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agent : pam302mail-aaaqueries@yahoo.com
Pam Strickler
P. O. Box 16, Accord, NY 12404
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Nicola Cornick's e-book is Harlequin's #1 bestseller

Pamela Dean Strickler was senior editor for sixteen years at Ballantine Books and is now working as an authors' representative with her own company. She brings a passion for books and an inside understanding of the publishing business to the service of her clients.


years experience: 30 years plus in publishing.
GENRES & SPECIALTIES
Historical Fiction, Women's fiction, Romance.....Do NOT handle Nonfiction, Picture Books, Or Screenplays
BEST-KNOWN PROJECTS
As an agent, Pam has represented first novels such as Dorothea Benton Frank's SULLIVAN'S ISLAND (with SCG), Wendy Wax's SEVEN DAYS AND SEVEN NIGHTS and Kate Quinn's BLOOD FOR BLOOD.

MOST RECENT SALES/ FORTHCOMING BOOKS
Nicola Cornick's "The Brides of Fortune" trilogy, (summer '09) HQN

Kate Quinn's BLOOD FOR BLOOD ('10), Berkley

Kimberly Van Meter's first Romantic Suspense, TO CATCH A KILLER ('09) and a second novel, also three new SuperRomance novels, Harlequin Silhouette

Karen White Owens's YOU'RE ALL I NEED ('09) and a second romance, Kensington/Dafina

SPECIALIZED TRAINING, WORK EXPERIENCE, HONORS
Pam Strickler is a member of the Association of Authors' Representatives (AAR). She started her agency in 2001 and previously was associated as an independent agent with the Scovil Chichak Galen Agency of New York. She also worked 1995-99 as an independent manuscript editor.

Pam is concentrating the work of her agency on women's fiction, historical fiction, and romance. While on staff at Ballantine, she served as editor to such women's fiction authors as Fern Michaels and Jennifer Wilde. In historical fiction, two of Pam's bestselling Ballantine authors won the prestigious Western Writers of America Spur award for their frontier epics: Lucia St. Clair Robson and James Alexander Thom. Prior to Ballantine, Pam worked five years at Avon Books.

KEY PERSONNEL
Pam Strickler lives and works 100 miles north of Manhattan in the beautiful Hudson Valley/Catskills region of New York State.
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Please, no unsolicited manuscripts.
PREFER EMAIL queries, including a one page letter with a brief description of your plot, plus the first ten pages of your novel ALL PASTED IN to the body of the email. Sorry, unknown attachments will not be opened.

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