Tag Archives: Robin Straus Agency

People Round-Up, Early February 2023

PEOPLE Madeline McIntosh is stepping down as CEO of Penguin Random House US. At Random House Group, Angelin Adams, Editorial Director, Design & Culture, adds the title of Editorial Director, Potter Gift. She succeeds the recently-retired Lindley Boegehold. At Knopf, Quynh Do joins as Senior Editor. Most recently she was Senior Editor at Zando. Jessica Kastner Keene,…Continue Reading

Literary Agent Contact Sheet 2022

We’ve updated our Literary Agent Contact Sheet for 2022. The 2022 list has contact information for hundreds of literary agents and agencies in the United States. To conserve space, the word “agency” has been omitted from most listings. Those agencies doing business under a single last name are listed alphabetically, with the agent’s first name…Continue Reading

Is an MBA “value added”? Ask the grads

While MBAs have long been thought of as a major advantage in the corporate job market, there have traditionally been relatively few in trade publishing.  But that has been changing in the last decade or so – beyond house heads such as HarperCollins’ Brian Murray, Macmillan’s John Sargeant, and Perseus’s David Steinberger who have theirs (Simon & Schuster’s Carolyn Reidy has a PhD), Random…Continue Reading

A Cup of Good Cheer: Publishers Do Good in 2008

In these tough economic times, it’s nice to hear something other than bad news. So here’s our third annual roundup of publishers doing good. We hope it warms your heart and inspires you in the New Year—here’s to 2009! Each summer, Robin Straus of the Robin Straus Agency volunteers at Circle of Tapawingo, a weeklong…Continue Reading