International bestseller SECRET DAUGHTER by Shilpi Somaya Gowda

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Ayesha Pande Literary is a full-service boutique agency with a small and exquisite client list. We manage every part of our clients' careers, from short story submissions to editorial consultation to brainstorming with publishers about marketing and publicity, to selling foreign and other subsidiary rights through our extensive network of agents. We have introduced many new voices to readers and are always on the look-out for those writers who bravely grapple with difficult themes, who take risks, who seek to innovate.

I am a former editor with twenty years of experience in publishing. Before becoming an agent, I was a senior editor at Farrar Straus and Giroux. I have also held editorial positions at HarperCollins and Crown Publishers, a division of Random House. I am looking for clients whose projects match my eclectic interests, from literary to popular fiction, including women's, African-American and international fiction. I also represent nonfiction, including memoir, biography, history, popular culture, cultural commentary, science, and some how-to.

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Evening is the Whole Day by Preeta Samarasan (Houghton Mifflin 2008)
Breathing Space by Katrina Repka and Alan Finger (Hyperion 2009)
A Taste For Heaven by Ariel Glucklich (Harper San Francisco 2010)
Skunk Girl by Sheba Karim (FSG Books for Young Readers, 2009)
Rock Bottom by Michael Shilling (Little Brown 2009)
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self by Danielle Evans (Riverhead 2010)
Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway (Bloomsbury Press 2010)
Finny by Justin Kramon (Random House 2010)
Magic City: Trials of a Native Son by Trick Daddy and Peter Bailey (MTV Books 2010)
A League of Saints and Sinners: Stories from the Shadows of the Global Drug Trade by Asale Angel-Ajani (Seal Press, 2010)
Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda (William Morrow, 2010)
The Secret Life of Baba Segi's Wives by Lola Shoneyin (William Morrow, 2010)
The Frugalista Files by Natalie McNeal (Harlequin Nonfiction, 2010)
Vida by Patricia Engel (Grove Atlantic, 2010)
Pot of Gold: A Marijuana Virgin's Adventures in the Land of the Magical Weed (Union Square Press, 2012)
Nann: A Hip Hop Story by Trick Daddy and Peter Bailey (Dabel Brothers 2011)
I, Latina:My of Year Tripping Through my Ancestral DNA, Running The Fuku Down, and Making Peace with my Dad along the Way by Raquel Cepeda (Atria 2013)
Haldol and Hyacinths: A Bipolar Life by Melody Moezzi (Gotham Books, 2013)
Black City (!st in the Black City Chronicles trilogy) by Elizabeth Richards (Putnam BFYR, 2012)
Amato Bene by Vivien Shotwell (Ballantine, 2013)
Still Dreaming by Congressman Luis Gutierrez with Doug Scofield (Norton, 2013)

Evening is the Whole Day by Preeta Samarasan to Einaudi/Italy; Aschehoug/Norway; Fourth Estate/UK; HarperCollins/Australia; HarperCollins/India; Gyldendal/Denmark; Kinneret/Israel; Suma de las Letras/Spain; Ullstein/Germany; Arena/Holland; Rocco/Brazil; Edicions 62/Catalan; Actes Sud/France.

Skunk Girl by Sheba Karim to Rizzoli/Italy; Tilden/Sweden; Carlsen/Denmark; Penguin/India

Finny by Justin Kramon to Ediciones Destino/Spain.

Film rights for Rock Bottom by Michael Shilling to Clift Street Productions.

Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda to Karakter/Netherlands; Gallimard/France; Cicero/Denmark; Simanim/Israel; Corbaccio/Italy; Record/Brazil; Pegasus/Turkey; IP Jovan/Serbia, Proszynski Media/Poland; Profil Multimedija/Croatia; Forum/Sweden; Alma Littera/Lithuania; Beijing Booky Company/simple Chinese; Han Shian Culture Publishing/complex Chinese; Juritzen Forlag/Norway; Kiepenheuer & Witsch/Germany; Prah/Czech Republic; Planeta/Spain.

Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway to The Soup/South Korea; France; China.

The Frugalista Files: How One Woman Got Out of Debt Without Giving Up the Fabulous Life by Natalie McNeal to Nemo Garden/Korea.

I provide extensive editorial consultation as well as broader career planning. I have in-depth knowledge of the publishing industry. I am familiar with many aspects of social media and online marketing and consult with my clients on their marketing efforts.

Member of Association of Authors' Representatives (AAR), PEN, Asian American Writer's Workshop, German Book Office Advisory Board.

Bulgaria and Macedonia:
Anthea Agency

Czech Republic:
Marcin Biegaj, Graal Literary Agency

France:
Anna Jarota, AJA

Germany:
Liepman AG

Hungary:
Balla & Co. Literary Agents

Israel:
The Harris/Elon Agency

Italy:
Marco Vigevani Agenzia Letteraria

Japan:
The English Agency Ltd.

Korea:
Duran Kim Agency

Netherlands:
Sebes & Van Gelderen Agency

Poland:
Graal Ltd.

Scandinavia:
Sane Toregard Agency AB

Spain/Portugal/South America:
MB agencia literaria

Taiwan:
Andrew Nurnberg Associates International Ltd

Turkey:
Anatolialit Agency

UK
Isobel Dixon, Blake Friedmann

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