John Silbersack

About

John is a publishing professional with deep experience as editor, publisher and agent.

He spent 17 years at Trident Media Group as Executive Vice President, representing bestsellers by fiction and non-fiction authors. Before that, he built his publishing background at companies including HarperCollins, Warner Books and Penguin Putnam. He has an AB from Brown University and is the author of several books.

Genres

Agency submission guidelines

Writers should review the agency's agents' pages and decide which one to query; email the chosen agent using the address on their page or their QueryManager link if indicated. Writers should not simultaneously query multiple agents at the agency; submit to only one, and if that agent passes the writer may try another. The title of the project should be included in the subject line, with a brief note on who the writer is and what the book is about, then the first ten pages of the book pasted in the body of the email (not as an attachment). For picture books, the complete text should be included; for illustrations, also include a link to the writer's website if available, or two or three PDFs or JPEGs of the work. For graphic novels, the first ten pages of the script should be pasted in the body of the email, as well as the first five pages of the dummy; if the dummy isn't finished, up to three samples of finished work or a link to an online portfolio should be included. Writers should not send an exclusive query, as queries are meant to be shared with multiple agencies. The Bent Agency only accepts email or QueryManager queries; postal mail submissions will be recycled and not returned.

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Clients include

• Governor John Kasich
• General Wesley Clark
• Chuck Close
• Jean-Michel Cousteau
• Philip K. Dick
• the Frank Herbert Estate
• Dean Koontz
• Ursula K. LeGuin
• Major League Baseball
• NASCAR
• the NBA
• the Obama Inaugural Committee
• Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen
• the Ellen Raskin Estate
• Charles Schulz

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