Monday, February 02, 2009

Post Super Bowl Chatter

In offices across the land, people are gathering around the coffee maker or the water cooler and chatting. There's comments and observations being made about the game, questions asked about the lack of brilliant commercials this time around.

Over in the corner, a conversation takes a turn. "Where's Diane Bartoli gone to then," one of the would-be novelists says. Joe Veltre has re-made his agency.

The old Artists Literary Group is now The Veltre Company. It's only Mr. Veltre there now, doing the agenting and the managing and the consulting.

Ellen Pepus, on the other hand, is content with the traditional agent role. She's taken her eponymous agency and expanded by one, resulting in a new name. Having snatched Gary Heidt from FinePrint Literary Management, she's gone from Ellen Pepus to Signature Literary Agency.

Two relatively new agencies in search of talent, and they both like submissions via e-mail.

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