LITERARY AGENT

Sarah Burnes, the Gernert Company
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LECTURES/READINGS/APPEARANCES

Writers need to be paid for their work. So if this statement aligns with a budget, I would love to visit your high school, university, book club, literary festival, radio show, podcast, conference, museum, corporate boardroom, book store, marketing agency, library, creative writing program or class to teach, talk, or read about issues orbiting around the working class, ecological economics, creative writing, environmental stories, toxicities, politics, sociology of small towns, literary criticism, fashion and politics, book criticism, archives and access, photography and writing, or Maine. Consider too, in your offer, my time, words I have to write, mental administration,, and how much you think that’s worth to yourself.

For speaking engagements, please contact Christie Hinrichs at christie@authorsunbound.com or submit your event request to Christie via this FORM at AUTHORS UNBOUND and they will help you out! If you need to reach out to me for another reason, you can contact me HERE.

FILM and TV AGENT

Brooke Ehrlich, Creative Artists Agency
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TRANSLATION RIGHTS

Rebecca Gardner, the Gernert Company
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PUBLISHER CONTACT

Michael Fynan, manager of academic book marketing, coordinates academic conferences and academic book sales, St. Martin’s Press. Can also help w/desk copies
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Dominique Jenkins - for author event book sales, St. Martin’s Press
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BOOK CRITICISM

Dear publicists and authors, if you think your book or galley is something I would consider reviewing or reading, please send a copy to me at the below address. I like literary nonfiction and fiction that bridges the gap between scholarship and storytelling or literary fiction. More specifically, most books I am excited about contain critical information about the environment, but delivered using the tenets of literary storytelling. I also define the environment broadly, meaning: I am not just interested in texts about "nature" or texts considering preservation or conservation as central to the story. Nor am I interested in single environmental subjects, like say, icebergs or bears. While the books I love may contain such ideas or topics, they are not central to the narratives necessarily. Relationships are. I also feel similarly about books that contain narratives about environmental disasters, politics or activism, science, investigative or historical narratives -- meaning, such agendas can be in the books, but they must contain more than one note, more than a raised fist, more than a straight timeline, more than a smoking gun at the end, and more than an avalanche of facts. And they must be literary in scope and execution.

In other words, I love good stories that have environmental themes, but that are complex, not divisive, and ask more questions than the answers they provide.

Books and other things I have written about are HERE.
PO Box 96, Roxbury CT 06783

FIND ME AT

The Environmental Storytelling Studio (TESS)
Authors Outside
Harvard University
Science History Institute
Orion magazine
Threads
Bluesky
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