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NAME
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Janet Reid
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AGENCY
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FinePrint Literary Management
240 West 35th Street #500
New York,
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10001
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AAR MEMBER
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Yes
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AGENCY PHONE
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(212) 279-1776
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AGENCY FAX
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EMAIL
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janet@fineprintlit.com
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AGENCY WEB SITE
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http://www.jetreidliterary.com
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FICTION GENRES
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Literary Fiction
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Chick Lit
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Mystery
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Commercial Fiction
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Women's Fiction
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Thrillers/Suspense
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Children's
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Military/Espionage
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Offbeat/Quirky
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Middle Grade
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Graphic Novels
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NONFICTION GENRES
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History
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Biography
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How-To
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Drama/Music
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Memoirs
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Art
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Adventure/True Story
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Current Affairs
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Business
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Pop Culture
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Narrative
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Finance
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True Crime
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Juvenile
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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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She is particularly interested in: mysteries, offbeat literary fiction, justice and death penalty issues, African politics and narrative
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DOES NOT REPRESENT
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Does not represent science fiction, poetry, plays, screenplays, westerns
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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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Always include the first 3-5 pages of a novel or sample chapter with a query (in the body of the email if querying electronically)
- Email queries to janet@fineprintlit.com (no attachments)
- Snail Mail/fiction: query with first 5-10 pages & #10 SASE
- Snail Mail/nonfiction: query with proposal and two sample chapters & SASE
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MANUSCRIPT FONT FACE PREFERENCE
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Times New Roman
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MANUSCRIPT FONT SIZE PREFERENCE
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12 point
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FACTS/TIDBITS
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She keeps a blog at http://www.jetreidliterary.blogspot.com with information helpful to queriers.
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She has 15 years of book publicity with regional and national clients
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Recent sales include Even by Andrew Grant (Thomas Dunne Books: forthcoming), The Breach by Patrick Lee (Harper: forthcoming), Chasing Smoke by Bill Cameron (Bleak House: Nov 2008), Standfast by Kennedy Foster (Pocket: forthcoming 2009), The Digital Plague by Jeff Somers (Orbit: 2008), First Contact by Evan Mandery (Harper: forthcoming 2009), Master Detective by John Reisinger (Kensington: 2006), Lost Dog by Bill Cameron (Midnight Ink: 2007), Grave Imports by Eric Stone (Bleak House: 2007), The Little Book of Curses and Maledictions for Everyday Use by DawnRae Downton (Skyhorse: 2009).
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EDUCATION
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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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Master Detective: The Life and Crimes of Ellis Parker
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John Reisinger
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Biography
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Kensington; 2006 |
The panic and chaos surrounding the Lindbergh kidnapping case, as well as tactics of crime fighting from the early twentieth century through the Depression, come wonderfully alive in this thoroughly researched, well-crafted biography
View book at Amazon
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The Electric Church
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Jeff Somers
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Thrillers/Suspense
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Orbit (September 25, 2007) |
A near-future political thriller about an assassin on the run from both the cops and the Monks--a group of religious fanatics set to take over the world
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Confessions of a Former Child: A Therapist's Memoir
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Dan Tomasulo
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Memoirs
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Graywolf Press |
Daniel J. Tomasulo is a psychologist, psychodrama trainer, and writer on faculty at New Jersey City University. In this honest and witty debut, he chronicles and confesses his childhood delusions, his particularly challenging experiences as a parent, and his life as a psychologist.
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Dreaming of Gwen Stefani
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Evan Mandery
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Literary Fiction
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Offbeat/Quirky
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Ig Publishing (February 1, 2007) |
When Mortimer Taylor Coleridge stumbles on the episode of TV's Behind the Music featuring Gwen Stefani, his life is never the same; he is preparing himself for the day when the glamorous star, who has declared hot dogs as her favorite food, will come strolling into his establishment
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Lost Dog
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Bill Cameron
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Mystery
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Midnight Ink (April 1, 2007) |
Life takes an unexpected turn for Peter McKrall when a search for his nieces stuffed dog leads him to something else entirely: a bullet-riddled corpse
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Grave Imports (Ray Sharp Novels)
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Eric Stone
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Mystery
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Bleak House Books (September 18, 2007) |
A routine investigation into a Chinese art supplies company unearths a smuggling ring. The trail leads through a warehouse filled with looted antiquities in the boomtown of Shenzhen, just north of Hong Kong; to the lair of a vicious ex-South Vietnamese general now living in Thailand; and finally to the murderous Khmer Rouge in the ancient temples and more recent killing fields of Cambodia. Based on the sordid facts of the illegal trade in stolen Cambodian art, GRAVE IMPORTS is a hotpot of high adventure in exotic locales, fascinating characters, high commerce, terrible crime and one mixed-up, reluctant hero trying to shed light into some of the darkest corners of Asia.
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Marching Up Madison Avenue: How I Beat the Entrepreneurial Odds Armed with a Pencil and My Imagination
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Richard Gilbert
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Memoirs
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Business
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Behler Publications (May 1, 2008) |
In a 40-year career Richard Gilbert and his intrepid staff of copywriters, designers and artists at Gilbert Advertising changed how Americans thought about fur coats, foreign languages, cars, perfume and the Vietnam War. This is his story, and ours.
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Flight of the Hornbill (Ray Sharp Novel)
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Eric Stone
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Mystery
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Bleak House Books (October 15, 2008) |
Loosely based on the facts of the Bre-X gold fraud of 1997, Flight of the Hornbill is a thrill ride through an exotic Asian landscape as corporate investigator, Ray Sharp, sets out to discover the truth. Why does a Frenchman want to kill him? Who's been shoved out of a helicopter, and why? What's Ray's ex-wife, and her boyfriend, got to do with it?
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Siesta Lane: A Cabin, No Running Water, and a Year Living Green
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Amy Minato
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Memoirs
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Nature/Ecology
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Skyhorse Publishing (January 24, 2009) |
Poet, Oregon Arts fellow, and PW book reviewer Amy Minato's chronology of her "unplugged year wriggling free from a consumer life" on SIESTA LANE with seven people, eight acres, one telephone, three cars, seven unheated cabins, one main house and fifteen miles to the nearest town
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Even
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Andrew Grant
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Mystery
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St. Martin's Minotaur (May 12, 2009) |
Set up for a murder while visiting New York, Royal Navy intelligence operative David Trevellyan must act alone to clear his name. With no idea who's a friend and who's a foe, he penetrates deep into a huge international conspiracy. The price of failure will be death, and the reward for success will be redemption
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10 Laws of the Dinosaur: Keeping the Family Doctor from Going Extinct
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Lucy Hornstein
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Memoirs
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Psychology
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Kaplan Publishing (August 4, 2009) |
A family practitioner tells stories of her experiences and lessons learned over her career in a shrinking field
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LINKS
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http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/JanetReid/
This is the agency webpage on PublishersMarketplace
This is Janet Reid's personal blog
http://www.jetreidliterary.blogspot.com
This is a blog in which Ms. Reid critiques selected queries
http://queryshark.blogspot.com/
http://www.writersmarket.com/askagent_prev.asp?id=7054
Janet Reid answers Q's at WritersMarket
This is Janet Reid's response to our symposium question, Writer's Fears
http://www.agentquery.com/symposium_writerfears.aspx
This is Janet Reid's response to our symposium question, Publishing Changes
http://www.agentquery.com/symposium_pubchanges.aspx
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