ABOUT US

Jodie Rhodes, President

A published novelist (Bantam and Putnam), her second book made the LA Times bestseller list its first week in print. For many years she was an advertising executive, serving as VP Media Director of N.Y. Ayer Advertising Agency. She has taught creative writing on the university level, been a book editor, written columns for regional and national writers’ magazines (Writer’s Monthly, Writer’s Journal) which included numerous interviews with major New York editors, and is frequently featured in Writer’s Digest Magazine. For many years she gave seminars at The Learning Annex and conducted workshops and clinics for local area writers before the rapid growth of her agency forced her to concentrate totally on that.

She was interviewed and profiled in the July 2002 issues of Writers Market and Writers Digest. The 2003 edition of Guide To Literary Agents featured an article by her and an interview with both her and her author Ann Pearlman.

Finding Your Voice by Leslie Edgerton, a Main Selection of the Writers Digest Book Club that came out spring 2003 includes her essay on what “voice” means in a book and Hooked: How To Grab Readers On Page One (also a Main Selection of the Writers Digest Book Club by Leslie Edgerton published in 2007) features her advice to new writers in several essays.

Writers Digest has named her as one of the top 25 literary agents in the country who accepts new writers.

Clark McCutcheon, fiction agent at large

Editor for many years at George Braziller in New York, then founded his own publishing company on Long Island, brought out poetry and literary fiction, was affiliated with Billings &Sons Ltd and Guilford in London.

Bob McCarter, nonfiction agent at large

Worked for many years at Universal Studios in Hollywood and did a number of television documentaries.

Jill Hughes: Rights agent for Europe and South America

Svetlana Pironko: Rights agent for Russia

The English Agency: Rights agency for Japan

KCC Agency: Rights agency for Korea

UK/Commonwealth: (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, India) is handled personally by Jodie Rhodes

History of Agency:

Founded in l998, acquired first writer in late summer of that year and has experienced exponential growth. Represents 70 authors.

Professional Organizations: AAR

Listing Sources:

Literary Market Place

Guide To Literary Agents

Writers Market

Novel and Short Story

Jeff Herman’s Guide To Book Publishers, Editors and Literary Agents

The Writer

Hollywood Directory

Writers’ Yearbook

HOLLYWOOD CONTACTS:

CAA, VIACOM/PARAMOUNT PICTURES; TRI-STAR COLUMBIA; SONY; WARNER BROS; MIRAMAX; UNIVERSAL; LION’S GATE; ALLIANCE ATLANTIS; HARPO FILMS (Oprah’s production company); DAVIS ENTERTAINMENT/FOX STUDIOS; WEINSTEIN STUDIOS; BRAD PITT AND JENIFER ANISTON’S PLAN B, MICHAEL OVITZ’S ARTISTS PRODUCTION GROUP, BEACON PICTURES, SLATE FILMS, BALTIMORE SPRING CREEK PICTURES, CRAIG ANDERSON PRODUCTIONS, STONE VILLAGE PRODUCTIONS, CHERRYWOOD FILMS, UNISTUDIOS.