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NAME
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Diana Finch
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AGENCY
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Diana Finch Literary Agency
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AAR MEMBER
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Yes
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EMAIL
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diana.finch@verizon.net
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AGENCY WEB SITE
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FICTION GENRES
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Literary Fiction
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Women's Fiction
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Young Adult
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Multi-Cultural
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Military/Espionage
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Graphic Novels
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NONFICTION GENRES
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Religion
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Politics
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Medical
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Science
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Parenting
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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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Psychology
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Health & Fitness
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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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Very interested in women's studies
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DOES NOT REPRESENT
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This agent is not a fan of vernacular first-person narration within fiction
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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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This agent is seeking new clients on a selective basis
- Email: query (no attachments)
- Snail Mail: query with SASE
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FACTS/TIDBITS
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EDUCATION
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NEW DEALS
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Non-Fiction
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Business
Michael Maslansky, Scott West, Gary DeMoss and David Saylor's THE LANGUAGE OF TRUST: Selling Ideas in a World of Skeptics, how to communicate with a skeptical public, based on Van Kampen Investments' New Word Order program and Maslansky, Luntz & Partners consumer research, to John Duff and Maria Gagliano at Prentice Hall Press, for publication in May 2010, by Diana Finch at Diana Finch Literary Agency (world).
Non-Fiction
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Business
Loretta Napoleoni's MAONOMICS, a provocative look at capitalism in a globalized economy, and why Chinese communism is faring better than Western democracy, by the author of ROGUE ECONOMICS, to Dan Simon at Seven Stories, for publication in Fall 2011, by Diana Finch at Diana Finch Literary Agency.
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PAST/PRESENT CLIENTS
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Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America and American in Iran
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Azadeh Moaveni
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Multi-Cultural
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Memoirs
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Journalism
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PublicAffairs (March 1, 2005) |
A young Iranian-American journalist returns to Tehran and discovers not only the oppressive and decadent life of her Iranian counterparts who have grown up since the revolution, but the pain of searching for a homeland that may not exist
View book at Amazon
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Heidegger's Glasses: A Novel
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Thaisa Frank
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Historical Fiction
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Counterpoint (November 1, 2010) |
In her debut novel, Frank (A Brief History of Camouflage) presents a slightly fantastic tale of WWII, concerning an underground German bunker where multi-lingual intellectuals, spared the concentration camps, spend the war answering letters sent to concentration camp inmates who are, in all likelihood, already dead; called the Compound of Scribes, its mission is part record-keeping, part supernatural insurance plan, meant to keep the spirits of the dead from tipping off psychics to the Nazi's Final Solution.
View book at Amazon
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Genetic Rounds: A Doctor's Encounters in the Field that Revolutionized Medicine
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Robert Marion
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Medical
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Kaplan Publishing; 1 edition (October 5, 2010) |
Stories that explore patients' encounters with the power of modern genetic medicine
View book at Amazon
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LINKS
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http://www.wordsmitten.com/2003agents.htm
Interview with Diana Finch on WordSmitten.com regarding foreign rights
This is Diana Finch's response to our symposium question, Pitching Editors
http://www.agentquery.com/symposium_pitcheditors.aspx
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