Pitching an Agent: Joëlle Delbourgo Associates, Inc.
“Joëlle Delbourgo knows how to sell your book. She spent more than 25 years buying them,” after working for HarperCollins and Ballantine, according to Aileen Gallagher. Delbourgo’s experiences is a boon to her clients, and she knows it: “She cautions that she is not necessarily there to always side with her authors. ‘Authors get very worked up over a lot of things, often because they don’t understand the process. I try to really focus people on what they need to worry about and what they don’t need to worry about. I’m not just providing a service, I’m giving you the benefit of my years of experience.’” Pitch strong nonfiction and fiction according to specifications, but no genre fiction, please.
Join Baratunde Thurston (left), The Onion’s Director of Digital and author of How to Be Black, for an entertaining look at creative social media campaigns in our 
