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About us
We
We take as much pride in placing a
first-time author with a small press as
we do a long-term client for a lucrative contract with a major
house. Our goal
is still the same: to provide our clients the best possible
editorial guidance,
contractual advice, career planning, financial accounting and
support.
The agency was founded with several authors Jane Chelius had
edited and
published at Pocket Books prior. While the agency initially
featured a core of
mystery writers, it has since grown to represent popular and
literary fiction,
suspense, women’s literature, and narrative and how-to
non-fiction.
Despite its growth, the Jane Chelius Literary Agency, Inc. still
maintains its
individual focus and is dedicated to cultivating new writers as
well as
working hard for its established clients.
Jane
Chelius is a native New Yorker. Her first full-time job
after
graduation was at Fawcett Gold Medal Books, publishers of
original
paperbacks by the likes of John D. MacDonald, Lawrence Block,
and Donald
Westlake. After several years there, she dropped out briefly to
have her first
child (Mark) and buy and renovate a brownstone (where the
offices are now
located). She put in quite a few years freelancing for various
houses while
rearing young children, and returned to work full-time as an
acquisitions
editor in the mid eighties at NAL. She then moved to Pocket
Books/Simon
and Schuster to found a mystery program, as well as acquire and
edit
projects for their new hardcover list; there she acquired not
only mysteries,
but thrillers, women’s fiction, parenting, humor, biography and
other
narrative non-fiction. After nearly ten years, and an increasing
frustration with
the corporate nature of big publishing houses, she left in 1995
to found her
own literary agency, now representing many of the same authors
she
published as an editor. She is a member of AAR, Women's Media
Group,
Mystery Writers of America, and International Association of
Crime Writers.
Mark Chelius has decided that his career lies in another
field and has
departed the agency after four years. He would like to thank
each and every
client, author and editor with whom he has had the good fortune
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The agency on
Second Street in the
Park Slope
neighborhood of
Brooklyn, New York
Jane Chelius,
President |
