June 2008--I'm excited to announce I've signed with The Talbot Fortune Agency. Literary agent John Talbot will be representing me.
The John Talbot Agency, Inc., was founded by former Pocket Books and Putnam Berkley Senior Editor John Talbot in 1998. With the addition of former Berkley Publishing Group Executive Editor Gail Fortune in 2005, it became The Talbot Fortune Agency, LLC. John Talbot is a literary agent and former book editor with twenty-one years of publishing experience. Before becoming an agent he spent seven years with Putnam Berkley (now part of Penguin USA), where he rose to the rank of Senior Editor and worked with such major bestselling authors as Tom Clancy, W.E.B. Griffin, and Jack Higgins, as well as rising literary stars such as Tom Perrotta. He published national bestsellers in hardcover, trade paperback, and mass market paperback, along with five New York Times Notable Books. He began his editorial career at Simon & Schuster.
My first suspense-thriller novel, Dead On, film optioned.
Runner-up 2006 DIY Los Angeles Book Festival
Dead On has been in top 5 in best-selling genre fiction/horror/erotica books on amazon.com
Dead On a top-selling fiction title in Doylestown, 2006
Ann Kelly appeared on Comcast network's cable TV show Money Matters Today
as a guest on January 10, 2007. The show is hosted by Mary Caraccioli, director of business and consumer news
Nominated for Agatha Award for Best First Mystery Novel, 2005
Named one of readers’ favorite new mystery books for 2004 by New Mystery Reader magazine
Dead On was 1 of 3 top-selling iUniverse books in retail channels for December 2005
Dead On was #1 on the Uniquely Best-Selling Purchases list in Doylestown (PA) on the Amazon. com teamed with Borders website from December-May 2006.
Ann Kelly was named a finalist in the WritersCornerUSA Stephen Susco Screenwriting Competition for scenes from her upcoming novel, Glass Wishes, in 2005.