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- Jonathan Lyons
- Jonathan Lyons is a literary agent at Curtis Brown, Ltd., where represents a select list of authors of biographies, history, science, pop culture, sports, general narrative non-fiction, mysteries, thrillers, science fiction and fantasy, and young adult fiction, in addition to serving as subagent in the United States for several agencies in the UK. Having previously run translation rights at McIntosh & Otis and Folio Literary Management, Jonathan currently oversees Curtis Brown’s translation rights department. Jonathan is also a licensed publishing attorney with the boutique entertainment law firm Savur & Pellecchia, a member of The Authors Guild, and a member of the Contracts Committee of the Association of Authors’ Representatives, Inc.
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7 comments:
In the spirit of self-promotion, I'M delighted to announce that my novel, Between Clubs , is also a semifinalist!
Good luck to David ... this is very exciting, but I don't know if my fingernails will survive the gnawing.
Congrats!
Thanks for the promo, Jonathan. You're good people.
This event is one long marathon, isn't it, John?
Be strong!
It is a marathon, one conducted while continually chewing one's nails. Good luck in the contest.
Thus far the readers love me and the official reviewers don't like me much at all ... though I have a feeling they skimmed after page 60.
Sigh.
Jonathan,
Knowing that you enjoyed the "Knocking Over the Fishbowl" excerpt (which I am in the process of reading, per your recommendation), I wanted to ask if it is representative of the "polished" condition that a manuscript should be in for the query process.
In other words, if a query grabbed you and you requested a partial, and then the partial showed up and was at a comparable level to the Fishbowl excerpt, would it pass? Or would you want it to be farther along?
I see on David's site that you are currently his agent, but given that the process he went through was a little... different, I wasn't sure I could take your representation of him as my answer.
Thank you,
Kristan
I signed David up years ago, based on the manuscript for Knocking Over the Fishbowl. We weren't able to place at the time, but I eventually sold his next two books to St. Martin's.
However, getting I think to your question, when David queried me Knocking Over the Fishbowl was actually done, and not just a partial. It was extremely well-written and was both stylistically and in subject matter right up my alley.
Ah, okay. Thank you!
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