NEWS: DeFiore and Co. Announces Major Company Expansion (3/2010)
Brian DeFiore of DeFiore and Company announced today a major expansion of his agency with the addition of four new agents, Debra Goldstein, Laura Nolan, Matthew Elblonk and Karen Gerwin. The four, formerly of the agency The Creative Culture, which was founded in 1998 by Ms. Goldstein and Mary Ann Naples (who recently joined the start-up e-commerce site OpenSky) will join current DeFiore and Co. agents Laurie Abkemeier, Kate Garrick, Adam Korn and Adam Schear on March 1st. With nine agents and additional support staff, DeFiore and Co. is now a solidly mid-size agency with a broad list of non-fiction and fiction authors for adults and young adults. Clients that they bring to the agency include Lauren Conrad (LA CANDY) , Danica McKellar (MATH DOESN'T SUCK), SARK (SUCCULENT WILD WOMAN), Stacy Morrison, Lou Paget, MJ Ryan, Frances Cole Jones, Dr. Neal Barnard, and Gesine Bullock-Prado. Info about the new agents and their authors will be incorporated into this website very soon. Please visit again!

Brian DeFiore started DeFiore and Company in 1999, after close to twenty years as an editor and an executive at several major publishing houses, including Random House, Hyperion, Dell Publishing and St. Martin's Press.

Kate Garrick, an agent and Foreign Rights Director at the agency, joined in 2002.

Laurie Abkemeier, a former editor and colleague of Brian DeFiore's from Hyperion, joined the agency in 2003.

The company has sold well over 100 book projects to publishers large and small. In the last few years, the company has had nine New York Times bestsellers and dozens of additional titles on regional and chain store bestseller lists around the country. Our books have been published in dozens of languages around the world, and several have been sold as major motion picture and television properties.

On our site, you'll learn more about the agency: who we are, the clients we currently represent, what sorts of projects we're looking for, and how to contact us. If you're a writer new to the business of publishing, please check out our submissions guidelines and resources pages.

Thank you for checking us out, and please return regularly for updates on our clients and their work.

Brian DeFiore and the staff

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