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NAME
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Jeff Kleinman
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AGENCY
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Folio Literary Management
505 8th Ave, Suite 603
New York,
NY
10018
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AAR MEMBER
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Yes
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AGENCY PHONE
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(212) 400-1494 x24
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AGENCY FAX
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(212) 967-0977
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EMAIL
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jkleinman at foliolit (dot) com
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AGENCY WEB SITE
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http://www.foliolit.com/
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FICTION GENRES
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Literary Fiction
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Commercial Fiction
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Historical Fiction
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Thrillers/Suspense
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Short Stories
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Military/Espionage
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NONFICTION GENRES
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History
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Celebrity
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Biography
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Politics
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Parenting
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How-To
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Multi-Cultural
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Self-Help
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Memoirs
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Travel
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Art
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Business
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Pop Culture
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Narrative
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Psychology
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Health & Fitness
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Nature/Ecology
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Pets
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Military
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CURRENT STATUS
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This agent accepts queries
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MORE INFORMATION
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SPECIAL INTERESTS
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Nonfiction (especially narrative nonfiction with a historical bent, but also health, parenting, aging, nature, pets, how-to, travel, nature, ecology, politics, military, espionage, equestrian, memoir, biography)
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Fiction (very well-written, character driven novels; suspense, thrillers; otherwise mainstream commercial and literary fiction)
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DOES NOT REPRESENT
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Does not children’s, romance, mysteries, westerns, poetry, or screenplays, novels about serial killers, suicide, or children in peril (kidnapped, killed, raped, etc.)
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He avoid subjects like rape, suicide, and manic-depression; and thrillers in which there's some terrorist organization bent on destroying America or the world
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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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He prefers email queries - he responds to them faster
- Please do not "multiple" query agents in this agency
- Email: query with first 5 pages pasted in the body of the email and QUERY in the subject line
- Snail Mail: query with SASE
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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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EDUCATION
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Graduate of University of Virginia (BA), University of Chicago (MA), and Case Western Reserve School of Law (JD)
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NEW DEALS
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PAST/PRESENT CLIENTS
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The Memory of Running: A Novel
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Ron McLarty
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Commercial Fiction
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Viking Books (December 29, 2004) |
Meet Smithson "Smithy" Ide, an overweight, friendless, chain-smoking, forty-three-year-old drunk who works as a quality control inspector at a toy action-figure factory in Rhode Island--by all accounts a loser--but when Smithy’s life of quiet desperation is brutally interrupted by tragedy, he stumbles across his old Raleigh bicycle and impulsively sets off on an epic journey that might give him one last chance to become the person he always wanted to be
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Darwin's Fox
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Holly Menino
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Nature/Ecology
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North Point Press; forthcoming |
This book examines how humans encroach on wildlife habits, and the scientific breakthroughs that drive the conservation movement
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Song of the Crow
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Layne Maheu
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Literary Fiction
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Unbridled Books (June 15, 2006) |
In a surprising take on the tale of Noah's ark and the flood, Maheu's beguiling debut unfolds from the perspective of a crow and offers a fable that beautifully probes the relationship between creatures of the heavens and those of the underworld
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A Home on the Field: How One Championship Team Inspires Hope for the Revival of Small Town America
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Paul Cuadros
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Multi-Cultural
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Memoirs
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Rayo (September 5, 2006) |
Cuadros, a reporter, went to Siler City, North Carolina, to investigate the changes wrought by Latinos arriving to work in small-town poultry-processing plants, and soon became part of the story when he lobbied Jordan-Matthews High School to create a team for its soccer-loving Latino youth, and three seasons later, he coached the Jets to a state championship
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Finn: A Novel
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Jon Clinch
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Literary Fiction
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Random House (February 20, 2007) |
The dark tale of Huck Finn's father
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LINKS
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http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/jkleinman/
This is his webpage on PublishersMarketplace
http://webdelsol.com/Algonkian/Classes/interview-JeffKleinman.htm
Interview with Jeff Kleinman on webdelsol.com
http://www.wordsmitten.com/2003jk_esq_interview.htm
Interview with Jeff Kleinman on wordsmitten.com
http://www.fictionfactor.com/interviews/kleinman.html
Interview with Jeff Kleinman on FictionFactor.com
This is Jeff Kleinman's response to our symposium question, When Agents Call...
http://www.agentquery.com/symposium_thecall.aspx
http://allagents.bksp.org/jeffguide.htm
This is an article from Jeff Kleinman about how to get the most out of writer's conferences
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