At LaunchBooks our passion is to help authors publish great books. With that passion comes more than 16 years experience as an agent and having successfully represented books to more than 40 different publishers, generating more than $14 Million for authors in the process. From developing the concept and honing the proposal, to pitching the book to editors, negotiating the deal, and seeing the book hit the shelves, LaunchBooks will be there to ensure that you get the most from your writing career.

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LaunchBooks represents authors such as Christopher Steiner, Senior Writer for Forbes and the author of the forthcoming $20 per Gallon (Grand Central); Jon Jeter, the two time Pulitzer Prize finalist and former Washington Post Bureau Chief for both South America and South Africa, whose forthcoming book is called Flat Broke in the Free Market (W.W. Norton); Jonathan Watts, the China correspondent for the UK Guardian and author of the forthcoming When a Billion Chinese Jump (Scribner in the US, Faber & Faber in the UK); Robert Pierre of the Washington Post, on a book he’s co-authoring about what Obama means to black Americans (John Wiley & Sons); Kevin Poulsen, Senior Editor at Wired.com and the editor of Wired’s “Threat Level” blog, ranked by Time Magazine as one of the top 25 blogs of 2008, whose book Kingpin (Crown) will be published next year; Kevin Mitnick, the world's most famous hacker and author of The Art of Deception (John Wiley & Sons), as well as his forthcoming memoir from Little, Brown; Louis Foreman, Creator and Executive Producer of the PBS show Everyday Edisons (the book will be published by Workman); Jonathan Baskin, author of Branding Only Works on Cattle (Grand Central); Gina Trapani, Editor of Lifehacker.com and author of Upgrade Your Life (John Wiley & Sons); Robert Vamosi, author of the forthcoming The Revenge of Everyday Things (Basic Books); Chris Guillebeau, the Art of Nonconformity blogger and author of the forthcoming A Brief Guide to World Domination (Perigee), and many others.

Kingpin, by Kevin Poulsen, editor of Wired's "Threat Level" blog (Crown)
SLOW: Life in a Tuscan Town, by Douglas Gayeton (Welcome Books)
The Revenge of Everyday Things, by Robert Vamosi (Basic Books)
A Brief Guide to World Domination, by Chris Guillebeau (Perigee)
$20 per Gallon, by Christopher Steiner, Senior Writer for Forbes (Grand Central)
Truth, Lies & Kevin Mitnick, by Kevin Mitnick (Little, Brown)
Small Dog, Big Life, by Dennis Fried, PhD (Simon & Schuster)
Branding Only Works on Cattle (Grand Central)
Flat Broke in the Free Market, by Jon Jeter (W.W. Norton)

David Fugate, Founder
email: david@launchbooks.com
phone: 760-944-9909

An email query is preferred and once requested, email submission of proposals and samples is preferred.