Love Is Murder Mystery Conference

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Interests: mysteries, thrillers, literary and commercial fiction, young adult and middle grade (particularly adventures and mysteries for boys).

After almost three fascinating and productive years reacquainting myself with the world of publishing at Writers House, I joined Russell and Volkening, Inc., as a (mostly) fiction and young adult/middle grade agent and their director of Film/Television rights.

I am particularly into foreign and historical thrillers and mysteries, so send me your ruthless doges and impious cardinals...and your farmhouse cozies! Give me atmosphere, let me learn something about another time or another place (or both), and kill off nasty Uncle Mortimer in the process--I'll be yours! I take middle grade and YA mystery or adventure series, but not so much fantasy, and definitely not picture books.

Russell & Volkening was founded in 1940 by Diarmuid Russell and Henry Volkening. They were responsible for discovering and representing some of the most noted writers in the history of American publishing, including Eudora Welty, Bernard Malamud, Anne Tyler, George Plimpton, Barbara Tuchman, and South African Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer. In 1972, they sold their agency to Timothy Seldes, formerly the Managing Editor of Doubleday, Vice President of Macmillan, and Assistant Publisher of The New York Post. Seldes continued to expand the list, with Annie Dillard, Tony Award winner Ntozake Shange, Jim Lehrer, and Marian Wright Edelman (President of the Children's Defense Fund), among many others. They handle fiction, non-fiction, and children's books, focusing on quality of writing and literary merit across the board.

Robert Brown is currently seeking well-written fiction novels in all commercially viable genres. He has taught workshops and consulted on manuscripts at conferences throughout North America and is an AAR member. Current projects include Heather Sharfeddin’s Sweetwater Burning and Damaged Goods (Bantam Dell, 2010 and 2011), T. Dawn Richard’s  Death For Dessert (Harlequin, 2006) and Par For The Corpse (Five Star, 2011), and Tim Carter’s Epoch, Evil? and Cupidity (Flux, 2008, 2009, and 2011). He maintains an updated page of current needs and guidelines, as well as a running commentary about publishing on the agency’s blog at http://blog.wylie-merrick.com. Follow him on Twitter at www.twitter.com/agentrobert or find him on Facebook.

Sharene Martin-Brown primarily represents romance, erotica, women’s fiction, selected GLBT projects, and specialty projects. She is also open to seeing well-written fiction novels in all commercially viable genres. A member of the AAR and Romance Writers of America, she is a multi-published author and freelance writer who has taught high school and college writing and literature, as well as facilitated workshops and consulted on manuscripts at conferences throughout North America. She’s sold works by Lydia Parks, author of Addicted and Animal Instinct (Kensington, 2008 and 2009) and Shadow Lover and Marked (Harlequin, 2009 and 2010); Lambda-finalist MJ Pearson, author of The Price of Temptation, Discreet Young Gentleman, and Helpless (Seventh Window, 2005, 2006, and 2010); and Lisa Cooke, author of Texas Hold Him and A Midwife Crisis (Leisure Books, 2009 and 2010). She maintains an updated listing of current needs and contributes to the agency’s blog at http://blog.wylie-merrick.com. Follow her on Twitter at www.twitter.com/agentsharene or find her on Facebook.

We have been in business for over 30 years, and represent the best in commercial fiction, literary fiction, and non-fiction. Our authors have over 120 appearances on the New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, Walden, and Bookscan bestseller lists.

Donna Bagdasarian established Publication Riot Group, Inc. after 11 years working in the publishing industry as a literary agent.

The company is a literary management company, representing their authors in all processes of the entertainment trajectory: from book development, to book sales, to subsidiary sales in the foreign market, television and film. Publication Riot Group, Inc. represents both fiction and nonfiction with special interest in general fiction/mainstream, literary fiction, mystery and suspense, thrillers, historicals, contemporary women’s fiction, biography and memoir, history, business, finance, psychology, and popular science.

Publication Riot Group, Inc. believes in career development for authors, taking a longterm approach in planning and editorial assistance. Some twenty plus authors are represented by the agency.