Client List
ABEL, Kenneth
Novelist, author of Bait (Delacorte, Dell, BOMC, 1994), The Blue Wall (Delacorte, Dell 1996), Cold Steel Rain (Putnam’s, 2000). The Burying Field (Putnam’s 2002). Down In The Flood (Thomas Dunne/St. Martin’s Press, 2009) http://us.macmillan.com/author/kennethabel
ALFIERI, Gus
Author of Cast A Giant Shadow: Joe Lapchick and the Golden Days of New York City Basketball (Lyons Press, 2006). www.lapchickthebook.com
ANGELL, Jeannette
Author of Callgirl (Permanent Press/HarperCollins), Madam (Permanent Press). www.jeannetteangell.com
BELSKY, Richard
Journalist and novelist, author of seven novels including the Mourning Show (Berkley), Loverboy (Avon, 1996) Playing Dead (Avon, 1999). New novel: Forget Me Not
BRANDT, Anthony
Magazine writer (Esquire, Playboy, GQ, NY Times Magazine, Atlantic, Men’s Journal, etc.). Author of Reality Police: The Experience of Insanity in America (William Morrow). The Man Who Ate His Boots: Sir John Franklin and the Tragic History of the Northwest Passage (Knopf, 2010).
BRUEN, Ken
Novelist, author Funeral: Tales of Irish Morbidities (1991), Martyrs (1994), Shades of Grace (1993), Sherry and Other Stories (1994), All the Old Songs and Nothing to Lose (1994), The Time of Serena-May & Upon the Third Cross, (1994): collected and reprinted by Busted Flush Press in A Fifth of Bruen, 2006. Brant novels: A White Arrest (1998) Taming the Alien (2000) The McDead (2000): collected and published by Justin Charles, Co. in A White Trilogy (re-print by SMP, 2010); Blitz (St. Martin’s Press, 2002), Vixen (SMP, 2003), Calibre (SMP, 2006), Ammunition (SMP, 2007) & the Jack Taylor novels: The Guards (2001), The Killing of the Tinkers (2002), The Magdalen Martyrs (SMP, 2003), The Dramatist (2004), Priest (SMP, 2006), Cross (SMP, 2007), Sanctuary (SMP, 2009) Stand-alone novels: Rilke on Black (1997, reprinted by Five Star, 2005), The Hackman Blues (1997), Her Last Call to Louis MacNeice (Five Star, 2005), London Boulevard (SMP, 2010), Dispatching Baudelaire (Sitric Books, 2004), American Skin (Justin, Charles, 2006), Once Were Cops (SMP, 2008), Tower (w/ Reed Farrel Coleman) (Busted Flush Press, 2009). www.kenbruen.com
*BURKE, Alafair
Novelist, Judgment Calls (Henry Holt, 2003). Missing Justice (Holt, 2004). Close Case (Holt, 2005), Dead Connection (Henry Holt, 2007), Angel’s Tip (HarperCollins, 2008), 212 (HarperCollins, 2010). www.alafairburke.com
BURKE, James Lee
Novelist and short-story writer, author of Half of Paradise (Houghton Mifflin, Hyperion), To The Bright And Shining Sun (Scribner, Hyperion), Lay Down My Sword And Shield (Crowell; Hyperion; Pocket Books, 2010), Two For Texas (Pocket Books), The Convict And Other Stories (LSU Press; Little, Brown; Pocket Books), The Lost Get-Back Boogie (LSU Press), The Neon Rain (Holt & Co; Pocket Books), Heaven’s Prisoners (Holt, Pocket Books), Black Cherry Blues (Little, Brown; Avon; Edgar Award for the best mystery novel of 1989), A Morning For Flamingos (Little, Brown; Avon), A Stained White Radiance (Hyperion, Avon), In The Electric Mist With Confederate Dead (Hyperion; Avon; Pocket), Dixie City Jam (Hyperion, 1994), Burning Angel (Hyperion, 1995), Cadillac Jukebox (Hyperion, 1996), Cimarron Rose (Hyperion, 1997, winner of Edgar Award), Sunset Limited (Doubleday, 1998, Dell, l999, winner of England’s Golden Dagger Award for Best Novel of l998), Heartwood (Doubleday, 1999, Bantam Dell 2000), Purple Cane Road (Doubleday, 2000; Bantam Dell, 2001). Bitterroot (Simon & Schuster, 2001), Jolie Blon’s Bounce (S & S, 2002), White Doves at Morning (S & S, 2002). Last Car to Elysian Fields (S & S, 2003). In the Moon of Red Ponies (S & S, 2004), Crusader’s Cross (S&S, 2005). Pegasus Descending (S & S, 2006), The Tin Roof Blowdown (S&S, 2007), Swan Peak (S&S, 2008), Rain Gods (S&S, 2009). www.jamesleeburke.com
BURKE, Jan
Novelist, author of Goodnight, Irene (S&S/Avon), Sweet Dreams, Irene (S&S/ Avon), Dear Irene (S & S/Avon), Remember Me, Irene (S&S/Harper Paperbacks), Hocus (S& S/Harper Paperbacks), Liar (S&S/Harper), Bones (S&S/NAL; winner of 2000 Edgar Award), Flight (S&S, 2001; Pocket Books, 2002); Nine (S & S, 2003). Bloodlines (S & S, 2004); Kidnapped (S & S, 2006), The Messenger (S&S, 2009) www.janburke.com
CEZANNE, Jeannette
Nonfiction: Open Your Heart with Reading (Dreamtime Pub.), Open Your Heart with Geocaching (Dreamtime Pub.). First novel on submission: In Dark Woods. www.jeannettecezanne.com
*CONNELLY, Michael
Former L.A. Times writer and novelist, author of The Black Echo (Little, Brown, St. Martin’s Paperbacks; Edgar Award for best first mystery novel, 1992) The Black Ice (Little, Brown, SMP), The Concrete Blonde (Little, Brown, SMP), The Last Coyote (Little, Brown, SMP, BOMC), The Poet (Little, Brown, Warner Books, Literary Guild), Trunk Music (Little, Brown, SMP, Main Selection BOMC), 1998: Blood Work (Little, Brown; Main Selection, Literary Guild, nominated for Edgar Award for Best Novel), Angel’s Flight (Little, Brown, 1999; Main Selection, Literary Guild), Void Moon (Little, Brown, 2000; Warner Books, 2000). A Darkness More Than Night (Little, Brown, 2001; Warner Books 2002), City of Bones (Little, Brown; 2002, WB2003), Chasing the Dime (Little, Brown 2002, WB 2003), Lost Light (Little, Brown; 2003, WB 2004). The Narrows (Little, Brown, 2004), The Closers (Little, Brown; 2005, Grand Central Publishg 2006), The Lincoln Lawyer (LB 2005, GCP 2006). Crime Beat (Little, Brown, 2006, GCP 2007). Echo Park (Little, Brown 2006, GCP 2007). The Overlook (Little, Brown; 2007, GCP, 2008). The Brass Verdict (Little, Brown, 2008, GCP 2009), The Scarecrow (Little, Brown; May 2009, GCP 2010), Nine Dragons (LB, Oct. 2009, GCP 2010). www.michaelconnelly.com
CORWIN, Miles
The Killing Season: A Summer Inside an LAPD Homicide Division (Ballantine, 1997), And Still We Rise: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City Students (Morrow, 2001) Homicide Special: A Year with the LAPD's Elite Detective Unit (Henry Holt, 2004), Kind of Blue (Oceanview Publishing, a novel, 2010).
DAHLBY, Tracy
Journalist, documentary filmmaker, author of Allah’s Torch: A Report from behind the Scenes in Asia’s War on Terror (Morrow, 2005).
DAVIS, Kevin
Author of The Wrong Man (novel, Avon, 1995). Defending the Damned (nonfiction, Atria Books, 2007). www.kevinadavis.com
DELANEY, Edward J.
Author of the short-story collection The Drowning & Other Stories (Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1999) and the novel Warp & Weft (Permanent Press, 2004). His work has appeared regularly in The Atlantic Monthly, as well as in the O. Henry Prize and Best American Short Stories annuals. His novel received the 2005 PEN/L.L. Winship Award in Fiction, and a segment of it originally appeared in The Atlantic in 2001. His work has been performed on NPR’s Selected Shorts, and has been a finalist for The National Magazine Award.
Novel on submission: Dirty Irish
DOLD, Gaylord
Author of a dozen mystery/suspense novels, including The World Beat (St. Martin’s Press) Bay of Sorrows (SMP, 1995), Schedule Two (SMP, 1996), The Devil To Pay, (SMP, 1999), Six White Horses (St, Martin’s, 2002), Storm 33 (Sourcebooks, 2003).
DOUGLAS, Geoffrey
Nonfiction writer, author of CLASS: The Wreckage of an American Family (Holt, 1992), DEAD OPPOSITE: The Lives and Loss of Two American Boys, (Holt, 1994), The Game of Their Lives (Holt, 1996, Avon 2004). CLASSMATES: St. Paul’s Class of 1962 (Hyperion, 2008).
DUBUS Andre (Estate of)
Author of The Lieutenant (novel, Dial Press), and Voices From The Moon (novel, Godine, Crown). Stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Playboy, Harper’s, literary quarterlies and anthologies. Short story collections: Separate Flights (Godine), Finding a Girl in America (Godine), The Times Were Never So Bad (Godine), Dancing After Hours (Knopf, 1996). Essay collections: Broken Vessels (Godine), Meditations From A Moveable Chair (Knopf, 1998).
DUBUS Andre III
Short story writer and novelist, author of The Cage Keeper And Other Stories (Dutton, NAL), Bluesman (novel, Faber & Faber), House of Sand And Fog (Norton 1999, Vintage, 2000; National Book Award Finalist, L.A. Times Book Award Finalist). The Garden of Last Days (Norton, June 2008).
DUNBAR, Wylene
Novelist, author of Margaret Cape (Harcourt, 1997), My Life with Corpses (Harcourt, 2004)
FERRELL, David
Journalist (L. A. Times) and author of Screwball (William Morrow (2003). New novel on submission: The Buzzards of Mayhem. www.davidferrell.com
FRANCISCO, Ruth
Author of Confessions of a Deathmaiden (Mysterious Press, 2003). Good Morning, Darkness (Mysterious Press, 2004). The Secret Memoirs of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (St. Martin’s Press, 2005). New novel on submission: Buraq’s Flight
GAGNON, Michelle
Author of The Gatekeeper (Mira, November 2009). www.michellegagnon.com
GRANGER, Farley
Author of Count Me Out (with Robert Calhoun), a memoir (St. Martin’s Press, 2007).
GREENSIDE, Mark
Author of I’ll Never Be French (Free Press, non-fiction, 2008).
HARRINGTON, Kent
Author of The Good Physician (Dennis Macmillan Publication, 2008), Red Jungle (DMP, 2005), Dia De los Muertos (Capra Press, 2003), The American Boys (DMP, 2000), The Dark Ride (St. Martin’s Press, 1997). New novel on submission: Satellite Circus. www.kentharrington.com
HAYWOOD, Gar Anthony
Novelist, who is the award-winning author of the Aaron Gunner series: Fear of The Dark, Not Long For This World, You Can Die Trying, It’s Not A Pretty Sight, When Last Seen Alive; The Joe Dottie Londermilk Series: Going Nowhere Fast, Bad News Travels Fast; Two pseudonymous written stand-alones, as Ray Shannon: Maneater, Firecracker (Putnams’s/Penguin). New novel: Cemetery Road (Severn House, 2010). www.garanthonyhaywood.com
HILL, Sam
Business consultant, author of Radical Marketing (with Glenn Rifkin) (HarperCollins, l999) and The Infinite Asset: Managing Brands to Build New Value (Harvard Business School Press, 2000). Sixty Trends in Sixty Minutes (Wiley, 2003). Buzz Monkey, novel, Otto Penzler Books (2003). Buzz Riff (Carroll & Graf, 2005). Novel on submission: Buzz Angel www.samhillonline.com
ISSACSON, Ken
Author of SILENT COUNSEL (Windermere Press, Inc. 2007). New novel on submission: DEATH BENEFIT.
*KING, Jonathon
Former jounalist, novelist, author of The Blue Edge of Midnight, novel (Dutton, 2002, NAL 2003, Edgar Award for Best First Novel). A Visible Darkness (Dutton, 2003), Shadow Men (Dutton, 2004). A Killing Night (Dutton, 2005), Eye of Vengeance (Dutton, 2006), Acts of Nature (Dutton, 2007), The Styx (Middle River Press, 2009). www.jonathonking.com
KLEIN, Matthew
Novelist, author of Con Ed (Grand Central Publishing, 2007, UK/ Orion Books, France/ Le Seuil, The Netherlands/Uitgeverij De Fontein, Spain/Ediciones Urano, Turkey/April Publishing, Brazil/ Editora Sariava, Bulgaria/ Bard Publishing House, Japan/Hayakawaya), Switchback (UK/Orion Books,, Russia/Amphora Publishers, France/Edition Du Seuil, Spain/Ediciones Urano, The Netherlands/Uitgeverij De Fontein, Norway/Schibsted Forlagene AS; Poland/Albatros Wydawnictwo, Norway: Schibsted Forlagene AS, Portugal/ Editorial Estampa, China (Simplified)/ Qun-Zhong Publishing House. www.matthewklein.org
LOWE, Tom
Novelist, author of A False Dawn (Minotaur/Thomas Dunne Books, 2009), The 24th Letter (Minotaur, Thomas Dunne Books, 2010). http://us.macmillan.com/author/tomlowe
MACKINNON, Colin
Novelist, author of Finding Hoseyn (Arbor House), Morning Spy, Evening Spy (St. Martin’s Press, 2006). The Contractor, (SMP, 2009) http://us.macmillan.com/author/colinmackinnon
MASLIN, Jamie
Author of Persian Porn And Iranian Rappers (Skyhorse Publishing Nov. 2009)
MAYER, Robert
Former Journalist (Newsday) and author of Superfolks (Dial, Literary Guild, St. Martin’s Press, 2005), The Execution (Viking), Midge & Decker (A & W), The Grace of Shortstops (Doubleday), The Search (Doubleday), I, JFK (Dutton, SMP). Nonfiction: The Dreams of Ada (Viking, NAL, Doubleday 2006), Baseball and Men’s Lives (Delacorte), re-issued as Notes of a Baseball Dreamer (Houghton Mifflin, 2003). Novel on submission: Eyes.
MOODY, Bill
Mystery/Jazz writer, author of The Jazz Exiles: American Musicians Abroad (Univ. Nevada Press) Solo Hand (novel, Walker), Death of A Tenor Man (Walker), The Sound of The Trumpet (Walker), Bird Lives! (Walker, 1999), Looking For Chet Baker (Walker 2002), Shades of Blue (The Poisoned Pen Press, 2008). www.billmoodyjazz.com
McCLENDON, Lise
Novelist, author of Bluejay Shaman (Walker, 1994, Thalia Press), Painted Truth (Walker, Thalia Press), Nordic Nights (Walker), One O’Clock Jump (SMP, Thalia Press), Blue Wolf (SMP), Sweet & Lowdown (SMP), Blackbird Fly (Thalia Press). www.lisemcclendon.com
NEWMAN, Christopher
Novelist, author of Midtown South (Fawcett), Sixth Precinct (Fawcett), Knock-Off (Fawcett), Backfire (Fawcett), Midtown North (Fawcett; MWA Edgar nominee), l9th Precinct (Fawcett), Dead End Game (Putnam, Berkley), Killer (Dell), The Devil’s Own (Dell, l997), Hit And Run (Dell, l997), Clean American Fun (Random House Audio), Chains of Command (written for the late William Caunitz, Dutton, l999). New work on submission: Everything to Win.
PHILPIN, John
Novelist, author of The Prettiest Feathers (Bantam), Tunnel of Night (Bantam), Dreams in the Key of Blue (novel, Bantam), The Murder Channel (Bantam); Nonfiction: Beyond Murder: The Inside Story of the Gainesville Student Murders (Dutton/NAL), Stalemate (nonfiction, Bantam), Shattered Justice (Avon, 2006).
POLNER, Murray
Founding editor of Present Tense magazine, author of six nonfiction books including DISARMED AND DANGEROUS: The Radical Lives and Times of Daniel and Philip Berrigan (Basic Books, 1996, Westview), Anti-War Patriots (The Perseus Group, 2008)
RUSSELL, Kirk
Novelist, author of Shell Games (Chronicle, 2003), Night Game (Chronicle, 2004). Dead Game (Chronicle, 2005). New novel: Redback. www.kirkrussellbooks.com
SALTER, Sam
Novelist, author of A Long Cold Fall (Putnam’s) and other crime novels (pseudonymn, Sam Reaves). Dooley’s Back (Otto Penzler Books/Carroll & Graf, 2003). Homicide 69 (Carroll & Graf, 2007), Mean Town Blues (Pegasus Books, 2008). New novel on submission: Nightfall, Algiers. www.samreaves.com
SHEEHY, Helen
Author of MARGO: The life and Theatre of Margo Jones (SMU Press), EVA LA GALLIENE: A Biography (Knopf, 1996). Eleanora Duse: A Biography (Knopf, 2003). First novel on submission: WILLA. www.helensheehy.org
*SHIELDS, Jean
Novelist, author of Air Burial (Carroll & Graf, 2003). Upcoming work: Hydrangea Blue.
SMITH, JP
Novelist, author of Breathless (New York: Viking Penguin, 1995; Books on Tape, 1995; and forthcoming in Japan, Kodansha Ltd.), The Discovery of Light (New York: Viking Penguin, 1992; Penguin paperback, 1993, A Barnes & Noble Discover title, 1992), The Blue Hour (New York: British American Publishing, 1989), Body and Soul (New York: Grove Press, 1987), The Man from Marseille (London: John Murray, 1985; and New York: St Martin’s Press, 1986). Upcoming Work: The Man Who Was. http://www.redroom.com/author/jp-smith
*SMITH, Taylor
Novelist, author of Guilty By Silence (Mira Books), Common Passions (Mira Books), The Best of Enemies (Mira Books), Random Acts (Mira Books, 1998), The Innocent’s Club (Mira, 2000), Deadly Grace (Mira, 2001). Liar’s Market (Mira, 2003), Slim to None (Mira, 2006), The Night Café (Mira, 2008). www.taylorsmith.org
STANTON, Tom
Journalist, author of THE FINAL SEASON: Fathers, Sons, and a Last Summer of Baseball at a Classic American Park (St. Martin’s Press, 2001). The Road to Cooperstown (SMP, 2003), Hank Aaron and the Home Run that Changed America (William Morrow, 2004). Ty & Babe (St. Martin’s Press, 2007). www.tomstanton.com
URE, Louise
Novelist, Shamus award-winning author Forcing Amaryllis (Mysterious Press, 2005) for best first mystery novel. The Fault Tree (St. Martin’s Press, 2008), Liar’s Anonymous (SMP, 2009). www.louiseure.com
VAN BOOY, Simon
Award-winning short story writer, author of The Secret Lives of People In Love (Turtle Point Press, 2007/reprint Harper Perennial, 2010), Love Begins in Winter (Harper Perennial, May 2009). First Novel: The Greek Affair (Harper Perennial, 2011) www.simonvanbooy.com
WALKER, Persia
Novelist, author of Harlem Redux (S&S, Feb. 2008), Darkness and the Devil Behind Me (Blood Vintage Press, Dec. 2008) www.persiawalker.net
WARD, Robert
Television writer (“Hill Street Blues,” “Miami Vice,” et. Al) and novelist, The Cactus Garden (Pocket Books), The King of Cards (Pocket), Red Baker (Washington Square Press, & re-issued by St. Martins, 2006), Shedding Skin (Washington Square Press), Four Kinds of Rain (St. Martin’s, 2006), Total Immunity (Harcourt, July 2009). www.robert-ward.com
WILEY, Michael
Novelist, author of The Last Striptease (St. Martin’s Press, 2007), which won the Private Eye Writers of America and St. Martin’s Press prize for best first private eye novel in 2006. Romantic Geography (Macmillan-St. Martin’s Press) and Romantic Migrations (Palgrave Macmillan). The Bad Kitty Lounge (SMP, 2010). www.michaelwileyonline.com
WILTZ, Christine
Novelist, author of The Glass House, The Emerald Lizard, A Diamond Before You Die, The Killing Circle; nonfiction: The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underground, (FS&G, 2000). Novel on submission: Shoot The Money.
WORRALL, Simon
Freelance magazine writer for The Sunday Review, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Times Weekend Review, and National Geographic Magazine, among others; author of The Poet and the Murderer (nonfiction, Dutton/Plume, 2002). Nonfiction proposal on submission: Stealing Beauty.
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