New Literary Agent Alert: Rob Kirkpatrick of The Stuart Agency
Reminder: New literary agents (with this spotlight featuring Rob Kirkpatrick of The Stuart Agency) are golden opportunities for new writers because each one is a literary agent who is likely building his or her client list.
About Rob: Rob Kirkpatrick joins The Stuart Agency after working as a senior editor at multiple publishing houses for more than a dozen years. Titles he has helped publish include The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll’s Best-Kept Secret; Shrinkage: Manhood, Marriage, and the Tumor that Tried to Kill Me; Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys. (Viv Albertine); Vagos, Mongols, and Outlaws (basis for the miniseries Gangland Undercover); The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution; The Agent: My 40-Year Career Making Deals and Changing the Game (Leigh Steinberg); Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging ‘70s; Snakes! Guillotines! Electric Chairs! My Adventures in the Alice Cooper Group; The Kennedy Chronicles: The Golden Age of MTV Through Rose-Colored Glasses; Black Noon: The Year They Stopped The Indy 500; Cohn-Head: A No-Holds Barred Account of Breaking Into the Boys Club (by ESPN’s Linda Cohn); and Jerry Rice’s latest book, 50 Years, 50 Moments. Rob completed a PhD in English and also is the author of several books himself.
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He is seeking: His specialties include memoir, biography, sports, music, pop culture, current events, and history. Please note that as of February 2016, he is no longer accepting fiction submissions of any kind.
How to contact: Submissions should be sent directly to: rob [at] stuartagency.com. For nonfiction, please send query letter outlining your credentials along with proposal.
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