Literary Services
Connecting writers with readers through …
Publishing Consultation
- Strategic alignment consideration for how a book(s) can serve your larger mission and goals for your networks of influence and aggregated audiences.
- Timelines and action steps for accomplishing the book(s) you want to create.
- Manuscript creation plan which may include acquiring a collaborative writer (finding the right fit, advising and executing author-writer agreement, supervising writer’s work and managing process).
Editorial Services
- Concept development for strategic benefit, marketplace positioning, and reader appeal.
- Audience identification for clarifying what you want to say to whom, what kind of experience you want them to have, and how best to lead them through it to maximize reader engagement and eventual word-of-mouth promotion.
- Content delivery evaluation for potential formats and channels, from self-publishing to conventional publishing, and for determining how much of the manuscript and what kind of proposal materials are needed for preferred options.
- Pre-representation services comprise flat-fee options scaled to the amount of work involved.
Literary Representation
- Proposal development for maximizing appeal to publishing candidates.
- Pitching projects, negotiating deals, reviewing contracts with transparency, fierce advocacy, and tact.
- Supervising launch after contract signing as advisor and advocate.
- Your personal reader and consultant for shaping your writing trajectory and deciding on which books, when, with whom and for whom, will accomplish your goals in sustainable ways.
Books I have agented include:
Andy Crouch, The Life We’re Looking For
Philip Yancey, Where the Light Fell
Dr. Paul Brand and Philip Yancey, Fearfully and Wonderfully
Ian Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stabile, The Road Back to You
Tod Bolsinger, Canoeing the Mountains
Peter Enns, How the Bible Actually Works
Jared Byas, Love Matters More
Kelly Flanagan, The Unhiding of Elijah Campbell
Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz
Peter Scazzero, Emotionally Healthy Spirituality
James Bryan Smith, The Good and Beautiful You
Melanie Dale, Calm the H*ck Down
Makoto Fujimura, Art + Faith
Richard J. Foster, Learning Humility
W. Lee Warren M.D., I’ve Seen the End of You
Krispin Mayfield, Attached to God
Tracy Groot, Madman
Jillana Goble, A Love-Stretched Life
Mark Labberton, Called
M. Craig Barnes, The Pastor as Minor Poet
Donald McCullough, The Wisdom of Pelicans
Eugene Peterson, Leap Over a Wall
Luci Shaw, Adventure of Ascent
Brian McLaren, We Make the Road by Walking
Walter Wangerin Jr., The Book of God
Amy and Jeffrey Olrick, The Six Needs of Every Child
Jim Wallis, America’s Original Sin
Leighton Ford, The Attentive Life
Do you want help in connecting to your readers?
Contact me now for a schedule of flat-fee services, which I prefer to billable hours because cost, outcome, and timeframes are clear and predictable. This approach benefits both of us, maximizes a productive process, and identifies the benefits to your project.
