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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:
If they do this right, along the lines of THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA, it could be very good.
Too bad it's not HBO or SHOW that picked it up.
Actually, if they want a good model to follow, they should look at the Canadian series Made In Canada (or The Industry) which was technically about the TV business, but set a very high standard for satires about office politics.
It had conniving, scheming, and hypocrisy in every episode, and one of the most comically awful bosses in TV history.
This sounds interesting.
Actually they have tried this before and failed. Just in 2008, Amy Sherman-Palladino of "Gilmore Girl" fame created a show with the wonderful Parker Posey as a book editor and Lauren Ambrose as her artistic sister. The series made it through seven episodes before being canceled. The wonderful thing (and I use "wonder" in the sense I can't believe this) about the series is the way in which Posey found her writers. Also, don't forget that Elaine in "Seinfeld" also worked as a book editor at one point and that her father in the series was based on the real novelist, a friend of Larry David, Richard Yates. If they want a model they should look at the newspaper segments of the final series of "The Wire," find some literary agent ( maybe named Leon, or Lowe, Leo) as a consultant and dig into the verities and pathos and comedy of the publishing game. Best Regards, Keith
Of course, right when I decide to cut cable for awhile. We'll see if it survives the first season. The reality of publishing-even if satirical- seems to disappoint many people.
I'd love to see this. Let's face it, they could just read a bunch of bad queries out loud, and get laughs that way.
(Not that any of mine are bad, of course.)
Hi, nice blog and interesting posts, thank you.
The closest our TV has got – here across the pond in the UK – to publishing was a comedy series set in a bookshop. It was called Black Books; it was a bit surreal and silly but had quite a cult following, I believe.
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