Book sales to her credit include: Willy Blackmore, Associate Agent As an editor and publisher at Impetus Press, Willy Blackmore focused on works of literary fiction with a pop or urban edge that fell in-between the commercial and experimental. Works that fit this description continue to interest him, as well as literary fiction as a whole. He prefers narrative-driven novels that construct and develop a real and engaging world. He does not represent straight genre fiction (e.g. fantasy, romance, crime, horror, etc.), but will consider manuscripts that take a new slant on the traditions and tropes of a genre, such as Paul Auster’s ingenious, postmodernist take on detective fiction as seen in his New York Trilogy. Translation projects that fit into any of the above categories are also welcome. In non-fiction works, Blackmore considers pop culture, food/travel writing and contemporary art/culture to all be topics of interest, as well as biographies that relate to such concerns. Memoirs that showcase an intense sense of immediacy and are willing to honestly confront difficult realities will be considered as well. All non-fiction proposals/manuscripts should be rooted in contemporary life and culture or the relatively recent past. However, since histories relating to literature and art are a keen interest, such genres will also be considered for representation.
Reyna Grande's ACROSS A HUNDRED MOUNTAINS (Atria/Simon & Schuster)
Cherlyn Michaels's COUNTING RAINDROPS THROUGH A STAINED GLASS WINDOW (Hyperion)
Cherlyn Michaels's First Friday's (Hyperion)
L. Divine's debut YA novel DRAMA HIGH: Volume 1, The Fight (Amistad/Harper, reassigned to Kensington Publishing)
L. Divine's second YA novel DRAMA HIGH: Volume 2, Second Chance (Amistad/Harper, reassigned to Kensington Publishing)
L. Divine's third YA novel DRAMA HIGH: Volume 3, Jayd's Legacy (Amistad/Harper, reassigned to Kensington Publishing)
Sherry Ellis's NOW WRITE! FICTION: Writing Exercises by Today's Best Writers and Teachers (Tarcher/Penguin)
Sherry Ellis's ILLUMINATING FICTION (Red Hen)
Nora Pierce's THE INSUFFICIENCY OF MAPS (Atria)
Margo Candela's UNDERNEATH IT ALL (Kensington Publishing)
Margo Candela's LIFE OVER EASY (Kensington Publishing)
Margo Candela's MORE THAN THIS (Touchstone)
Margo Candela's Untitled (Touchstone)
Jeff Rivera's FOREVER MY LADY (Warner/Grand Central)
Joel McIver's THE PRICE OF FOREVER (Harlequin)
Joel McIver's Untitled (Harlequin)
Linda Nieves-Powell's FREESTYLE (Atria)
Malina Saval's THE SECRET LIVES OF BOYS: What They Don't Tell You (Basic Books)
Diana Rodriguez Wallach's debut YA novel AMOR & SUMMER SECRETS (Kensington)
Diana Rodriguez Wallach's second YA novel Untitled (Kensington)
Diana Rodriguez Wallach's third YA novel Untitled (Kensington)
Ivan Sanchez's NEXT STOP (Touchstone)
Kristina Springer's debut YA novel, THE ESPRESSOLOGIST (Farrar, Straus)
Kristina Springer's second YA novel, UNTITLED (Farrar, Straus)
Linda Sivertsen's and son Tosh Sivertsen's nonfiction YA book, GENERATION GREEN (Simon Pulse)
Linda Sivertsen's writing deal for James Ray's HARMONIC WEALTH (Hyperion)
Jackson Pearce's debut YA novel, AS YOU WISH (Harper)
Heather Duffy-Stone's debut YA novel, Permanent Ink (Llewellyn FLUX)
Reyna Grande's second novel, DANCING WITH BUTTERFLIES (Atria/Simon & Schuster)
Hannah Moskowitz's debut YA novel, BREAK (Simon Pulse)
First Latino Hip Hop DJ Disco Wiz and coauthor Ivan Sanchez's IT'S JUST BEGUN (powerHouse Books)
Traci E. Alexander and Naomi Tutu's NOW THAT I KNOW WHAT I KNOW: LETTERS FROM AMAZING AND AFRICAN and AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN ON THE JOURNEY OF MOTHERHOOD (TOUCHSTONE)
Jackson Pearce's second YA novel, SISTERS RED (Little, Brown)
Jackson Pearce's third YA novel, UNTITLED (Little, Brown)
Sherry Ellis's NOW WRITE! NONFICTION: Writing Exercises by Today's Best Writers and Teachers (Tarcher/Penguin)
Jen Nadol's debut YA novel MARKED (Bloomsbury)
