Stonesong operates a traditional literary agency division, representing a wide range of authors. Agents at Stonesong include Alison Fargis, Judy Linden, and Sarah Passick.
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Alison Fargis represents a wide range of commercially successful properties and is actively looking for cookbooks, pop culture, how-to, fashion, health/wellness, diet, parenting, and select children’s fiction and adult fiction that blurs the line between literary and commercial.
Her cookbook authors include Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito (Baked, Baked Explorations and Baked Favorites, Stewart, Tabori & Chang), Deb Perelman (The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook, Knopf), Adam Roberts (Keys to the Kitchen, Artisan), Linda Hinton Brown and Norrinda Brown Hayat (Brown Betty, Wiley), Hollis Wilder (Savory Bites, Stewart, Tabori & Chang), Yvonne Ruperti (Complete Idiot’s Guide to Artisan Bread, Alpha Books), and Amanda Rettke (Surprise Inside Cakes, William Morrow). Her craft and parenting authors include Khris Cochran (The DIY Bride, The DIY Bride Crafty Countdown, and The DIY Bride Affair to Remember, Taunton Press), Jaime Morrison Curtis (Prudent Advice, Andrews McMeel and My Prudent Advice, Chronicle), and Ryan Maconochie (This Is Your Book, Stewart, Tabori & Chang). Her humor authors include Andrew Kipple, Adam Kipple, and Luke Wherry (People of Walmart, People of Walmart 2, Sourcebooks) and Charles Dane Sherwood (2,001 Things to Do Before You Die, Barnes & Noble and Life’s Little Destruction Book, St. Martin’s Press).
In fiction for children she represents New York Times bestselling author Michael Buckley (The Sisters Grimm series, NERDS series, and Kel Gilligan, Diapered Daredevil, Amulet Books, and Hellfire Commandos, Abrams ComicArts) and Michael Teitelbaum (Backyard Sports series, Grosset & Dunlap and The Scary States of America, Delacorte). In fiction for adults she represents Alex Myers (Revolutionary, Simon & Schuster).
Judy Linden is always on the lookout for fresh voices and bold, new ideas and projects in the following categories: cookbooks and diet, design, fashion, exercise and health, relationships, parenting, pop culture, popular psychology business, spirituality, and select fiction. Her authors include celebrity dessert stylist Amy Atlas Sweet Designs: Bake It, Craft It, Style It (Hyperion/Disney), Cannelle et Vanille’s Aran Goyoaga Small Plates and Sweet Treats: My Family’s Journey to Gluten-free Cooking (Little, Brown), Design Sponge’s Grace Bonney (Book 2, to come), Charla Krupp New York Times Bestselling How Not to Look Old (Grand Central Press, twenty-four weeks on the bestseller lists), Today show regular Amy E. Goodman Wear This, Toss That (Atria/Simon and Schuster), Executive Producer Marsha Benko’sAntiques Roadshow: Behind the Scenes (Fireside/S&S), child development expert and Today show regular Dr. Robyn Silverman Good Girls Don’t Get Fat, and books with Petfinder.com, Why Files.org: The Science Behind the News, Shape magazine, Keller-Williams Realty, The American Yoga Association, Men’s Fitness magazine, among others.
Emmanuelle Morgen represents adult and children’s fiction, as well as narrative nonfiction in the areas of memoir, psychology, sociology, and popular science. In children’s books, she is looking for young adult and middle grade novels. In adult books, she is looking for women’s fiction, historical fiction, romance, and a certain type of thriller in which a team of people or a partnership battle impossible odds.
Emmanuelle represents Dear Author contributor Alison Atlee (The Type-Writer Girl, Gallery/Simon & Schuster), RITA nominees Alissa Johnson (Nearly a Lady, Berkley) and Marcella Burnard (Enemy Within, Berkley), Cecilia Grant (A Lady Awakened, Bantam), Laurie London (Bonded by Blood, Harlequin), Jeanette Murray (Honor Bound, Sourcebooks), Christina Phillips (Forbidden, Berkley), and Danielle Younge-Ullman (Falling Under, Plume).
In young adult fiction, she represents Jamie Blair (Leap of Faith, Simon & Schuster Children’s), Kathleen Peacock (The Hemlock Trilogy, Katherine Tegen Books), Louise Rozett (Confessions of an Angry Girl, Harlequin Teen), and Kat Zhang (What’s Left of Me, Harper Children’s).
Her nonfiction sales include food writer and memoirist Adrienne Kane’s Cooking and Screaming (Simon & Schuster), family therapist Catherine McCall’s UK bestseller When the Piano Stops (Seal Press), M.E. Thomas’s Hiding in Plain Sight (Crown), Candace Walsh’s Licking the Spoon (Seal Press), and Marie Claire editor Sarah Wexler’s Living Large (St. Martin’s).
Sarah Passick, Editorial Assistant, is a recent graduate from Tulane Univeristy and the New York University Publishing Institute. She is interested in acquiring narrative nonfiction and pop culture titles from and for twenty-somethings.