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NAME
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Bob Mecoy
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AGENCY
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Bob Mecoy Literary Agency
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AAR MEMBER
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EMAIL
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bob.mecoy@gmail.com
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AGENCY WEB SITE
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http://www.bobmecoy.com/
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FICTION GENRES
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Mystery
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Commercial Fiction
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Thrillers/Suspense
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Military/Espionage
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Graphic Novels
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NONFICTION GENRES
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Sports
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Politics
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Medical
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Science
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Memoirs
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Current Affairs
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Business
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Narrative
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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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He's looking to expand his representation of graphic novels, sports, and science
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He really likes popular science written as a narrative
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DOES NOT REPRESENT
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Not interested in seeing romance, children’s or young adult books, screenplays or poetry
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No longer represents fantasy or science fiction
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He does NOT represent romance, chick lit, history, cookbook books
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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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Snail Mail: query with SASE
- Email: query only (no attachments)
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FACTS/TIDBITS
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Former editor at Crown Books, Simon & Schuster, Morrow/Avon, NAL and Dell/Delacorte
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This agent has changed the name of his agency from Creative Book Services to Bob Mecoy Literary Agency
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EDUCATION
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NEW DEALS
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PAST/PRESENT CLIENTS
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Bodies in Motion: Stories
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Mary Anne Mohanraj
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Literary Fiction
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Short Stories
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HarperCollins (July 1, 2005) |
A collection of linked short stories, tracing the emotional, sexual, geographic and relational history of two Sri Lankan families through the last half century
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Committed: Confessions of a Fantasy Football Junkie
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Mark St. Amant
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Sports
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Memoirs
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Scribner (September 4, 2004) |
Utterly fed up with never having won his league championship, sports humorist Amant abandons his advertising career and makes fantasy football his new full-time job, setting out on a sprawling reconnaissance mission to discover what really makes this game--and its players--tick
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The Placebo Chronicles: Strange But True Tales From the Doctors' Lounge
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Doug Farrago
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Medical
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Memoirs
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Humor
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Broadway (April 12, 2005) |
In the same irreverent style as his popular satirical magazine, "Placebo Journal"--affectionately known by its thousands of fanatic readers as “Mad magazine for doctors”--Dr. Farrago has compiled the best of the most outrageous and uproarious true stories to come out of the ERs and examination rooms of doctors all over the country
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The Blog of War: Front-Line Dispatches from Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan
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Matthew Currier Burden
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Military
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Simon & Schuster (September 5, 2006) |
Burden, a veteran who has served with Special Operations and intelligence units, provides a glimpse into a new form of war literature, the military blog
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Event: A Novel
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David Lynn Golemon
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Thrillers/Suspense
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Military/Espionage
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Thomas Dunne Books (August 22, 2006) |
The Event Group, a covert organization that has secretly served every U.S. president since Lincoln, must now combine forces with the powerful might of the U.S. military and prepare themselves for an epic battle against the most dangerous threat against human existence that history has ever seen
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Hamlet: The Manga
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Tintin Pantoja
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Graphic Novels
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Wiley; 2007 |
The first in a four-book series of Shakespeare's plays as graphic novels
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