AGENTS

HARVEY KLINGER

Harvey Klinger received his M.A. in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. He began his publishing career at Doubleday where he expected to become the next Max Perkins among editors. Instead, he left and worked for a literary agent for eighteen months and began forming his first client list. A two-year stint followed in association with an independent publicist. Harvey created his own independent operation in October, 1977 and has never looked back. He personally loves great adult commercial and literary fiction; and in non-fiction, books with a strong narrative voice in all disciplines, but written by an author who already has an established professional platform in one's field of expertise.

He does not personally accept submissions for children's books and those submissions should not be sent directly to him.

DAVID DUNTON

David Dunton has been at Harvey Klinger, Inc. since 1996. He represents writers including Greg Kot, James Beard winner Jason Sheehan, musician Bob Mould, Dan Charnas, Tara Altebrando, Robert Elder, Scott Mebus, Ashley Kahn, Michelle Mercer, Ed Ward, and others. He specializes in music-related books and is looking for the following types of projects: pop culture, narrative nonfiction, memoir, food, literary fiction, middle grade fiction, and young adult fiction. See his listing on the client page of this website for a full list of recently placed projects.

Past projects include Jeremy Jackson's Life at These Speeds and James Beard nominee The Cornbread Book; Mark Kemp's Dixie Lullaby; Shawn McBride's Green Grass Grace; Richard Meltzer's Autumn Rhythm; Blake Nelson's User; Mac Randall's Exit Music: The Radiohead Story; Karen Schoemer's Great Pretenders; Mark Weingarten's Station to Station; and many more.

Prior to becoming an agent, David was an editor in Simon & Schuster's trade paperback group until 1995, where he acquired and edited Donald Passman's bestselling music business guide, All You Need to Know About the Music Business, and Gavin Edwards' 'Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy (And Other Misheard Lyrics), among other titles, before leaving to tour for a year in support of the critically acclaimed Kevin Salem album Soma City. He grew up in Portland, CT and Milton, MA, graduated with a B.A. in American Studies from Wesleyan University in 1988, can be contacted at david@harveyklinger.com and answers email queries months before hard copy ones.

SARA CROWE

Sara Crowe has been an agent with Harvey Klinger, Inc. since 2005, where she represents adult fiction and nonfiction and children's fiction. Her clients include NYT Bestselling authors Leslie Banks and Jonathan Maberry, Ben Dolnick, Nina LaCour, Michael Northrop, Lisa Schroeder, Kristen Tracy and Dan Wells. Her authors have been nominated for Edgars and the Morris Award and have been on the ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults list and in the Top Ten. She is consistently ranked among the top three YA agents in Publishers Marketplace.

After attending the Radcliffe Publishing Course, she started her career at The Wylie Agency in New York, and after two years, moved to their London office as a foreign rights agent. At Trident Media Group in New York, she was a Foreign rights manager and represented rights for Louis Sachar, Michael Ondaatje and Russell Banks. She joined Harvey Klinger in 2005 to build her own list and to develop a children's list for the agency.

Utilizing her seven years of experience in foreign rights, she aggressively markets British and translation rights for her authors, regularly attending the London, BEA, and Bologna book fairs to promote her clients' work.

She actively markets film and TV rights, and recently optioned Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry to Sony TV, and I Am Not a Serial Killer by Dan Wells to British based The Bureau Film, with Bertrand Faivre producing and Billy O'Brien slated to direct and write the screenplay.

Please visit Sara's website: http://www.saracrowe.com

She and her children's authors have started a blog, Crowe's Nest. Please visit: http://acrowesnest.blogspot.com

Sara does NOT accept queries by regular mail and will not respond to them. She can be queried directly at sara@harveyklinger.com

ANDREA SOMBERG

A literary agent for over ten years, Andrea Somberg represents a wide range of fiction and nonfiction, including projects aimed at a young adult and middle grade audience. Previously an agent at the Donald Maass Agency and Vigliano Associates, she joined Harvey Klinger Inc. in the spring of 2005. Her client list is quite full, however she is always actively looking to take on new authors who write in the following categories: Fiction; literary, commercial, womens fiction, romance, thrillers, mystery, paranormal, fantasy, science fiction, young adult, middle grade. Nonfiction: memoir, narrative, popular science, pop-culture, humor, how-to, parenting, self-help, lifestyle, travel, interior design, crafts, cookbooks, health & fitness, business, and sports.

For more information about Andrea and her clients, please visit: http://www.andreasomberg.com

She can be queried directly at andrea@harveyklinger.com

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