Come join Seth Fishman, Literary
Agent representing Alex Grecian, our Book of the Month author of THE YARD, and
the sequel, BLACK COUNTRY.
GIVEAWAYS:
THE YARD, now--June 14th
BLACK COUNTRY June 12th--14th
ASK THE AGENT: Seth and Alex have graciously agreed to
answer questions from Modern Good Reads members related to traditional
publishing, an agent’s role in publishing, and all those myriad things we all
want to know about working with agents and New York publishers.
Seth Fishman’s bio:
Seth Fishman (me) was
born and raised in Midland, Texas (think Friday Night Lights) and received his
MFA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England
(think cold and rainy and millions of castles). His YA thriller, The Well's
End, is the first in a series and the protagonist, Mia Kish, is roughly
inspired by a hometown drama that (when I was young) really blew him away: (http://articles.latimes.com/2012/oct/...). When not writing, Seth is a literary
agent at The Gernert Company (www.thegernertco.com), and thinks writing and agenting are the two
very best jobs in the world.
Agent/Publications & Experience:
I've been a literary agent for over
eight years, beginning at Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc. (www.sll.com)
and now, for the past three years, at The Gernert Company (www.thegernertco.com).
My list is deliberately wide-reaching, as I'm fervently of the mind that
good writing and strong stories can be found in any genre. For sake of
ease, however, a few published examples in varying categories I rep:
Literary Fiction: NYTimes Bestseller and Orange Prize winner Tea
Obreht's The Tiger's Wife, Liz Moore's Heft, Alex
Gilvarry's From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant
Hugo winner Will McIntosh's Love
Minus Eighty, Ted Kosmatka's Locus finalist The Games.
Thriller: Alex Grecian's Bestselling The Yard and The
Black Country, Ted Kosmatka's Prophet of Bones.
NonFiction: NY Times Bestseller Maria
Konnikova's Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes, BoingBoing
Science Editor Maggie Koerth-Baker's Before The Lights Go Out.
Graphic/comic/illustrated: #1 NYTimes Bestseller Kate Beaton's Hark! A Vagrant, Matt
Kish's Moby Dick In Pictures
Young Adult: Nora Price's Zoe Letting Go, Shawn Goodman's Something
Like Hope
Picture Book: Matthew Olshan's The Mighty Lalouche (This is just
out, his future books I rep).
Forthcoming publications (in the next 3/4 months): The Thousand Names by
Django Wexler, What The F Should I Drink by Zach Golden, and The Age
of Ice by J.M. Sidorova.
Seth Fishman’s debut novel:
The Well's End, a YA thriller, due
out from Putnam YA February 2014. COVER REVEAL June 11th 2013: http://io9.com/
A childhood accident, a bizarre outbreak, and
an impossible discovery…
Mia Kish is afraid of the dark. And for good reason. When she
was a toddler she fell deep into her backyard well only to be rescued to great
fanfare and celebrity. In fact, she is small-town Fenton, Colorado’s
walking claim to fame. Not like that helps her status at Westbrook Academy, the
nearby uber-ritzy boarding school she attends. A townie is a townie. Being
nationally ranked as a swimmer doesn’t matter a lick. But even the rarefied
world of Westbrook is threated when emergency sirens start blaring and the
school is put on lockdown, quarantined and surrounded by soldiers who seem to
shoot first and ask questions later. Only when confronted by a
frightening virus that ages
its victims to death in a manner of hours does Mia realize she may only just be
beginning to discover what makes Fenton special.
The answer is behind the walls of the Cave, aka Fenton
Electronics. Mia’s dad, the director of Fenton Electronics, has always been
secretive about his work. But unless Mia is willing to let her classmates
succumb to the strange illness, she and her friends have got to break
quarantine, escape the school grounds, and outsmart armed soldiers to uncover
the truth about where the virus comes
from and what happened down that well. The answers they find just might
be more impossible than
the virus they are fleeing.
Alex Grecian:
▼JOIN SETH FISHMAN & ALEX GRECIAN
June 12th through June 14th▼
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