Dude, you guys! You have Monday, March 28 at 5 PM EST blocked out right? COMPLETELY BLOCKED OUT. Do it. Do it now. It’s our live event, and we’re welcoming literary agents from Dystel & Goderich, Jim McCarthy and Michael Bourret!
About Michael: Michael Bourret joined Dystel & Goderich Literary Management as an intern while studying film and television production at New York University, and began at the agency full-time in 2000. After ten years as an agent in the New York office, Michael now works in Los Angeles in the West Coast office of DGLM. There, he continues to represent his own list of bestselling and award-winning clients while also aggressively pursuing new film and television opportunities.
Michael is always on the lookout for exceptional writers with unique ideas, no matter what the category. He is currently looking for middle grade and young adult fiction, commercial adult fiction, and all sorts of nonfiction, from practical to narrative. He’s especially interested in food and cocktail related books, memoir, popular history, politics, religion (though not spirituality), popular science, and current events. And if you’ve got something on bourbon or tennis, even better.
About Jim: Jim McCarthy interned for DGLM while studying urban design at New York University. Upon graduating in 2002, Jim realized he would much rather continue working with books than make the jump (as he had originally intended) to the field of city planning. As an avid fiction reader, his interests encompass both literary and commercial works in the adult and young adult categories.
He is particularly interested in literary women’s fiction, underrepresented voices, mysteries, romance, paranormal fiction, and anything unusual or unexpected. In addition to fiction he is also interested in narrative nonfiction, memoir, and paranormal nonfiction.
I won’t lie; I sort of have a literary crush on both Jim and Michael. I mean, seriously. And we’ll be discussing “Getting Started In Today’s Market” so you can start preparing your questions now!
See you then–right here on the WriteOnCon site!
See you then. Though I’ll have to get you my questions from work and then check back about 10 minutes later when I get home from work. I’ll have my family turn on the computer so I can jump back in. It sounds great.
Wow! Thanks for another awesome live event!!!
Sweet! I will try to be there!
Exciting stuff!!!!
Sounds exciting! I’ll definitely mark my calendar for that.
This is excellent news. I plan to be there!
See you then!
I’ll be there. looking forward to it.
I can’t WAIT! I have an agent crush on Jim as well… shh don’t tell. I am pretty sure you aren’t actually supposed to say those things out loud.
Yay for an opportunity to stalk agents!