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NAME
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Emily Forland
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AGENCY
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Brandt & Hochman Literary Agents
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AAR MEMBER
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Yes
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EMAIL
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eforland@bromasite.com
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AGENCY WEB SITE
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FICTION GENRES
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Literary Fiction
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Mystery
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Commercial Fiction
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Women's Fiction
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Historical Fiction
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Thrillers/Suspense
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Short Stories
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NONFICTION GENRES
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History
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Food & Lifestyle
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Science
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Memoirs
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Art
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Current Affairs
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Pop Culture
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Narrative
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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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She's looking for a distinct voice, and she wants to be gobsmacked on the first page (and those that follow!) by original, compelling, well-crafted sentences. She likes character-driven stories. Humor helps, though it isn’t a requirement.
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She also likes a psychological novel
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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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FACTS/TIDBITS
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Former assistant to Wendy Weil
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EDUCATION
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She has a B.A in English from the University of Chicago, an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College, and an MFA in graphic design from the School of Visual Arts in New York
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NEW DEALS
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PAST/PRESENT CLIENTS
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Stiltsville: A Novel
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Susanna Daniel
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Literary Fiction
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Harper (August 3, 2010) |
Iowa MFA and University of Wisconsin Fiction Fellow Susanna Daniel's STILTSVILLE, a portrait of the thirty-year marriage of a husband and wife, set in Miami, beginning on the day they meet in 1969 and weathering such storms as infidelity, illness, parenthood, and Hurricane Andrew
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The Local News: A Novel
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Miriam Gershow
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Literary Fiction
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Spiegel & Grau; Reprint edition (February 9, 2010) |
About a bookish teenage girl, who must confront her own conflicting emotions and the attention of her reeling community in the aftermath of the disappearance of her more popular older brother
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The Paperbark Shoe
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Goldie Goldbloom
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Historical Fiction
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Picador; First Edition edition (March 29, 2011) |
A story that begins with the arrival of two Italian prisoners-of-war on a farm in a cruelly backward Australian town during World War II, and follows the relationship between one prisoner and the farmer's wife
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