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NAME
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Jeff Kleinman
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AGENCY
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Folio Literary Management
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AAR MEMBER
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Yes
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EMAIL
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jkleinman at foliolit (dot) com
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AGENCY WEB SITE
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http://www.foliolit.com/
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FICTION GENRES
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Literary Fiction
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Commercial Fiction
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Historical Fiction
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Thrillers/Suspense
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Short Stories
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Military/Espionage
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NONFICTION GENRES
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History
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Celebrity
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Biography
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Politics
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Parenting
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How-To
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Multi-Cultural
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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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Business
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Pop Culture
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Narrative
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Psychology
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Health & Fitness
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Nature/Ecology
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Pets
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Military
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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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Nonfiction (especially narrative nonfiction with a historical bent, but also health, parenting, aging, nature, pets, how-to, travel, nature, ecology, politics, military, espionage, equestrian, memoir, biography)
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Fiction (very well-written, character driven novels; suspense, thrillers; otherwise mainstream commercial and literary fiction)
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DOES NOT REPRESENT
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Does not children’s, YA, romance, mysteries, westerns, poetry, or screenplays, novels about serial killers, suicide, or children in peril (kidnapped, killed, raped, etc.)
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He avoid subjects like rape, suicide, and manic-depression; and thrillers in which there's some terrorist organization bent on destroying America or the world
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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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http://foliolit.com/jeff-kleinman/
- He prefers email queries - he responds to them faster
- Please do not "multiple" query agents in this agency
- Email: query with first 5 pages pasted in the body of the email and QUERY in the subject line
- Snail Mail: query with SASE
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FACTS/TIDBITS
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EDUCATION
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Graduate of University of Virginia (BA), University of Chicago (MA), and Case Western Reserve School of Law (JD)
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NEW DEALS
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PAST/PRESENT CLIENTS
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Finn: A Novel
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Jon Clinch
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Literary Fiction
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Random House (February 20, 2007) |
The dark tale of Huck Finn's father
View book at Amazon
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Unsaid: A Novel
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Neil Abramson
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Commercial Fiction
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Center Street (August 4, 2011) |
Narrated by a dead veterinarian terrified of going "beyond" for fear of meeting the souls of the animals she's euthanized in her career, who observes as her grieving husband takes on a legal case to save a chimpanzee, but ultimately changes far more than a single life
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Instant Influence: How to Get Anyone to Do Anything--Fast
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Michael Pantalon
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Cultural/Social Issues
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Little, Brown and Company (May 9, 2011) |
If you want to motivate your employees to be more productive, convince your customers to use more of your products and services, encourage a loved one to engage in healthier habits, or inspire any change in yourself, renowned psychologist Dr. Michael Pantalon can show you how to achieve Instant Influence in six simple steps.
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Every Day by the Sun: A Memoir of the Faulkners of Mississippi
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Dean Faulkner Wells
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Biography
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Crown (March 22, 2011) |
A Memoir of the Faulkners of Mississippi, in which William Faulkner's niece tells the story of growing up as the famous author's surrogate daughter, providing insights into both William and the Faulkner family which have never been published
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Boiling Point
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Karen Dionne
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Thrillers/Suspense
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Jove; Original edition (December 28, 2010) |
Chaiten, a long-dormant volcano in Chile, fuses the destinies of two microbiologists, a celebrity scientist, and a Nobel Prize-winning scientist who waits for the one sign that his diabolical plan is about to be put into motion. For the Earth has become a pawn in the biggest gamble ever played with humanity's future-and Chaiten is about to blow.
View book at Amazon
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LINKS
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http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/jkleinman/
This is his webpage on PublishersMarketplace
Interviews:
http://www.slushpile.net/index.php/2005/10/05/interview-jeff-kleinman-agent/
http://freewebs.com/lilylitreview/1_3interview.html
http://www.webdelsol.com/Algonkian/Classes/interview-JeffKleinman.htm
http://www.guidetoliteraryagents.com/blog/CommentView,guid,48b041cf-1840-4f1b-b81e-c838c60bf589.aspx
http://www.fictionfactor.com/interviews/kleinman.html
This is Jeff Kleinman's response to our symposium question, When Agents Call...
http://www.agentquery.com/symposium_thecall.aspx
http://allagents.bksp.org/jeffguide.htm
This is an article from Jeff Kleinman about how to get the most out of writer's conferences
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