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Kate Quinn's MISTRESS OF ROME, coming in April 2010.
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Terra Little's WHERE THERE'S SMOKE 2, coming in February 2010.
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Pam Strickler
P. O. Box 505, New Paltz, NY 12561
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Jane Myers Perrine's SECOND CHANCE BRIDE

Pamela Dean Strickler was senior editor for sixteen years at Ballantine Books and is now working as an authors' representative with her own company. She brings a passion for books and an inside understanding of the publishing business to the service of her clients.


years experience: 30 years plus in publishing.
GENRES & SPECIALTIES
Historical Fiction, Women's fiction, Romance.....Do NOT handle Nonfiction, Picture Books, Or Screenplays
BEST-KNOWN PROJECTS
As an agent, Pam has represented first novels such as Kate Quinn's historical saga, MISTRESS OF ROME (April '10) and Dorothea Benton Frank's SULLIVAN'S ISLAND (with SCG).

MOST RECENT SALES/ FORTHCOMING BOOKS
Charlotte Carter's first Steeple Hill novel, A COWBOY'S HEART, also Book #4 for the Hope Haven hospital series, Guideposts

Nicola Cornick's WHISPER OF SCANDAL and five new novels, HQN

Marie Donovan's HER LAST LINE OF DEFENSE (September '09) and KNOWING THE SCORE, Blaze

Terra Little's WHERE THERE'S SMOKE 2 (February '10) and JUMP (2011), Urban Books

Kate Quinn's MISTRESS OF ROME (April 2010), THE YEAR OF THE FOUR EMPERORS (2011), and the third novel in her trilogy of ancient Rome, Berkley

Kimberly Van Meter's first Silhouette Romantic Suspense, TO CATCH A KILLER and a second novel, also a new trilogy about the three foster sons of "Mama Jo" for SuperRomance

MOST RECENT RIGHTS SALES
By Betty Anne Crawford at Books Crossing Borders:

Kate Quinn's MISTRESS OF ROME to Headline (U.K.), Ullstein (Germany), Ciela (Bulgaria)

SPECIALIZED TRAINING, WORK EXPERIENCE, HONORS
Pam Strickler is a member of the Association of Authors' Representatives (AAR). She started her agency in 2001 and previously was associated as an independent agent with the Scovil Chichak Galen Agency of New York. She also worked 1995-99 as an independent manuscript editor.

Pam is concentrating the work of her agency on historical fiction, women's fiction and romance. While on staff at Ballantine, she served as editor to such women's fiction authors as Fern Michaels and Jennifer Wilde. In historical fiction, two of Pam's bestselling Ballantine authors won the prestigious Western Writers of America Spur award for their frontier epics: Lucia St. Clair Robson and James Alexander Thom. Prior to Ballantine, Pam worked five years at Avon Books.

KEY PERSONNEL
Pam Strickler lives and works 90 miles north of Manhattan in the beautiful Hudson Valley/Catskills region of New York State.
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Please, no unsolicited manuscripts.
PREFER EMAIL queries, including a one page letter with a brief description of your plot, plus the first ten pages of your novel ALL PASTED IN to the body of the email. Sorry, unknown attachments will not be opened.

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