Jennifer DeChiara is president and owner of the Jennifer DeChiara Literary Agency, which she founded in 2001. Before forming the agency, she was a literary agent with two established New York agencies, worked in the editorial departments of Simon & Schuster and Random House, and was a writing consultant for several major corporations. A New York City-based writer, she is a frequent guest judge for the WRITER’S DIGEST, WOW! WOMEN ON WRITING, and THAT FIRST LINE writing contests, among others, and is a frequent guest lecturer on publishing and the art of writing at universities and writers conferences throughout the country, which have included New York University’s Summer Publishing Institute, the Penticton, Canada Writers Conference, the San Diego State University Writers Conference, Backspace, the International Women’s Writing Guild, and the Learning Annex. She represents both children’s and adult books, fiction and non-fiction, in a wide range of genres and represents many best-selling, award-winning authors, including Lambda Award-winning YA novelist Brent Hartinger, best-selling children’s book authors Chanda Bell and Carol Aebersold, and #1 New York Times best-selling author Sylvia Browne.
Stephen Fraser joined the Jennifer DeChiara Literary Agency as an agent in January 2005. He worked most recently at HarperCollins Children’s Books, where he edited such creative talents as Mary Engelbreit, Gregory Maguire, Michael Hague, Ann Rinaldi, Kathryn Lasky, Brent Hartinger, Stephen Mitchell, and Dan Gutman. He began his career at Highlights for Children and later worked at Scholastic and Simon & Schuster. A graduate of Middlebury College in Vermont, he has a Master’s degree in Children’s Literature from Simmons College in Boston. He represents both children’s and adult books in a wide range of genres.
Foreign Sales Director. More to come.
Arlynn Greenbaum
Director of Speakers Services. More to come.
Diane DiResta
Director of Presentation Services. More to come.
Stacy Mozer
Workshop Coordinator. Stacy Barnett Mozer has a Masters in Elementary Education from New York University and spends her days teaching elementary school. A middle-grade writer, she founded the SCBWI of Lower Fairfield and is a member of SCBWI and Verla Kay’s Blue Boards. Stacy lives with her husband and two children in Stamford, Connecticut. http://www.lowerfairfieldwriters.blogspot.com
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International Rights
Our Foreign Sales Director, Betty Anne Crawford, represents our international rights, and we maintain a strong presence at Book Expo and book fairs throughout the world. The following is a list of our foreign co-agents.
United Kingdom – David Grossman
Germany – Ingo Stein at Interpill Media
Spain – Sandra Rodericks at Ute Korner
Italy – Elfriede Pexa at Living Lit Agency
Turkey – Akcali Copyright
Hungary – Peter Bolza at Katai & Bolza
Bulgaria – Kalina Stefanova at ELST
Romania – Simona Kessler Agency
Rest of Eastern Europe and Greece, except Poland – Prava I Prevodi
Poland - direct
Russia – Nova Littera
China – Big Apple Tuttle Mori
Japan – Tuttle Mori
Indonesia – Tuttle Mori
Scandinavia – Philip Sane at Lennart Sane Agency
Holland – (children’s books to come); otherwise, direct, except for romances, which are Sane
France – Eliane Benisti
Korea – books on spirituality – Hosung Maeng at KCBS
all other books – Henry Shin at Eric Yang Agency
Israel - direct
