New Agent Alert: Don Fehr of Trident Media Group
Reminder: New literary agents (with this spotlight featuring Don Fehr of Trident Media Group) are golden opportunities for new writers because each one is a literary agent who is likely building his or her client list.
About Don: He comes to Trident as a 20-year publishing veteran in editorial and various executive level publishing positions. He has held senior level editorial jobs at Atheneum, Addison-Wesley, Viking Penguin, Basic Books, and was the Publisher of Smithsonian Books/HarperCollins. Don had published over a dozen New York Times Bestsellers and his authors and books have won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the P.E.N. Faulkner Award, and The L.A. Times Book Award among others. He holds degrees from Gordon College and Harvard University.
He is seeking: new literary and commercial novelists, narrative nonfiction, memoirs, biography, travel, as well as science/medical/health related titles. And since he reads alongside is ten-year-old daughter, he has also developed an interest in young adult authors.
How to submit: dfehr[at]tridentmediagroup[dot]com. Query first. Please send mss or proposals only upon request.
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