AvantGuild: This Agent’s Cooking Up Plenty of Deals

This week’s installment of the mediabistro.com “Pitching an Agent” series touches back with The Lisa Ekus Group, which prides itself on nearly a decade of “working with a wide variety of new and established authors to bring some of the best new culinary books into the marketplace.” Clients include “BBQ Queens” Karen Adler and Judith Fertig, “Real Foods” diva Sherri Brooks Vinton, and beermeister Bob Skilnick. Ekus (right) and her staff also offer PR and media training services, and will also do consultations for aspiring culinary experts. Half of her client list consists of new writers, but be warned: She accepts maybe 10 percent of the unsolicited proposals she receives.

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