PITCH FEST IS FOR YOU
There are still spots available for current Mills MFAs as well as alumni to meet with real, live professional literary agents during the last two panel sessions at this Saturday’s Pitch Fest! Agent meetings will be set up in advance, so email Kristina (kmiltenberger@mills.edu) or Zoe (zrosenblum@mills.edu) ASAP if you want one.
Agents attending Pitch Fest:
Kat Salazar is a Publishing Assistant at Red Wheel/Weiser/Conari Press as well as the agency’s newest Associate Agent and the San Francisco Writers Conference Social Media Director. As an Associate Agent Kat is actively looking for Children’s Picture books, Middle-grade, and Young adult. For adult audiences she is interested in Literary Fiction and Urban Fantasy.
Robyn Russell is an associate at The Amy Rennert Agency, a boutique literary agency located in the San Francisco Bay Area. Robyn is actively seeking strong narrative nonfiction, commercial and literary fiction, mysteries, and legal thrillers. She is especially drawn to voice-driven fiction, psychological realism, and rich family dramas in the vein of Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections and Freedom, Eric Puchner’s Model Home, and Lily King’s Father of the Rain.
Felicia Eth picks and chooses books that excite her -handling a small array of literary fiction complimented by provocative, or timely nonfiction that spans the gamut from narrative nonfiction, travelogues, psychology and social issues or quirky books that appeal to her. Felicia’s focus is on books for adult readers. Hers is a one woman shop combining NY savvy with San Francisco style.
Minju Chang joined BookStop in 2006, and represents middle-grade and young adult writers of all genres. She has a particular interest in smart adventure/mystery novels, magical realism, and intense literary fiction, but her real weakness is for funny, clever, and gutsy characters with big attitudes.
Elizabeth Kracht represents both literary and commercial fiction as well as nonfiction at Kimberley Cameron & Associates. She brings to the agency experience as a former acquisitions editor, freelance publicist and writer. In fiction, she represents literary, commercial, women’s, thrillers, mysteries, and YA with crossover appeal. In nonfiction, she particularly loves voice- or adventure-driven memoir, and other nonfiction projects that contribute to the well-being of the self or others in addition to niche projects that fill holes in the market, offer a fresh approach, or make her laugh.
Aside from the agent meetings, all the panels are open to the public.
Looking forward to seeing y’all’s smiling faces on Saturday afternoon!
