Total Submissions: 102
About Company:
A native New Yorker, Susanna Einstein got her bachelor’s degree in Performance Studies from Northwestern University, and after a brief detour into the theater world, began her editorial career at Warner Books in 1995. During her six years there, she edited crime fiction, historical fiction, contemporary fiction and non-fiction, and worked with authors like Charlotte Carter, James Ellroy, Karen Essex, Pete Hamill, Christian Jacq, Maureen Tan and David Foster Wallace.
In 2002, Susanna became a senior scout at Maria B. Campbell Associates, an international scouting agency. There, she read widely (fiction and non-fiction, commercial and literary, practical and narrative) on behalf of the company’s clients, which include major publishers from twelve countries and Warner Bros. Pictures. She also acted as the Director of Scouting for children’s and young adult books.
About LJK Literary Management
We are a full-service but highly personal literary agency whose philosophy is to limit our number of clients so that we can make the publishing experience for the author as pleasant (and rewarding) as possible.
We believe that a good agent must be involved in every aspect of publishing, from evaluating and pre-editing the manuscript in order to make it suitable for a publisher, to negotiating a clean and comprehensive contract with that publisher, to supporting the author all the way through the publication of the book itself. We have three agents (and support staff) whose talents blend to cover every aspect of the business, with special expertise in marketing and promotion and global licensing.
Our founder is Laurence J. Kirshbaum, who has more than 35 years of publishing experience, most recently as Chairman and CEO of the Time-Warner Book Group where he was named “Publishing’s Person of the Year” by Publishers Weekly in 2005. During his career as a publisher, he has helped build some of the greatest brand names in the business, including James Patterson, Michael Connelly, Nelson DeMille, David Baldacci, Nicholas Sparks, Robert Kiyosaki, Brad Meltzer, Sandra Brown and Sidney Sheldon. He will be concentrating on commercial fiction and non-fiction.