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NAME
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Karen Gerwin
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AGENCY
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DeFiore and Company
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AAR MEMBER
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Yes
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EMAIL
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kgerwin@defioreandco.com
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AGENCY WEB SITE
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http://www.defioreandco.com/
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FICTION GENRES
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Literary Fiction
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Commercial Fiction
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NONFICTION GENRES
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Food & Lifestyle
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Parenting
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Memoirs
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Women's Issues
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Pop Culture
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Narrative
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Gay & Lesbian
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Humor
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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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Karen loves anything having to do with pop culture, lifestyle, parenting, humor, memoir/narrative nonfiction, and women's interests.
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She is also looking for fiction that is well-written, has interesting characters, and tells an engaging story.
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She has represented a number of blogger-to-book deals
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DOES NOT REPRESENT
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She is NOT interested in genre fiction (i.e. sci-fi/fantasy, romance, mystery, thriller).
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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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FACTS/TIDBITS
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She former worked as an editorial assistant at Hyperion before leaping into agenting at ICM, William Morris, and The Creative Culture before DeFiore
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EDUCATION
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NEW DEALS
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PAST/PRESENT CLIENTS
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Amy's Answering Machine: Messages from Mom
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Amy Borkowsky
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Pop Culture
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Atria; (April 3, 2001) |
Based on the hit CD of the same name, Borkowsky shares more than a decade's worth of maddening phone messages from her hilariously overprotective mom
View book at Amazon
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Let's Panic About Babies!: How to Endure and Possibly Triumph Over the Adorable Tyrant who Will Ruin Your Body, Destroy Your Life, Liquefy Your Brain, ... Turn You into a Worthwhile Human Being
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Alice Bradley and Eden Kennedy
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Parenting
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Humor
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St. Martin's Griffin (March 1, 2011) |
A spoof on traditional panic-ridden parenting guides, which began as the authors' website
View book at Amazon
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Rules for My Unborn Son
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Walker Lamond
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St. Martin's Press; 1 edition (October 27, 2009) |
A collection of fatherly advice for boys, which began as the author's blog, a way to preserve and share the lessons his late father had taught him growing up
View book at Amazon
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Falling Apart in One Piece: One Optimist's Journey Through the Hell of Divorce
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Stacy Morrison
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Memoirs
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Simon & Schuster; 1 edition (March 23, 2010) |
An inspirational divorce memoir from Redbook Editor-in-Chief, Stacy Morrison
View book at Amazon
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