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.