What Agents Do for Their Clients CD

Jennifer Rofe is an associate agent with the Andrea Brown Literary Agency. She handles children's fiction projects only, from picture books through young adult, and is particularly interested in literary, multicultural, offbeat, paranormal, and commercial-with-heart material. She enjoys magical-realism and reality-based fantasy; ghost stories (though not gore); stubborn characters who learn lessons the hard way; and unassuming heroes and underdogs. She is currently interested in acquiring commercial, boy-friendly adventures and is always looking for projects that simultaneously tug at her heartstrings and make her laugh out loud. She considers herself an editorial agent in that she works with her clients to strengthen their manuscripts before presenting them to editors. Some of her sales include The Down To Earth Guide To Global Warming by Laurie David and Cambria Gordon, Scholastic's lead title for Fall 2007; Milagros, The Girl From Away, a magical-realism middle grade by Meg Medina (Christy Ottaviano Books/Holt); The Farwalker's Quest, a middle-grade fantasy by Joni Sensel (Bloomsbury); Paris Pan Takes The Dare, a commercial middle-grade by Cynthea Liu (Putnam/Puffin); Before You Were Here, Mi Amor a bilingual picture book by Samantha Vamos (Viking); and The Year The Swallows Came Early, a literary middle-grade by Kathryn Fitzmaurice (The Bowen Press/HarperCollins). She will conduct consultation appointments and present, "What Agents Do For Their Clients."

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