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NAME
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Jonathan Lyons
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AGENCY
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Lyons Literary LLC
27 West 20th Street, Suite 1003
New York,
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10011
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AAR MEMBER
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Yes
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AGENCY PHONE
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AGENCY FAX
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EMAIL
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info@lyonsliterary.com
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AGENCY WEB SITE
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http://www.lyonsliterary.com
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FICTION GENRES
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Literary Fiction
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Science 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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Fantasy
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Women's Fiction
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Humor/Satire
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Thrillers/Suspense
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Multi-Cultural
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Adventure
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Gay & Lesbian
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Military/Espionage
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Offbeat/Quirky
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Graphic Novels
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NONFICTION GENRES
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History
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Sports
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Celebrity
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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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Drama/Music
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Multi-Cultural
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Cookbooks
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Memoirs
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Travel
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Adventure/True Story
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Current Affairs
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Business
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Women's Issues
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Pop Culture
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Narrative
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Health & Fitness
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Pets
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Gay & Lesbian
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Military
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Film & Entertainment
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True Crime
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Cultural/Social Issues
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Humor
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Journalism
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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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His areas of interest include narrative non-fiction, history, biographies, food writing, women's issues, pop culture, true crime, sports, mysteries, thrillers/suspense, and literary fiction.
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In regard to fantasy and science fiction, he is only interested in urban fantasy (paranormal mysteries in particular), or near future science fiction; and these stories absolutely must be set on earth
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DOES NOT REPRESENT
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He does not represent romance, poetry, short story collections, picture books, chapter books, juvenile or YA, and middle grade projects.
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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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This agent only accepts electronic queries sent via the agency website.
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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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He is a licensed attorney in the state of New York and teaches a Mediabistro.com course entitled "Understanding and Negotiating Your Book Contract."
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EDUCATION
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Graduate of Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (JD) and Washington University in St. Louis (BA).
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For a complete list of this agent's most recent deals, we recommend a subscription to Publishers Marketplace
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NEW DEALS
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PAST/PRESENT CLIENTS
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Tales from the Expat Harem: Foreign Women in Modern Turkey
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Anastasia M. Ashman (Editor), Jennifer Eaton Gökmen (Editor)
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Genres:
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Multi-Cultural
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Travel
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Women's Issues
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Seal Press (March, 2006) |
A collection of essays by foreign women candidly reflecting on their experiences within the Turkish culture.
View book at Amazon
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When Charlotte Comes Home
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Maureen Millea Smith
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Genres:
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Literary Fiction
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Gay & Lesbian
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Alyson Publications (May, 2006) |
A teenager explores the wonder and heartache of love amid the burgeoning tensions of the Vietnam War and the illness of his younger sister.
View book at Amazon
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The Path Not Taken: Using International Law to Promote Peace and Security
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Thomas Schoenbaum
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Genres:
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Politics
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Cambridge University Press (June 2006) |
This book is a comprehensive analysis of the relevance of international law to the conduct of international relations and foreign policy
View book at Amazon
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Jetpack Dreams: One Man's Up and Down (but Mostly Down) Search for the Greatest Invention that Never Was
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Mac Montandon
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Genres:
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History
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Pop Culture
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Humor
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Da Capo Press (Spring 2008) |
A journalist chronicles the history and science (and pseudo-science) of jetpacks and rocket belts.
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Oil!
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Upton Sinclair
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Genres:
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History
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Politics
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Penguin Group (Summer 2007) |
McIntosh & Otis, Inc. client.
View book at Amazon
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Murder in America
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Bruce Chadwick
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Genres:
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History
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WIley (Fall 2008) |
McIntosh & Otis, Inc. client.
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Washington Irving: An American Original
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Brian Jay Jones
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Genres:
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History
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Biography
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Arcade Publishing (January 3, 2008) |
Jones renders Washington Irving in all his flawed splendor, offering as never before human portrait of the often contrasting public and private lives of this true American original.
View book at Amazon
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Women in the Line of Fire: What You Should Know About Women in the Military
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Erin Solaro
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Genres:
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Politics
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Current Affairs
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Military
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Cultural/Social Issues
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Seal Press (August 2006) |
In 2004, Erin Solaro went to Iraq to study American servicewomen—what they were doing, how well they were doing it, how they were faring in combat—and in 2005, she went to Afghanistan on the same mission; in this book, part personal odyssey, extensively researched, she convincingly argues that women not only deserve full participation in the American military experiment, but that they have proven their right to bear arms in defense of the Republic alongside their brother soldiers
View book at Amazon
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Scott Free
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Marijane Meaker
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Genres:
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Mystery
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Thrillers/Suspense
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Gay & Lesbian
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Carroll & Graf (March 2007) |
McIntosh & Otis, Inc. client.
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Serving Memories
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Lorraine Bodger
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Genres:
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Food & Lifestyle
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Clarkson Potter (Potter Style), forthcoming |
A guided journal to collecting, testing, and modernizing family recipes, as well as capturing the stories behind the food.
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Who Moved My Kingdom?
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Josh Karp
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Genres:
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Sports
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Memoirs
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Spirituality
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Pop Culture
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Humor
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Chronicle Books; forthcoming |
Josh Karp explores the link between golf and spirituality by playing with various shamans, mystics, and eccentrics, obtains enlightenment, and improves his handicap along the way.
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Damnation Falls
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Edward Wright
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Genres:
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Mystery
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Thrillers/Suspense
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St. Martin's Press; forthcoming |
Shamus Award Winner Edward Wright's crime novel about a disgraced Chicago newspaper columnist who agrees to ghostwrite a biography of his childhood friend and former Tennessee governor, but instead finds himself investigating a series of ghastly murders and a town legend from the Civil War in the Tennessee hills.
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The Suicide Collectors
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David Oppegaard
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Genres:
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Literary Fiction
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Thrillers/Suspense
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Offbeat/Quirky
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St. Martin's Press; forthcoming |
Set in the near future where ninety percent of the Earth's population has committed suicide over a period of five years in a plague of emotional ennui, and one man's quest across the country to discover a cure.
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The Peach Grower's Almanac
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Elaine di Rollo
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Genres:
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Women's Fiction
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Historical Fiction
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Crown Publishing Group |
Set in 1850s England, the novel follows twin sisters who find different ways to escape their stifling upbringing and their eccentric father, who wishes them to be curators of his huge personal museum of peculiar artifacts. Chatto will publish in the U.K.
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I Am A Man
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Joe Starita
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Genres:
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History
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St. Martin's Press |
Pulitzer Prize finalist Joe Starita's biography of Chief Standing Bear, whose 1879 habeas corpus suit against the U.S. government led to the landmark ruling recognizing that Native Americans were persons under the law and subject to the benefits of the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Red-headed Stepchild
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Jaye Wells
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Fantasy
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Orbit |
Three book deal sold at auction revolving around Sabina Kane, a half-mage/half-vampire assassin with divided loyalties
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Brick Addicts
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Jonathan Bender
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Genres:
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Pop Culture
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John Wiley & Sons |
One man's quest through the world of LEGO to become a master builder.
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A Theory of All Things
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Author: |
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Peggy Leon
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Genres:
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Literary Fiction
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The Permanent Press |
The story of five grown siblings facing a number of simultaneous crises and haunted by past tragedy, the desertion of a mother and the suicide of a brother.
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Three Days to Dead
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Author: |
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Kelly Meding
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Genres:
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Fantasy
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Bantam Dell |
A supernatural bounty hunter wakes up in a morgue in someone else's body, with only three days to stop an impending war between humans and paranormals before she dies again.
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LINKS
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This is the agent's blog
http://lyonsliterary.blogspot.com/
This is the agent's webpage on PublishersMarketplace
http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/jonathanlyons/
This is the course the agent teaches through Mediabistro.com
http://www.mediabistro.com/courses/cache/crs2906.asp
This is the agent's response to our symposium question, Publishing Changes
http://www.agentquery.com/symposium_pubchanges.aspx
This is the agent's response to our symposium question, Pitching Editors
http://www.agentquery.com/symposium_pitcheditors.aspx
http://www.guidetoliteraryagents.com/blog/Agent+Advice+Jonathan+Lyons+Of+Lyons+Literary.aspx
This is an interview with Mr. Lyons on Guide to Literary Agents Editor's Blog
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