I founded Writers House in 1974, and have been midwife to books in all adult categories, fiction and non-fiction. And lately I’ve been enjoying working with some YA and Middle Grade authors. I'm interested in working with a few more novelists, literary and commercial, especially authors whose works have received reviews praising their artistry, but whose sales have been so-so. I'm good at launching and relaunching writers of fiction and non-fiction whose stories are highly dramatic and whose characters are memorable.

And since I wrote the above some of my clients have retired or died. So I am actively seeking new authors who write thrillers, mysteries, women’s fiction, and historical novels.

A sampling of authors and their novels I've worked with are:

HOW TO KILL A ROCK STAR by Tiffanie DeBartolo (Sourcebooks)
ONE THOUSAND WHITE WOMEN by Jim Fergus (St. Martin’s Press)
THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH by Ken Follett (Morrow)
THE FIRST WIVES CLUB by Olivia Goldsmith (Simon & Schuster)
SAVING MAX by Antoinette Van Heugten (Mira)
THE LOST DAUGHTER by Lucy Ferriss (Berkley)
THE SULTAN'S SEAL by Jenny White (W.W. Norton)
THE RELIGION by Tim Willocks (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
THE KEEP by F. Paul Wilson (Tor)
THE ILLUMINATUS TRILOGY by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson (Dell)
THE QUEEN’S CAPTIVE by Barbara Kyle (Kensington)

Now some non-fiction authors and their works:

A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME by Stephen Hawking (Random House)
MONEYBALL by Michael Lewis (W.W. Norton)
REACHING THE ANIMAL MIND by Karen Pryor (Scribner)
DINOSAURS OF THE FLAMING CLIFFS by Michael Novacek (Doubleday)
REPORT FROM GROUND ZERO by Dennis Smith (Viking)
THE OIL FACTOR by Stephen Leeb (Grand Central)
THE BLUE DAY BOOK by Bradley Trevor Greive (Andrews McMeel)
THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE WAR ON CANCER by Devra Davis (Basic)
THE DIVIDED MIND by Dr. John Sarno (HarperCollins)
YOUR MARKETING SUCKS by Mark Stevens (Crown)
ONE CLICK: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com by Richard Brandt (Portfolio)
100 YARDS OF GLORY: The Greatest Moments in NFL History by Joe Garner and Bob Costas (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

And some Middle Grade and YA:

GENERATION DEAD by Dan Waters (Hyperion)
HOME BOYZ by Alan Lawrence Sitomer (Hyperion)
HOW I, NICKY FLYNN, GOT A LIFE (AND A DOG) by Art Corriveau (Abrams)
DOGLANDS by Tim Willocks (Random House)
HEROES, GODS AND MONSTERS OF THE GREEK MYTHS by Bernard Evslin (Scholastic)

Motion Picture, Television, and Theatre Adaptations:

EYE OF THE NEEDLE by Ken Follett (with Donald Sutherland)
THE KEEP by F. Paul Wilson (directed by Michael Mann)
THE FIRST WIVES CLUB by Olivia Goldsmith (starring Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton, and Bette Midler)
PATCH ADAMS by Hunter Patch Adams (starring Robin Williams)
THE BLIND SIDE by Michael Lewis (starring Sandra Bullock in her Academy Award winning role)
MONEYBALL by Michael Lewis (starring Brad Pitt)
THE ICEMAN by Anthony Bruno (starring Michael Shannon)
THE KEY TO REBECCA by Ken Follett (1985 TV Movie)
ON WINGS OF EAGLES by Ken Follett (TV miniseries starring Burt Lancaster)
PETER AND THE STARCATCHERS by Ridley Pearson (Disney theatre production; Off-Broadway and Broadway)
BAD APPLE by Anthony Bruno (TV movie, starring Elliott Gould)
ILLUMINATUS by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea (British National Theatre)

If you are a novelist, I believe you'll gain value from reading my book WRITING THE BLOCKBUSTER NOVEL. You can order it from Amazon or from Writers House. It's been published in 8 languages, has an introduction by Ken Follett, and contains his four outlines for THE MAN FROM ST. PETERSBURG which comprise an unusual primer for structuring a thriller. It's also endorsed by Dan Brown who said it helped him sell his first novel.

Naval officer, foreign service officer, playwright, winner of the Stanley Drama Award, taught playwriting at Yale Drama School, wrote three TV soap operas, published two novels, coproduced THE FRONT PAGE on Broadway with Helen Hayes and Robert Ryan, and obtained an at-the-time record advance for a first novel $830,000 in 1982 for WOMENS WORK by Ann Tolstoi Wallach.

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