The people on the other end of those phone lines may well be sitting behind paper-strewn desks in filthy bathrobes, sweating over the thirtieth draft of an unsold novel, but here the pace is brisk and upbeat.įolio, which was founded by Hoffman, Jeff Kleinman, and Paige Wheeler in 2006, has agreed to let a Poets & Writers Magazine reporter spend a day as a fly on the wall to capture a behind-the-scenes snapshot of a literary agency. Instead, inside the individual offices, where the doors seem to be always open, agents are tapping away on keyboards or purring into telephones. Lots of young, attractive people with expensive-looking hair-interns, one surmises-dart about on important errands, and while beautiful collections of books adorn many of the walls, nobody appears to be actually reading one. Folio's midtown Manhattan offices are designed to look like a cross between "an Internet start-up and a public library," according to Scott Hoffman, one of the firm's three founding partners, which explains the minimalist furniture and open-plan work area as well as a row of stations reminiscent of study carrels lining one wall of the main room.īut the office has the energy of an Internet start-up too. No more gleeful laughter echoes off the walls of the agency's central work space instead, there is a buzz of earnest industry about the place. The rest of the day, a mildly overcast Wednesday in early April, is quieter. "That was a really great way to start the day," Brower remarks later. The offer is exciting because Poore's debut novel, a dark comedy about the devil coming to life in the 1960s, to be published in the United States by Ecco this month, is such a deeply American book that the Folio agents had worried they would have trouble placing it overseas. Molly Jaffa, who handles international rights for Folio Literary Management in New York City, has just learned that the German publisher Bastei Lubbe has made an offer for the German-language rights to Up Jumps the Devil by Michael Poore, who is represented by Folio agent Michelle Brower, and now the two women are celebrating. Haver is an MD and founder of a medical practice that focuses on women in middle age, and Rodale said the book offers “a dramatic new vision for living well with the changes brought on by perimenopause and menopause.” Haver was represented by Heather Jackson at Heather Jackson Literary.THE day begins with two agents hugging each other and dancing around the office, laughing in delight. Mary Claire Haver sold world rights to The New Menopause to Rodale’s Marnie Cochran (who previously acquired the author’s The Galveston Diet). Hollywood, and showing up to each stage of the dating/relationship cycle as one’s most authentic self.” Adriana Stimola at the Stimola Literary Studio brokered the agreement. The publisher said Guenther, a therapist and TikTok star known on the platform as TherapyJeff, is writing “a road map to healthy relationships in the modern dating landscape.” The book, cowritten by Kate Happ and set for 2024, “takes readers through unlearning toxic family dynamics, circumventing lies told by capitalism and
Set for a 2024 release, Strange Folk explores “the intersection between the power of the land, the darkness of human nature, and the healing force of community.”įor Little, Brown’s Voracious imprint, Thea Diklich-Newell acquired Jeff Guenther’s currently untitled book about creating healthier relationships in a six-figure, world rights deal.
Strange Folk, Atria said, is a “fantastical, suspenseful literary novel” that follows a young woman who, after two decades, comes home to her estranged family in Appalachia, where the community has been unnerved by the mysterious death of a local teacher. Dyer was represented by Alexandra Machinist at Creative Artists Agency in the two-book, North American rights agreement. For Atria, Natalie Hallak acquired Alli Dyer’s debut novel Strange Folk.
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