#PublishingReinvented 372 - Video Interview w/Leading US Literary Agent & Speaker at IDWF in August + Tell us Why You Want a Free Ads Program To Win One
Mark is a literary agent and executive vice president at Trident Media Group in New York City. I will be meeting him next Monday when I am in New York to speak at an event. Mark is also coming to speak at our Writers Festival in Dublin in August.
His agency has historically led the industry in the number of book deals and the total value of those deals. He represents authors across various genres, including fiction, non-fiction, children’s books, and graphic novels, and has achieved approximately 360 book deals to date.He has previous experience in the audiobook department and with Penguin Books, and he has lectured on publishing at institutions such as Yale, Cambridge, and Columbia.
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Mr. Gobscheit also just won a Literary Titan Gold Award and promotion of the book would mean a lot. Plus BooksGoSocial was involved with its creation.
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