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agent : gstelter@bakersmark.com
Gretchen Stelter & Bernadette Baker
Baker's Mark Literary Agency
PO Box 8382, Portland, OR 97207
503-432-8170
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Baker's Mark Literary Agency

Baker's Mark Literary Agency is dedicated to matching publishers and writers. We foster mutually beneficial relationships that allow creation and distribution of the best books on the market. Our agency's primary focus is on graphic novels/comics and popular nonfiction. In the pursuit of maximizing technology, we are always looking for projects that experiment with technology, the web, and new book formats.

years experience: 3
GENRES & SPECIALTIES
General fiction, Mystery, Juvenile fiction, Reference, Biography, Business/investing/finance, History, Health, Lifestyle, Sports, African-American, Graphic novels, Comics, Edgy supernatural based thrillers and mysteries for young adults and adults, Books with a wide entry point for audiences
LEADING CLIENTS
Farel Dalrymple, Jeffrey Jones, Gabriel Boehmer, Dan Elconin, Jamie S. Rich, Joelle Jones, Paul Guinan & Anina Bennett, Faith Erin Hicks, Maris Wicks, Sonny Liew, David Axe, RC Morton.
BEST-KNOWN PROJECTS
Dan Elconin's NEVERLAND, a modern and gritty retelling of the story of Peter Pan, where Peter is the antagonist and Hook is a friend to Ricky, to Anica Rissi at Simon Pulse, with Michael del Rosario editing, in a nice deal, for publication in Fall 2009, by Gretchen Stelter at Baker's Mark Literary Agency (World).

Mark Siegel of Holtzbrinck's First Second Books, has preempted a graphic novel titled Germantown by Edgar winner Laurence Klavan and television writer Susan Kim; the world rights deal was handled by Victoria Sanders of Victoria Sanders & Associates and Bernadette Baker of Baker's Mark. Set in a WWII-era immigrant neighborhood in New York, the book tells the story of a comics-obsessed girl who decodes a secret spy message in the pages of a romance novel. Klavan is also the author of The Shooting Script and The Cutting Room (Ballantine).

MOST RECENT SALES/ FORTHCOMING BOOKS
WAR IS BORING, a graphic memoir by David Axe with Illustration by Matt Bors, New American Library for publication in 2010
COMIC BOOKS 101, by Chris Ryall and Scott Tipton to F+W Tow Books for publication in 2009
NEVERLAND by Dan Elconin, to Anica Rissi with Michael Del Rosario editing, Simon Pulse, for publication in 2009
BOILERPLATE: A VICTORIAN ERA ROBOT by Paul Guinan & Anina Bennett, Abrams Image 2009
GERMANTOWN by Susan Kim and Laurence Klavan
THE FIELDING COURSE by Susan Kim and Laurence Klavan
THE WRENCHIES by Farel Dalrymple
SUB-AGENT FOR
Victoria Sanders & Assoc.
KEY PERSONNEL
Bernadette Baker bbaker@bakersmark.com
Gretchen Stelter gstelter@bakersmark.com
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
E-mail query first. If we are interested in seeing more, we will ask you to print out the first 100 pages, or the first five chapters, of your manuscript and mail it to:

Baker's Mark Literary Agency
PO BOX 8382
Portland, OR 97207

You must also include:

1. A cover letter stating the title and one sentence theme of your manuscript.
2. A brief biography on yourself and specifically your writing experience.
3. A self addressed and stamped envelope sufficient to return your materials after our review.

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