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agent : suzie@nancycoffeyliterary.com
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Suzie Townsend
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Nancy Coffey Literary and Media Representation
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Margaret Ferguson Books/FSG (6/5/2012)
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Suzie Townsend started at FinePrint Literary Management in January 2009 and worked her way up from intern to agent. Now an agent at Nancy Coffey Literary, she represents adult and children's fiction. She is actively looking to build her list. In adult, she's specifically looking for romance (historical and paranormal), and fantasy (urban fantasy, science fiction, steampunk, epic fantasy). In Childrens' she loves YA (all subgenres) and is dying to find great Middle Grade projects (especially something akin to the recent movie SUPER 8). She's an active member of AAR, RWA, and SCBWI.
She’s interested in strong characters and voice driven stories: she’s particularly keen on strong female protagonists, complex plot lines with underlying political, moral, or philosophical issues, and stories which break out of the typical tropes of their genre. Some of her favorite novels (that she doesn't represent) are Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead, How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff, Jellicoe Road and Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta, The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, Jeaniene Frost's Vampire Huntress series, Anne Bishop’s Black Jewels series, and Jacqueline Carey’s Kushiel series.
She drinks too much diet orange soda, has a Starbucks problem (those soy chai lattes are addictive), and lives in Manhattan with her two dogs, Slevin and Fate, who know that chewing on shoes is okay but chewing on books is not.
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years experience: 3
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GENRES & SPECIALTIES
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Romance, Fantasy/science fiction, Juvenile fiction, Paranormal Romance, Urban Fantasy, Historical Romance, YA, Middle Grade
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LEADING CLIENTS
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Mindee Arnett
Jessica Corra
Julie Cross
Lisa Desrochers
Chelsea Fine
Kristin Halbrook
Cat Hellisen
Jennifer Hoffine
Dan Krokos
Nikki Loftin
Ruth Frances Long
Josin L. McQuein
Allison Pang
Ingrid Paulson
Sara Polsky
Kara M. Taylor
Arlaina Tibensky
Sarah Wylie
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BEST-KNOWN PROJECTS
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Recent Releases
Personal Demons by Lisa Desrochers (Tor Teen, 9/14/2010)
A Brush of Darkness by Allison Pang (Pocket Books, 1/25/2011)
Invincible Summer by Hannah Moskowitz (Simon Pulse, 4/19/2011)
Original Sin by Lisa Desrochers (Tor Teen, 7/5/2011)
And Then Things Fall Apart by Arlaina Tibensky (Simon Pulse, 7/26/2011)
Zombie Tag by Hannah Moskowitz (Roaring Brook, 12/20/2011)
Anew by Chelsea Fine (12/5/2011)
Tempest by Julie Cross (Thomas Dunne Books, 1/17/2012)
When the Sea is Rising Red by Cat Hellisen (FSG, 2/28/2012)
A Sliver of Shadow by Allison Pang (Pocket Books, 2/28/2012)
Gone Gone Gone by Hannah Moskowitz (Simon Pulse, 4/17/2012)
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MOST RECENT SALES/ FORTHCOMING BOOKS
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Forthcoming Titles
Last Rite by Lisa Desrochers (Tor Teen, 5/2012)
Awry by Chelsea Fine (6/2012)
All These Lives by Sarah Wylie (Margaret Ferguson Books, 6/5/2012)
False Memory by Dan Krokos (Disney*Hyperion, 8/14/2012)
The Treachery of Beautiful Things by Ruth Frances Long (Dial Books for Young Readers, 8/14/2012)
The Sinister Sweetness of Splendid Academy by Nikki Loftin (Razorbill, 8/21/2012)
Valkyrie Rising by Ingrid Paulson (HarperTeen, 10/9/2012)
A Trace of Moonlight by Allison Pang (Pocket Books, 10/30/2012)
Teeth by Hannah Moskowitz (Simon Pulse, 1/1/2013)
Marco Impossible by Hannah Moskowitz (Roaring Brook, Spring 2013)
After You by Jessica Corra (Dial BFYR, 6/11/2013)
Recent Sales
Young Adult:
Josin L McQuein's contemporary thriller PREMEDITATED, about the lengths one girl will go in order to get revenge on the boy who ruined her cousin's life to Krista Vitola at Delacorte, for publication in Fall 2013, at auction by Suzie Townsend at Nancy Coffey Literary and Media Representation.
Young Adult:
Jennifer Hoffine's debut series CHEATER BEATERS, featuring a teenage girl who discovers her boyfriend is cheating on her and deals with it by swearing off serious relationships and starting her own detective agency to investigate cheaters; she ropes her best friend and new neighbor into helping her, only to discover love might be easier to find than she thought, to Lisa Rutherford at Coliloquy, by Suzie Townsend and Nancy Coffey Literary & Media Representation.
Young Adult:
Kara Taylor's PREP SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL, the story of a sixteen-year old Queen Bee who is kicked out of her posh Manhattan prep school and sent to a blue-blooded prep school outside Boston, only to find herself embroiled in a murder mystery that will eventually reveal the storied school's disturbing secret history, pitched as GOSSIP GIRL meets TWIN PEAKS, to Anne Bensson and Brendan Deneen at Thomas Dunne Books, by Suzie Townsend at Nancy Coffey Literary & Media Representation.
Middle Grade:
Author of the forthcoming FALSE MEMORY, Dan Krokos' middle grade debut, THE PLANET THIEVES, featuring a thirteen year old cadet in Earth Space Command, whose mandatory summer space time gets a lot more dangerous when the ship is attacked, the adult crew is all captured, and it falls to him and his fellow cadets to take back the ship, rescue its crew, and warn earth of an impending attack, pitched as Star Trek meets Rick Riordan, in a two book deal, in a very nice deal, to Whitney Ross at Starscape by Suzie Townsend at Nancy Coffey Literary and Media Representation.
Young Adult:
Mindee Arnett's debut THE NIGHTMARE AFFAIR, set at a supernatural boarding school where a sixteen-year-old girl (half human, half Nightmare) feeds on the dreams of a hot guy only to discover that he's dreaming of a murder -- and it comes true, pitched as Harry Potter meets Veronica Mars, to Whitney Ross at Tor Teen, in a three-book deal, by Suzie Townsend at FinePrint Literary Management.
Young Adult:
Kristin Halbrook's debut NOBODY BUT US, featuring two teenagers who, in search of a better life, run away to Vegas, but realize they can't run fast enough when they end up wanted by the police, out of money, and out of options, pitched as a YA Bonnie and Clyde, to Sarah Dotts Barley at Harper Children's, in a two-book deal, in a very nice deal, by Suzie Townsend at FinePrint Literary Management.
Young Adult:
Josin L. McQuein's debut ARCLIGHT, a science fiction/dystiopian thriller, where a parasitic race is driving humanity to the point of extinction, and no one who leaves the last safe enclave ever returns until one teenage girl, a stranger, stumbles out of the Dark, to Martha Mihalick at Greenwillow, in a two-book deal, in a major deal, by Suzie Townsend at FinePrint Literary Management.
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MOST RECENT RIGHTS SALES
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Film rights to Dan Krokos's YA thriller FALSE MEMORY, optioned to RKO Pictures.
Film rights to Julie Cross's YA time travel novel TEMPEST, optioned to Summit Entertainment.
Rights to NOBODY BUT US have been sold in France (Abin Machel), Germany (Heyne Fleight), Taiwan (Ecus).
Rights to WHEN THE SEA IS RISING RED have been sold in France (La Martinière Le Seuil).
Rights to FALSE MEMORY have been sold in Spain (Anaya), Turkey (Dogan Kitap).
Rights to ARCLIGHT have been sold in UK (Egmont UK), Germany (Egmont).
Rights to A BRUSH OF DARKNESS have been sold in Spain (Ediciones B).
Rights to ALL THESE LIVES have been sold in Germany (Heyne and Bertlesmann Juvenile), Complex Chinese (Omnibooks), Brail (Autentica).
Rights to LAST RITE (book three in the PERSONAL DEMONS trilogy) have been sold in Audio (Audible), German (Rowohlt), Australia (Pan Macmillan), Brazilian Portuguese (Editoria iD).
Rights to ORIGINAL SIN (book two in the PERSONAL DEMONS trilogy) have been sold in Audio (Audible), German (Rowohlt), Australia (Pan Macmillan), Brazilian Portuguese (Editoria iD), French (Bragelonne).
Rights to TEMPEST have been sold in German (Fischer), UK (Macmillan UK Children’s), Russian (AST), Brazilian Portuguese (Pensamento-Cultrix), Croatian (Naklada Ljevak), Italian (Fanucci), French (Editions du Seuil), Portuguese (Dom Quixote), Korean (Hyundaemunhak), Taiwan/Chinese (Sharp Point), Thai (Amarin), Turkish (Pegasus), Indonesian (Mizan Publishing House), Polish (Bukowy Las), Czech and Slovak (Nakladatelstvi Fragment s. r. o), Spanish (Maeva), Danish (Tellerup).
Rights to PERSONAL DEMONS have also been sold in Audio (Audible), German (Rowohlt), Australia (Pan Macmillan), Brazilian Portuguese (Editoria iD), French (Bragelonne), Russian (Eksmo), Italian (Newton Compton), Portuguese (Saída de Emergência), Turkish (Artemis Yayinlari), Polish (Wydawnictwo Ksinica), Hungarian (Kelly Kiadó), Spanish (La Factoria de Ideas).
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SUB-AGENTS/ RIGHTS CONTACTS
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Kathleen Ortiz, Director of Subrights
Pouya Shahbazian, Film/TV
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SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
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Please see my submission guidelines here.
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