Mail In 2007, Straub's personal papers were acquired by the Fales Library at New York University. Here’s a partial list: Joe Hill, J. K. Rowling, Neil Gaiman, Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen King, Danielle Steel, Peter Straub. I like to think my authors do the same.
The salesman wanted him to become an athlete, the nurse thought he would do well as either a doctor or a Lutheran minister, but all he wanted to do was to learn to read.
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He comes to in … Social. Concerned about his financial success after the cool reception of his first mainstream novel, Peter Straub sought the advice of his agent. He has consistently displayed a refreshing willingness to venture beyond the laboured prose and hackneyed situations found in so many … Richard Thomas (wickerkat on QT) has signed with agent Paula Munier of Talcott Notch Literary Services. JABberwocky Literary Agency. But I knew I had to get an agent … Since 1983, Robin Straus Agency, a full-service literary agency based in New York, has represented a select list of distinguished authors of both fiction and nonfiction. ... including "Stillness" in Shivers VI with Stephen King and Peter Straub.
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Tom Miller joined Liza Dawson Associates as a senior literary agent in the summer of 2018 after three years as an agent with the Carol Mann Agency. Secret service agent Ethan Burke arrives in Wayward Pines, Idaho, with a clear mission: locate and recover two federal agents who went missing in the bucolic town one month earlier. His horror fiction has received numerous literary honors such as the Bram Stoker Award, World Fantasy Award, and International Horror Guild Award, placing him among the most-honored horror authors in recent history. Julia was later adapted into the 1977 film The Haunting of Julia (occasionally referred to as Full Circle) starring Mia Farrow. Though never quite managing to penetrate the public consciousness to the extent that his contemporary Stephen King has, Peter Straub can still be considered one of the most commercially (and critically) successful genre writers of the past thirty years. Navigate; Linked Data; Dashboard; Tools / Extras; Stats; Share . Mark now helps authors of all genres (fiction, nonfiction, and children's books) get top literary agents, publishers, and book deals through his company Literary Agent Undercover and The Bestselling Author.Mark's authors have gotten six-figure book deals, been on the NYT bestseller list, and published with houses such as … Concerned about his financial success after the cool reception of his first mainstream novel, Peter Straub sought the advice of his agent. David Pathé-Camus is a French writer and translator specialized in genre fiction, who's also worked as a literary agent, editor and documentary filmmaker. Peter Francis Straub (born March 2, 1943) is an American author and poet, most famous for his work in the horror genre. Peter Straub was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on 2 March, 1943, the first of three sons of a salesman and a nurse. By the end of the nineteenth century, writers interested in exploring supernatural themes had abandoned the mode of gothic fiction pioneered by eighteenth century English novelist Horace Walpole.
"You're poor, you're unhappy, write a Gothic," she said. Those books really informed my taste as a reader of genre fiction and what impresses me with those authors is their sheer versatility and willingness to take risks.
He lives in Brooklyn. The work is Straub's first novel to deal with the supernatural and was published through Coward, McCann & Geoghegan.
Tom Miller joined Liza Dawson Associates as a senior literary agent in the summer of 2018 after three years as an agent with the Carol Mann Agency. NEW YORK Elaine Koster, a publisher and literary agent with a knack for new talent who gave a second chance to an obscure horror writer named Stephen King … Prior to becoming an agent, Tom held executive and senior editorial positions with Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, Wiley, and McGraw-Hill. He has consistently displayed a refreshing willingness to venture beyond the laboured prose and hackneyed situations found in so many … Straub also sits on the contributing editorial board of the literary journal Conjunctions, and he guest-edited Conjunctions: 39, an issue on New Wave Fabulism. After having done it myself, I know a bit about why a … Julia is a 1975 novel by American writer Peter Straub.