AGENTS

Emily Sylvan Kim , Prospect Literary Agency
Emily Sylvan Kim is the founder of Prospect Agency. Emily opened the doors to Prospect Agency in 2005 after almost 6 successful years working at Writers House Literary Agency in New York City. Her commitment to authors and dedication to wonderful stories takes its root from her grounding in the field and her life long passion for reading and writing.

As a young energetic agent with an understanding of the publishing industry and ideas for shaping its future, Emily is thrilled to be representing authors independently through her own agency. Her focus is on maintaining a thriving literary agency that not only provides a high level of access and a sense of community but also savvy business acumen and technology to facilitate the process of turning great ideas into books on the shelf. She is fully committed and informed about authors' rights and has developed strong working relationships with first-rate publishers.

Emily grew up in Denver, Colorado and spent much of her childhood buried in the page of a book. After graduating from Carleton College with a degree in English, she translated her favorite pasttime and subject matter into a career by moving to New York City and working in the publishing industry. Reading "above the desk" and facilitating everything from contracts to cover art has been a dream come true. Additionally, Emily writes reviews at Publisher's Weekly and frequents literary conventions including Pikes Peak Writers Conference, RWA, Pennwriters Convention, and SCBWI.

Emily also writes both poetry and short stories. Emily believes in beautiful sentences and compulsively readable stories and is always on the lookout for a new book to capture her imagination. When she's not surrounded by words, Emily enjoys walking in the park and spending time with her family.

Emily is always looking for new erotica projects, contemporary and historical romance, women's fiction and even paranormal, though she is definitely not heavily into fantasy or sci-fi romance unless the hook really grabs her.

Mary Beth Chappell , Zachary Shuster Harmsworth Literary and Entertainment Agency
Mary Beth Chappell received a B.A. in Political Science from Brown University. A native southerner, she then headed to Atlanta where she earned a J.D. from Emory School of Law. After working as a ZSH reader for a year, Chappell attended New York University's Summer Publishing Institute and then joined Zachary Shuster Harmsworth in the Boston office.

Her fiction interests include historical fiction with feisty female characters, women's commercial fiction, Southern fiction, literary fiction, mysteries, especially if they are set in the UK, horror, YA and middle-grade fiction. Her nonfiction interests include self-help, pop-psychology, health, politics, public policy, human rights, southern culture, food, travel, religion, the environment and women's issues. Chappell also works with foreign, film and subsidiary rights.

Deidre Knight, The Knight Agency
Deidre Knight established The Knight Agency in 1996 after working in the entertainment industry. In the years since that time, she has built a dynamic, bestselling client list, placing nearly five hundred titles in a broad range of categories, including romance, women's fiction, personal finance, business, popular culture, African American history, self-help, religion, health, and parenting.

Her recent sales include books placed with Penguin Putnam, Random House, St. Martin's, Warner, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, Harlequin/Silhouette, Doubleday, Tyndale, Zondervan, Bethany House, and WaterBrook. Deidre's clients have appeared on all the major bestseller lists, including the New York Times, USA Today, Publisher's Weekly, CBA, and LA Times Bestseller Lists, as well as Amazon.com's Hot 100 List. Her authors have won countless awards, including the coveted RITA, the Gold Medallion, the Walden Books Award for Best New Author, and many others. She belongs to The Association of Authors' Representatives and Romance Writers of America. A native Atlantan, Deidre is listed in Who's Who in the Southeast and in Who's Who in America

Meg Ruley, Jane Rotrosen Agency
Meg Ruley joined the Jane Rotrosen Agency in 1981. During her tenure, she has directed several of the agency's subsidiary rights departments (film/television, foreign rights, first serial) as well as represented her own list of writers. She is especially interested in New England-based authors. The Jane Rotrosen Agency is best known for representing authors of commercial fiction and non- fiction.

Elaine Spencer, The Knight Agency
Elaine Spencer joined The Knight Agency in 2005. She acts as the liaison between clients, publishers, and agents as Manuscript Coordinator and an Associate Agent. With a strong background in both comparative literature and economics from the University of Georgia, she has experience with legal contracts and executive management, as well as writing, editing, and publishing. She is looking to acquire novels in a variety of categories, including women’s fiction, romance (light paranormals, romance, contemporary mainstream, romantic suspense, comedic, historical), young adult, mystery, and suspense.

EDITORS

Margaret O'Neill Marbury, MIRA
Margaret O’Neill Marbury oversees three imprints of Harlequin: MIRA Books, which publishes a wide range of commercial fiction in all formats; Red Dress Ink, the first dedicated chick lit imprint in North America, and Spice, which publishes erotic fiction. Margaret has been with Harlequin for 15 years and likes to work with a broad spectrum of authors. She is drawn to an author's voice, character development, and an original, entertaining story.

Robin Lawson, Red Sage Publishing
Robin returned to school in her early 30s and graduated with honors from Broome Community College with an Associates in Arts and Science Degree. She won Affaire de Coeur magazine's first short story contest and was a founding member of the Sourthern Tier Authors of Romance and is a former member of the New Englng Romance Writers chapter. Robin published a novella with Red Sage Publishing under the pseudonym Jade Lawless. She began editing for Red Sage Publishing in 2007 and has been growing her author list since.

Red Sage is searching for romance authors who dare to go where today's romance authors are forbidden to go. Highly intense love relationships involve an equally intense sexual relationship that is sometimes politically incorrect. We are looking for a high level of sexual tension throughout the story to maintain the necessary edge and arousing feel. These love scenes must be sophisticated, erotic and emotional. We want to push the envelope beyond the normal romance novel. Be kinky, be wild, go far beyond, spicy, but always write romance.