Ann Boyle will hear pitches. Ann is an associate agent with Wylie-Merrick Literary 
Agency. Wylie-Merrick is a small agency based in Indiana, with a branch office in New Jersey. Ms. Boyle began working at their New Jersey branch in December of 2006 and quickly graduated from assistant to associate. Before entering the literary industry, Ann was a practicing attorney for 17 years. The skills and knowledge acquired during her former career make her particularly adept at handling all aspects of author representation and contract negotiation. During her years as a lawyer, Ann served as assistant editor and columnist for “Sidebar,” a legal periodical. She also authored numerous articles and columns for professional journals and academic publications. Following her legal career, she worked for several years as a manuscript consultant/editor and served as editor-in-chief for “Kid’s on the Move,” a bi-monthly periodical for parents of children with limb deficiencies.
Currently, Ann represents all types of genre fiction (with the exception of young adult), but most enjoys contemporary (soft) science fiction, urban fantasy, and Christian Inspirational. She has recently started to acquire some nonfiction and is exploring various interests in that area. Right now she is especially looking for unique contemporary science fiction and urban fantasy featuring strong female protagonists, preferably written in third person.
Ann lives in South Jersey with her husband, two kids, two dogs and one cat. When not working, she spends a lot of time fulfilling her responsibilities as coordinator for the Outreach Mission Ministry at her local church, and has been on several Katrina Relief trips. When she does get a break, she heads for the nearest beach (yes, even in the winter) for some downtime with her family.
Stephany Evans will hear pitches. Stephany is president of FinePrint Literary Management, which launched in September
2007 as the merger of the Peter Rubie Literary Agency and the Imprint
Agency. With a background in theatre, film and painting, Stephany Evans began agenting in 1990 with Sandra Martin/Paraview. In 1992, she formed her own agency while serving as editor for alternative health, healing, and personal growth magazine, Free Spirit. Stephany is the ghost author of five published books in the categories of memoir and spirituality.
For seventeen years, Stephany has represented nonfiction writers in the areas of health and wellness, spirituality, lifestyle (including home renovating/decorating, entertaining, food and wine), popular reference, and narrative nonfiction. In fiction, her core interest is in stories with a strong and interesting female protagonist, both literary and upmarket commercial - including chick lit, romance, mystery, and light suspense. Stephany loves to run (her NYC 2006 marathon time is 4:22:10) and is interested in sports, especially women's sports. She likes to laugh and has a somewhat dark sense of humor. And she loves dogs - especially Afghan hounds. Her greatest pleasure comes from discovering a formidable new writing talent, or helping an author shape and take to market her or his potentially world-altering idea.
Stephany is a member of the Association of Author's Representatives, the Author's Guild, and Romance Writers of America; she is a member of the Women's National Book Association, and a member and former co-chair of New York Women in Publishing. She splits her time between her offices in New York City and Marfa, Texas.
Jaimee Garbacik will hear pitches. Jaimee currently oversees acquisitions and all editorial development for The Literary Group International. She has worked with such prominent authors as Homer Hickam, Dr. Marianne Legato, Laura Vaccaro Seeger, Dr. Sanjiv Chopra, and Michael Scott. Jaimee is currently representing both fiction and non-fiction projects. She is interested in up-and-coming fiction authors, graphic novelists with fresh voices, the young adult genre, serious literature, and non-fiction titles concerning sociology, politics, music and cultural studies. Jaimee is a member of the volunteer staff at 826NYC, a nonprofit writing tutorial center in Brooklyn, and distributor of McSweeneys Books as well as its affiliate Superhero Supply Store; she also teaches their graphic novel seminar for children. Jaimee’s poetry and short fiction has appeared in literary magazines in the US and Australia. She holds a degree in anthropology and philosophy from Boston University, where she studied closely under renown editor and literary critic, Christopher Ricks.
Erin Cartwright Niumata will hear pitches. Erin has been in publishing for over fifteen years. She started as an editorial assistant at Simon and Schuster in the Touchstone/Fireside paperback division for several years; then moved over to Harper Collins as an editor, and then she went to Avalon Books as the Editorial Director, working on Romance, Mysteries and Westerns. Erin has edited many authors including Leon Uris, Stuart Woods, Phyllis Richman, Senator Fred Harris, Dean Ornish, Michael Lee West, Debbie Fields, Erica Jong, Brenda Maddox, Lawrence Otis Graham, and Joan Rivers.
Cherry Weiner will hear pitches. Cherry started out by handling science fiction, fantasy, and horror. She now handles all genres. Among the *all genres* she handles a good number of fairly well-known authors in the field of Romance, Westerns and Native American Works. Some nonfiction has even crept into the mix but no poetry. Her experience, being more tentative, she tries not to handle children's and young adult manuscripts, but a few of her authors are doing the y.a. run so she is trying to learn the genre and submitting for them.
