Oxford University Press, 2009 (Political Science, Anthropology, Sociology)

EVERYTHING CHANGES: The Insider's Guide to Cancer in Your 20's and 30's by Kairol Rosenthal, John Wiley, 2008 (Health);

GREAT SMOKY NATIONAL PARK: and ACADIA NATIONAL PARK: FalconGuide Primers by Randi Minetor, Globe Pequot Press, 2008 (Travel)

ESCAPING TOXIC GUILT: Five Proven Steps to Free Yourself from Guilt for Good by Susan Carrell, R.N.

MOST RECENT RIGHTS SALES
Chinese Traditional Characters to AUTOPSY OF A SUICIDAL MIND by Edwin Shneidman.

Japanese rights to SURVIVING HITLER by Andrea Warren

Audio rights to SURVIVING HITLER by Andrea Warren;

Russian rights to ALEXANDRA'S SCROLL by Miriam Chaikin

Mainland Chinese rights to ARCHITECTURE AND THE AMERICAN DREAM by Craig Whitaker;

Brazilian rights to STILL A MARRIAGE by Lisa Renee Reynolds;

Taiwanese and Mainland Chinese rights to RETURN TO THE MIDDLE KINGDOM: One Family, Three Revolutionaries, and the Birth of Modern China by Yuan-tsung Chen

French and Korean rights to WHAT'S WRONG WITH MY PLANT (AND HOW DO I FIX IT?) by David Deardorff and Kathryn Wadsworth, Timber Press, 2009;

Korean, Arabic and Bulgarian rights to THE SECRET OF SUCCESS IS NO SECRET by Darcy Andries;

THE DOWRY by Walter Keady to John Hale Ltd.; movie option on MARY MCGREEVY by Walter Keady;

movie option on ORPHAN TRAIN RIDER by Andrea Warren to Mark Stephenson.

Thai rights RAISING HAPPY CHILDREN by Javad Kashani.

SPECIALIZED TRAINING, WORK EXPERIENCE, HONORS
I worked at Alfred A. Knopf, first as an editorial assistant and then as an editor. I next became editor-in-chief of Macmillan Adult Books (the first woman to hold that position in a major hardcover publishing house) and then went out on my own as a packager and agent some 35 years ago. For the last 15 years I have acted only as an agent.
Who's Who in America; Who's Who in the World; Who's Who Among American Women.
SUB-AGENTS/ RIGHTS CONTACTS
Foreign Language: Betty Anne Crawford at Books Crossing Borders, bc@bookscrossingborders.com

English Language: Caspian Dennis at Abner Stein, caspian@abnerstein.co.uk

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Send a query letter first -- by e-mail or regular mail. If we want to see the project we will ask you to send a proposal and two sample chapters by regular mail. All material should be very readable: in practice that means double spaced, 12 pt. type, printed on one side of the page and NOT bound. If you do not have an e-mail address, enclose an SASE if you want a reply.

For fiction queries, please send:
-overview and first 50 pages in the body of the e-mail
-author's biodata (including education, previous publications, experience, etc.)