Original publisher Orbit Books did not want to publish a ninth book, and Millar's agent could not come to an agreement regarding rights of a future Thraxas title with Baen Books.
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Gibson credits his agent for the idea of a collection; according to the writer, the book was intended to bridge the gap between Zero History (2010), his most recent novel, and his next work of fiction.
Georges Borchardt is a well-respected literary agent in America; he has represented figures ranging from General Charles de Gaulle to Jane Fonda.
Shelden’s first book, George Orwell: Ten Animal Farm Letters to His Agent, Leonard Moore (1984), was an edited collection drawn from letters between Orwell and Moore that Shelden found at the Lilly Library and was the first to publicize.
In a letter to Lurton Blassingame, his literary agent, Heinlein complained that it would be like "revising Romeo and Juliet to let the young lovers live happily ever after."
In 2006, Scarletta launched a pilot project called The Queue, a professional service for authors, literary agents and publishers that provides consultation and opportunity for publication.
Scott Waxman is a literary agent, entrepreneur, and the founder of both the Waxman Leavell Literary Agency and Diversion Books.
After graduation she moved to Los Angeles, where she tried her hand at a multitude of writing businesses, including working as a literary agent, at a television casting company, editor of a magazine, and a script reader for a film producer.
He was survived by his wife, Roslyn, of Manhattan, a literary agent; a son, Russell, of Palo Alto, California; two grandchildren, one of whom was Elisabeth Targ, and four great-grandchildren.
His literary agent, Curtis Brown were reportedly very happy with the manuscript, and the book was published a year later in 1969.
Eleanor Friede was an American book editor and literary agent, best known for bringing the novella Jonathan Livingston Seagull to publication.
During much of her career she was represented by literary agent Barthold Fles.
She returned with her daughters to London late in 1947 and remained there until 1963, working as a literary agent, initially for Constable and Company, where authors she signed included Mary Durack, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Colin Johnson (aka Mudrooroo Narogin).
Michael Imison (born 1935), British television director and literary agent
He was also the literary agent for several writers, including Dalton Trumbo and Ring Lardner Jr., both of whom were blacklisted in the McCarthy era.
Silverberg worked as a literary agent at Donadio & Ashworth, as Editor-in-Chief at Grove/Atlantic Press, and as editorial and publishing director at Serpent's Tail's U.S. projects, High Risk Books and Midnight Classics.
The literary agent who picked up her first book, Feeling Sorry For Celia, was Australian author Garth Nix.
Just after the war, she was under the name Tonny Clerx, while being a literary agent for the French work of the Irish author and poet Samuel Beckett, but gave up this function in 1947 to focus on her own writing.
Knox Breckenridge Burger (November 1, 1922 – January 4, 2010) was an editor, writer, and literary agent who lived in New York City.
The publisher Sir Brian Batsford, the literary agent Graham Watson and the writers John Senior and Sarah Philo have also held the tenancy.
Literary agent and archivist Peter Straus has been credited with conceiving the idea of a Man Booker Prize for the missing year after wondering why Robertson Davies's 1970 novel Fifth Business had not been included in the Man Booker Prize shortlist.
After stints at Publishers Weekly and as a literary agent at William Morris, Hobson joined Scholastic, the global children's publishing and media company.
His first marriage was to Helen Weinberg Wilson which produced two daughters: Erica Silverman, a literary agent, and Victoria Wilson, editor and publisher at Alfred A. Knopf.
He was immensely proud of his three daughters: Dr Elizabeth Bryan, a distinguished Paediatrian, Felicity Bryan, a literary agent and writer, and Bernadette Hingley who was one of the first women priests in the Church of England.
He is currently a literary agent, having started The Ampersand Agency in 2003, notable for having discovered and represented Vikas Swarup, author of Q & A, which was recently filmed as Slumdog Millionaire, and also being the agent for the estate of prolific historical fiction writer Georgette Heyer.
Wilson's literary agent is Shawna McCarthy, and his most recent books (including Blind Lake, Spin, and Axis) have been edited by Teresa Nielsen Hayden of Tor Books.
In the early 1970s author and literary agent David Obst suggested to Marvel publisher Stan Lee and DC editorial director Carmine Infantino that there should be a feature film crossover featuring Marvel's Spider-Man and DC's Superman characters.
Wendy Keller (born in Chicago, IL) is a well regarded non-fiction literary agent who has worked with best selling authors such as Jeff Hayzlett, Jack Canfield, Char Margolis, Col. Randall J. Larsen, George Silverman and others.
A first cousin of the conductor Sir Georg Solti and a literary agent for and close friend of Winston Churchill, Emery Reves described his wife as "a woman with a brilliant mind and imagination, tempered by much common sense. She is a woman who never bored me".