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Pitching An Agent: Folio Literary Management

A new agency looks to newspapers, magazines and the web for authors with talent and ideas

Number of agents: Six
Number of clients: "Easily over a hundred, but there's always room for more," says Folio co-founder Scott Hoffman.
Notable clients: David Maine (The Preservationist, Fallen); Robert Hicks (The Widow of the South); Steve Salerno (Sham: How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless); Diane Tyrrel (On the Edge of the Woods); Julianne Maclean (Love According to Lily; and Jackie Spinner (Tell Them I Didn't Cry)
Fiction v. nonfiction: Fifty-fifty

Background: Folio Literary Management opened only recently. Its three principals — Scott Hoffman, Paige Wheeler and Jeff Kleinman — all came from three other agencies ...

The How to Pitch series is worth its weight in gold. In just the first month I'd already benefited enough to consider the cost of joining well worth it. -- Gaen Murphree