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NAME
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Deborah Schneider
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AGENCY
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Gelfman Schneider
250 West 57th Street, Suite 2122
New York,
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10107
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AAR MEMBER
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Yes
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AGENCY PHONE
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(212) 245-1993
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AGENCY FAX
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(212) 245-8678
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EMAIL
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deborah@gelfmanschneider.com
Does not accept email queries.
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AGENCY WEB SITE
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FICTION GENRES
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Literary Fiction
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Chick Lit
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True Crime
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Mystery
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Commercial Fiction
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Women's Fiction
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Historical Fiction
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Thrillers/Suspense
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NONFICTION GENRES
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History
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Biography
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Food & Lifestyle
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Politics
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Science
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Women's Issues
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Psychology
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Health & Fitness
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CURRENT STATUS
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This agent does not currently accept unsolicited queries
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MORE INFORMATION
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SPECIAL INTERESTS
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Also interested in nonfiction related to Biological Sciences, Earth Science, Fashion, Journalism, and Language Arts/Linguistics
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DOES NOT REPRESENT
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Does not represent science fiction, romance, or children’s books
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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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She is not seeking new clients at this time
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MANUSCRIPT FONT FACE PREFERENCE
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MANUSCRIPT FONT SIZE PREFERENCE
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FACTS/TIDBITS
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Some of her clients include Jeffery Deaver, Ann Ross, David Fuller, David Rabe, Tracey Chevalier (US), Brian D'Amato, Brian Freeman, Alison Gaylin & Meg Gardiner.
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EDUCATION
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NEW DEALS
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PAST/PRESENT CLIENTS
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Devil Wears Prada
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Lauren Weisberger
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Chick Lit
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Commercial Fiction
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Women's Fiction
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Doubleday Books; (April 15, 2003) |
When narrator Andrea Sachs goes to work for Miranda Priestly, the all-powerful magazine editor, Andrea learns it's hard work to have a primadonna devil as your boss
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Girl With a Pearl Earring
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Tracy Chevalier
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Women's Fiction
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Historical Fiction
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Dutton Books; (December 27, 1999) |
A fictional portrayal of 17th century Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer and the secrets behind his mysterious anonymous portrait "Girl with a Pearl Earring"
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The Broken Window
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Jeffery Deaver
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Commercial Fiction
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Thrillers/Suspense
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Simon & Schuster |
The next in the bestselling Lincoln Rhyme sereies. Lincoln’s cousin has been arrested for murder. The case seems airtight, but when he looks into it, Rhyme begins to suspect that he has stumbled onto an especially devious serial killer, one who uses cutting-edge data-mining techniques to steal the identities of his victims and of the innocent people he frames for his crimes.
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In The Courts of the Sun
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Brian D'Amato
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Commercial Fiction
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Multi-Cultural
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Dutton |
According to the ancient Maya, December 21, 2012, could be the day the world ends. In this ambitious novel, a modern-day descendant of the Maya, Jed DeLanda, goes back in time to save mankind. Well, he doesn’t go back physically; that’s not possible in D’Amato’s world, but it is possible to send back the consciousness of a person and to place it inside the mind of someone living in the past. The plan was to put Jed’s mind inside the body of a Mayan king in the year 664 CE, but, instead, he winds up inside the head of a man about to be killed by ritual sacrifice. Can Jed keep his host alive long enough to save the world?
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SweetSmoke
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David Fuller
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Fantasy
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Multi-Cultural
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Hyperion |
Mystery novels, ever in need of fresh points of view, are given to strange genre hybrids like Fuller's debut novel: part investigative procedural, part narrative of American slave life. Cassius, a secretly literate slave on a Civil War–era Virginia tobacco plantation, is determined to track down whoever killed his mentor and surrogate mother, Emoline Justice, a free black woman.
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The Agency
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Ally O'Brien
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Chick Lit
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St. Martins |
Driven London literary agency Tess Drake has been toying with the idea of quitting the agency and opening her own. So when her boss dies and Tess’ archenemy Cosima takes control of the agency, it seems like a perfect time to exit. Oh, she’s also sleeping with Cosima’s husband, and the police are suddenly very interested in her because they believe she killed her boss. Tess has to watch her back now that everything and everyone is suspect. O’Brien’s novel is as cutthroat, merciless, and entertaining as a celebrity gossip Web site
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Dare to Die
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Carolyn Hart
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Mystery
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Thrillers/Suspense
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William Morrow |
Annie and Max Darling are completely unprepared when the arrival of a mysterious young woman shocks their sea island and stirs up more than just gossip. Things take a turn for the worse when Annie invites Iris to the pavillion party, and one of their guests is murdered. Annie and Max find themselves at the mercy of an unknown assailant - and all they know is, it's one of their friends.
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Listening Below the Noise: A Meditation on the Practice of Silence
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Ann LeClaire
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Self-Help
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Memoirs
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Spirituality
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Women's Issues
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Nature/Ecology
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Harper |
Against the cacophony that pervades our lives, novelist LeClaire (The Lavender Hour) offers a persuasive antidote: silence. Sixteen years ago, LeClaire decided to devote a 24-hour period to not speaking, and it became a twice-a-month practice. LeClaire draws deeply on this experience in calling for a wholesale rethinking of noise and a greater appreciation for quietude and nature.
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Good Things I Wish You
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Manette Ansay
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Women's Fiction
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Multi-Cultural
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Harper |
At the age of 42, novelist Jeanette Hochmann—recently divorced from her husband of twelve years—struggles to reassemble her life with her three year old daughter, Heidi. Now she’s stalled on her latest project: a book based on the friendship between the 19th century German pianist Clara Schumann and her husband’s handsome protégée, the young composer Johannes Brahms. Through a chance encounter, Jeanie meets a man from Clara’s birthplace of Leipzig, Germany, a mysterious entrepreneur who offers his help with translations—and more. There are things about men and women, he insists, that do not change.
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Heartless
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Alison Gaylin
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Chick Lit
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Mystery
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Horror
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Thrillers/Suspense
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NAL |
From the moment magazine editor Zoe Greene joins her lover Warren in San Esteban, an idyllic Mexican village, something is strange about the place and its people—from the black crosses that hang throughout the town to the blood-tipped spines of its strange indigenous plants to Warren’s odd disappearances. Then, when tourists are found murdered, Zoe begins to ask questions. At even greater risk, she’s finding the answers.
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The Memory Collector
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Meg Gardiner
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Chick Lit
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Commercial Fiction
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Thrillers/Suspense
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Dutton |
Jo is called to the scene of an aircraft inbound from London to help deal with a passenger who is behaving erratically. She figures out that he’s got anterograde amnesia, and can’t form new memories.Jo realizes her patient’s addled mind may hold the key to preventing something terrible from happening in her beloved San Francisco. In order to prevent it, she will have to get deeper into the life of a patient than she ever has before, hoping the truth emerges from the fog of his mind in time to save her city—and herself.
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In the Dark
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Brian Freeman
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Mystery
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Commercial Fiction
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Minotaur |
In the summer following his junior year in high school (and long before he became a detective), Minnesotan Jonathan Stride fell in love with Cindy Starr. But in the midst of their bliss, Cindy’s sister, Laura, was brutally killed in the woods near their suburban Duluth home. 30 Years later When Cindy’s high-school friend Tish returns to town with news that she’s writing a book about Laura’s death, Jonathan wants more than anything to let the past remain the past, but Tish’s presence prompts him to reconsider the case—and the possibility that a local citizen may have gotten away with murder.
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The Beach House
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Jane Green
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Chick Lit
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Women's Fiction
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Plume |
Sixty-five-year-old Nan Powell has lived comfortably and happily in Nantucket since the suicide of her husband, Everett, so she is thrown for a loop when she learns that she is in danger of losing her beloved house. Nan decides to turn her home into a bed-and-breakfast. The guests she gets for the summer are all at a crossroads in their lives in one way or another, and Nan finds herself opening up to her guests and enjoying their company, but she is shocked when she discovers a person close to one of them has a startling connection to her. Peopled with likable, flawed, realistic characters and moving seamlessly between them, this is Green’s best novel in years, a compelling, unputdownable read
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Dinosaurs on the Roof
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David Rabe
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Women's Fiction
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Humor/Satire
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Simon & Schuster |
n his entertaining second novel, Obie Award–winning playwright Rabe (In the Boom Boom Room ) presents an overly eventful day-in-the-life of two women in smalltown Iowa. Elderly Bernice Doorley is convinced that in the company of Reverend Tauke and his followers, she will be on her way to heaven that evening, which, according to the reverend, is when the rapture is due to arrive. Bernice's main concern is who will take care of her beloved pets, particularly her old dog, General
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LINKS
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http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/gslitagts1/
This is Deborah Schneider's webpage on PublishersMarketplace
Interview with Deborah Schneider, printed on Backspace.org
http://www.bksp.org/DschneiderInt.html
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