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Pitching An Agent: 'I'll Work With The Author to Make It Saleable'

A documentary film background means 'honesty and integrity' aren't just lip service from this nonfiction agent

By Rachel Kramer Bussel – September 25, 2007

Name: Paraview Literary Agency
Number of agents: 1
Number of clients: 82
Notable clients: Lawrence Anthony, Graham Spence, Stacey Wolf, Paul Owens, Norma Eckroate, Marie D. Jones, Edgar Evans Cayce, Dean Radin, and Chellie Campbell
Amount of unsolicited material accepted: 30 percent
Fiction vs. nonfiction: 100 percent nonfiction

Background: Lisa Hagan started out in the documentary film world as a line producer ...

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