The 2016 Agents & Editors Conference set June 24-26
The 2016 Agents & Editors Conference set June 24-26
Date: Friday-Sunday, June 24-26
Where: Hyatt Regency, 208 Barton Springs Rd., Austin, TX 78704
The Writers' League of Texas will offer a conference in June that's a chance to gather with those who write and publish in the same genre, market, or format as you, so that you can trade ideas and encouragement – but we have moved them to Friday. We’ve also inserted additional panel options to our Saturday line-up, and expanded our Sunday program to include breakout presentations and a closing luncheon. Plus, we have the largest visiting faculty of agents and editors to date.
Featured Agents include:
Ethan Bassoff, Lippincott Massie McQuilkin
Jenni Ferrari-Adler, Union Literary
Mark Gottlieb, Trident Media Group
Jessica Papin, Dystel & Goderich Literary Management
Ammi-Joan Paquette, Erin Murphy Literary Agency
Michelle Tessler, Tessler Literary Agency
Ethan Bassoff attended Emerson College and managed Brookline Booksmith, a prominent Boston bookstore where he also hosted reading events. He then joined InkWell Management, where for six years he worked with recipients of the National Book Award, the Man Booker Prize, and finalists for the Story Prize. In 2012 he joined Lippincott Massie McQuilkin where he continues to represent both emerging and established writers of literary and crime fiction and narrative nonfiction including history, science, humor, and sports writing. His clients include New York Times bestselling writers, winners of the Pulitzer Prize, the Whiting Award, PEN/USA Book Award for Creative Nonfiction, finalists for The National Book Critics Circle Award and the Edgar Awards, and many other honors. Ethan has moderated panels at the Association of Writers and Writing Program and regularly attends writers workshops including Bread Loaf. He keeps store browsers in mind when signing new authors and brings a strong editorial approach to all proposals and manuscripts, understanding that great ideas must also tell compelling stories.
Jenni Ferrari-Adler is an agent at Union Literary in New York City. Jenni represents exciting novelists including Mo Daviau (EVERY ANXIOUS WAVE), and Brittani Sonnenberg (HOME LEAVE); the agency’s award-winning food writers and food shops; YA and Middle Grade; Narrative Nonfiction, and other categories. She holds an MFA in Fiction from the University of Michigan and a BA from Oberlin. She edited the anthology ALONE IN THE KITCHEN WITH AN EGGPLANT, Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone. She has taught Fiction at the University of Michigan and the Gotham Writers’ Workshop, and worked as a reader for The Paris Review and as a bookseller at Housing Works. Jenni is on the contracts committee of the AAR and is a member of The IACP. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and children. Follow her on twitter: @jenferrariadler or contact her at jenni@unionliterary.com.
Mark Gottlieb’s focus on publishing began at Emerson College, where he was a founding member of the Publishing Club, later its President, overseeing its first publication and establishing the Wilde Press. He graduated with a degree in writing, literature and publishing. Mark enjoys working directly with authors, helping to manage and grow their careers with all of the unique resources that are available to Trident. Since becoming an agent, he has ranked as high as #1 in Agents on publishersmarketplace.com in Overall Deals. He has also ranked #1 in categories such as Science-Fiction/Fantasy, Children's, and Graphic Novels. He has ranked in the top five for Thriller, Mystery/Crime, Women’s Fiction, Romance, Young Adult, and certain nonfiction categories such as Pop Culture, Memoir, How-To, and Humor.
Jessica Papin is an agent at Dystel and Goderich in New York. Prior to that, she was the Director of International Rights at the American University in Cairo Press, in Egypt, and an editor at Warner Books (now Grand Central Publishing) in New York. With a background on both sides of the desk, Papin loves working collaboratively with clients to shape and refine their work. She is interested in literary and smart commercial fiction, narrative non-fiction, history, medicine, science, economics and women’s issues. In every case, she looks for passion, erudition, and storytelling skill. A wry sense of humor doesn’t hurt.
Michelle Tessler established her New York-based literary agency in 2004. She represents a select number of best-selling and emerging authors of upmarket fiction (literary and commercial) and nonfiction (including narrative, popular science, memoir, history, psychology, business, biography, food, and travel). She values fresh, original writing that has a compelling point of view. She represents, among many others, Paul Collins, Frans de Waal, Mira Jacob, Amy Stewart and Amanda Eyre Ward. She is a member of the Association of Author’s Representatives and Women’s Media Group. More about the agency can be found at www.tessleragency.com.
Featured Editors include:
Michelle Howry, Simon & Schuster/Touchstone
Jodi Warshaw, Amazon Publishing
Michelle Howry specializes in commercial nonfiction. Her bestsellers at Touchstone include popular history books like THE GIRLS OF ATOMIC CITY by Denise Kiernan, diet category-killers THE NEW ATKINS FOR A NEW YOU and THE FORKS OVER KNIVES PLAN, pint-sized Hollywood diva Kristin Chenoweth’s A LITTLE BIT WICKED, and the BRO CODE franchise of books (with more than 1.5 million copies in print). Michelle acquires platform-driven practical nonfiction in the areas of self-help, personal finance, psychology, relationships, cookbooks, and health, as well as narrative nonfiction in categories such as popular history, biography, popular science and technology, and some celebrity memoir, including two upcoming books from #1 New York Times–bestselling author Matthew Inman, aka The Oatmeal.
Jodi Warshaw got her start in publishing as an intern for Gordon Lish at Alfred A. Knopf and his literary magazine, The Quarterly. From there she moved to San Francisco to edit pop-culture titles for Chronicle Books. For the past two years she’s been at Lake Union Publishing, an imprint of Amazon Publishing, where she acquires book-club fiction. Her taste runs the gamut from historical to contemporary women’s fiction, and right now she’s particularly looking for issue-oriented fiction in the vein of THE PERFECT SON by Barbara Claypole White and INSIDE THE O’BRIENS by Lisa Genova.
E-mail: wlt@writersleague.org
Visit: www.writersleague.org/38/Conference
Where: Hyatt Regency, 208 Barton Springs Rd., Austin, TX 78704
The Writers' League of Texas will offer a conference in June that's a chance to gather with those who write and publish in the same genre, market, or format as you, so that you can trade ideas and encouragement – but we have moved them to Friday. We’ve also inserted additional panel options to our Saturday line-up, and expanded our Sunday program to include breakout presentations and a closing luncheon. Plus, we have the largest visiting faculty of agents and editors to date.
Featured Agents include:
Ethan Bassoff, Lippincott Massie McQuilkin
Jenni Ferrari-Adler, Union Literary
Mark Gottlieb, Trident Media Group
Jessica Papin, Dystel & Goderich Literary Management
Ammi-Joan Paquette, Erin Murphy Literary Agency
Michelle Tessler, Tessler Literary Agency
Ethan Bassoff attended Emerson College and managed Brookline Booksmith, a prominent Boston bookstore where he also hosted reading events. He then joined InkWell Management, where for six years he worked with recipients of the National Book Award, the Man Booker Prize, and finalists for the Story Prize. In 2012 he joined Lippincott Massie McQuilkin where he continues to represent both emerging and established writers of literary and crime fiction and narrative nonfiction including history, science, humor, and sports writing. His clients include New York Times bestselling writers, winners of the Pulitzer Prize, the Whiting Award, PEN/USA Book Award for Creative Nonfiction, finalists for The National Book Critics Circle Award and the Edgar Awards, and many other honors. Ethan has moderated panels at the Association of Writers and Writing Program and regularly attends writers workshops including Bread Loaf. He keeps store browsers in mind when signing new authors and brings a strong editorial approach to all proposals and manuscripts, understanding that great ideas must also tell compelling stories.
Jenni Ferrari-Adler is an agent at Union Literary in New York City. Jenni represents exciting novelists including Mo Daviau (EVERY ANXIOUS WAVE), and Brittani Sonnenberg (HOME LEAVE); the agency’s award-winning food writers and food shops; YA and Middle Grade; Narrative Nonfiction, and other categories. She holds an MFA in Fiction from the University of Michigan and a BA from Oberlin. She edited the anthology ALONE IN THE KITCHEN WITH AN EGGPLANT, Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone. She has taught Fiction at the University of Michigan and the Gotham Writers’ Workshop, and worked as a reader for The Paris Review and as a bookseller at Housing Works. Jenni is on the contracts committee of the AAR and is a member of The IACP. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and children. Follow her on twitter: @jenferrariadler or contact her at jenni@unionliterary.com.
Mark Gottlieb’s focus on publishing began at Emerson College, where he was a founding member of the Publishing Club, later its President, overseeing its first publication and establishing the Wilde Press. He graduated with a degree in writing, literature and publishing. Mark enjoys working directly with authors, helping to manage and grow their careers with all of the unique resources that are available to Trident. Since becoming an agent, he has ranked as high as #1 in Agents on publishersmarketplace.com in Overall Deals. He has also ranked #1 in categories such as Science-Fiction/Fantasy, Children's, and Graphic Novels. He has ranked in the top five for Thriller, Mystery/Crime, Women’s Fiction, Romance, Young Adult, and certain nonfiction categories such as Pop Culture, Memoir, How-To, and Humor.
Jessica Papin is an agent at Dystel and Goderich in New York. Prior to that, she was the Director of International Rights at the American University in Cairo Press, in Egypt, and an editor at Warner Books (now Grand Central Publishing) in New York. With a background on both sides of the desk, Papin loves working collaboratively with clients to shape and refine their work. She is interested in literary and smart commercial fiction, narrative non-fiction, history, medicine, science, economics and women’s issues. In every case, she looks for passion, erudition, and storytelling skill. A wry sense of humor doesn’t hurt.
Michelle Tessler established her New York-based literary agency in 2004. She represents a select number of best-selling and emerging authors of upmarket fiction (literary and commercial) and nonfiction (including narrative, popular science, memoir, history, psychology, business, biography, food, and travel). She values fresh, original writing that has a compelling point of view. She represents, among many others, Paul Collins, Frans de Waal, Mira Jacob, Amy Stewart and Amanda Eyre Ward. She is a member of the Association of Author’s Representatives and Women’s Media Group. More about the agency can be found at www.tessleragency.com.
Featured Editors include:
Michelle Howry, Simon & Schuster/Touchstone
Jodi Warshaw, Amazon Publishing
Michelle Howry specializes in commercial nonfiction. Her bestsellers at Touchstone include popular history books like THE GIRLS OF ATOMIC CITY by Denise Kiernan, diet category-killers THE NEW ATKINS FOR A NEW YOU and THE FORKS OVER KNIVES PLAN, pint-sized Hollywood diva Kristin Chenoweth’s A LITTLE BIT WICKED, and the BRO CODE franchise of books (with more than 1.5 million copies in print). Michelle acquires platform-driven practical nonfiction in the areas of self-help, personal finance, psychology, relationships, cookbooks, and health, as well as narrative nonfiction in categories such as popular history, biography, popular science and technology, and some celebrity memoir, including two upcoming books from #1 New York Times–bestselling author Matthew Inman, aka The Oatmeal.
Jodi Warshaw got her start in publishing as an intern for Gordon Lish at Alfred A. Knopf and his literary magazine, The Quarterly. From there she moved to San Francisco to edit pop-culture titles for Chronicle Books. For the past two years she’s been at Lake Union Publishing, an imprint of Amazon Publishing, where she acquires book-club fiction. Her taste runs the gamut from historical to contemporary women’s fiction, and right now she’s particularly looking for issue-oriented fiction in the vein of THE PERFECT SON by Barbara Claypole White and INSIDE THE O’BRIENS by Lisa Genova.
E-mail: wlt@writersleague.org
Visit: www.writersleague.org/38/Conference
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