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NAME
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Jake Elwell
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AGENCY
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Harold Ober Associates, Inc.
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AAR MEMBER
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Yes
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EMAIL
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jake@haroldober.com
Does not accept email queries.
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AGENCY WEB SITE
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http://haroldober.com/
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FICTION GENRES
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Crime
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Mystery
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Commercial Fiction
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Historical Fiction
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Thrillers/Suspense
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Adventure
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Military/Espionage
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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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Politics
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Science
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Parenting
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How-To
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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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Adventure/True Story
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Pop Culture
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Narrative
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Psychology
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Military
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Film & Entertainment
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True Crime
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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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Most interested in narrative non fiction - history, biography, Americana, sports, adventure, pop science, pop culture, true crime, microhistory. Some interest in thriller, historical and mystery fiction.
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DOES NOT REPRESENT
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This agent does NOT represent SF/fantasy, new age, anything relating to 9/11
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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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http://haroldober.com/HOB-contacts.htm
- Query with proposal for non fiction, synopsis + opening 2-10 pp for fiction. Unless you are referred to us or are a published author, we normally prefer snailed queries
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FACTS/TIDBITS
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EDUCATION
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Phillips Exeter Academy, Lake Forest College
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NEW DEALS
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Non-Fiction
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Sports
ICE TIME and PARADISE ROAD author Jay Atkinson's MEMOIRS OF A RUGBY-PLAYING MAN, a narrative of the author's life as an amateur rugby player, spanning three decades and all corners of the globe, from Boston to Belfast to Bali and back, with broader discussion of the game and its history along the way, to Peter Wolverton at Thomas Dunne Books, for publication in 2011, by Jake Elwell at Harold Ober Associates (World English).
Non-Fiction
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Sports
Golf historian Jim Ducibella's KING OF CLUBS: The Great Golf Marathon of 1938, the story that captivated Depression-era America: J. Smith Ferebee's stupendous four-day, eight-city, 600-hole, cross-country golf marathon, to Sam Dorrance and Elizabeth Demers at Potomac Books, by Jake Elwell at Harold Ober Associates (World English)
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PAST/PRESENT CLIENTS
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Angels & Demons
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Dan Brown
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Thrillers/Suspense
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Atria; (July 1, 2003) |
When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to his first assignment at a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol, seared into the chest of a murdered physicist, he discovers evidence of the unimaginable: the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati--the most powerful underground organization ever to walk the earth
View book at Amazon
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Rockne: The Coach, the Man, the Legend
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Jerry Brondfield
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Sports
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Bison Books (September 1, 2009) |
On April 1, 1931, newspapers in all parts of the country announced in giant headlines that Knute Rockne had died in a plane crash in Kansas. Who was Rockne, age forty-three, to receive all this attention? As head coach of the Notre Dame football team, he was a celebrity whose face and voice were familiar to millions through magazines, newspapers, and radio. In Rockne Jerry Brondfield has recaptured the magnetism that made Rockne great. In this dramatic and peculiarly American story, he shows how a Norwegian immigrant could gain lasting fame as the coach of an American game at a university founded by Frenchmen and associated with the Irish.
View book at Amazon
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Leopards Kill
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Jim DeFelice
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Military/Espionage
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Forge Books; First Edition edition (November 3, 2009) |
A retelling of the Heart of Darkness archetype, set amid the fighting in Afghanistan
View book at Amazon
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The Burn Farm
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Michael Benson
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True Crime
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Pinnacle (September 1, 2009) |
True crime author and conspiracy theorist Benson (Betrayal in Blood) chronicles the real and disturbing life of Sheila LaBarre, who lured vulnerable men back to her remote New Hampshire farmhouse and abused them psychologically and physically; and after some of her victims disappeared, a police investigation uncovered the remains of two young men in burn pits on the farm.
View book at Amazon
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LINKS
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http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/WieserandWieser/
This is the agent's webpage on PublishersMarketplace
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