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NAME
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Douglas Stewart
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AGENCY
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Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc.
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AAR MEMBER
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Yes
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EMAIL
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doug@sll.com
Does not accept email queries.
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AGENCY WEB SITE
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http://www.sll.com/
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FICTION GENRES
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Literary Fiction
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Mystery
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Commercial Fiction
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Women's Fiction
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Young Adult
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Offbeat/Quirky
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Middle Grade
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NONFICTION GENRES
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Memoirs
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Dating/Relationships
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Pop Culture
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Narrative
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CURRENT STATUS
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This agent accepts queries
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MORE INFORMATION
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SPECIAL INTERESTS
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Primary interests are literary fiction, memoir, and narrative nonfiction concerning just about anything as long as the voice is alluring and strong
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DOES NOT REPRESENT
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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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Snail Mail/fiction: query, synopsis, and first 3 chapters with SASE
- Snail Mail/nonfiction: query, bio, proposal, sample chapter with SASE
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FACTS/TIDBITS
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EDUCATION
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NEW DEALS
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PAST/PRESENT CLIENTS
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The Dogs of Babel
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Carolyn Parkhurst
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Mystery
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Women's Fiction
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Little, Brown; (June 13, 2003) |
Grief-ridden professor teaches his dog to talk in order to learn the secrets behind his young wife's apparent suicide
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Lit Life: A Novel
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Kurt Wenzel
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Literary Fiction
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Random House Trade Paperbacks; (July 9, 2002) |
A sardonic take on the New York publishing world, which dissects the troubled writing lives of two authors, one a talented newcomer sidetracked by fame and the other a disillusioned veteran
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Shadow Baby
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Alison McGhee
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Literary Fiction
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Picador USA; (July 6, 2001) |
Obsessed by her mysterious past, which includes both a dead father and grandfather who she never knew, 12 year-old narrator Clara meets an old solitary immigrant metalworker, who scavenges for discarded tin cans and teaches her to see beauty in the overlooked and forgotten
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If You Lived Here: A Novel
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Dana Sachs
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Literary Fiction
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William Morrow; 1 edition (February 27, 2007) |
The story of two women who travel together to Vietnam for very different reasons -- an American woman who is adopting a baby while her marriage falls apart, and a Vietnamese-American woman who is going to back to her home country where her family believes that she has been dead for many years
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Cloud Atlas
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David Mitchell
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Literary Fiction
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Sceptre; New Ed edition (February 21, 2005) |
Mitchell's virtuosic novel presents six narratives that evoke an array of genres, from Melvillean high-seas drama to California noir and dystopian fantasy
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The City is a Rising Tide: A Novel
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Rebecca Lee
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Literary Fiction
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Simon & Schuster (July 17, 2007) |
Early 1990s New York and 1970s Beijing intersect in the memory of Justine, who narrates her own downward spiral into an obsessive, unrequited love
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The Last Cowgirl: A Novel
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Jana Richman
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Literary Fiction
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Women's Fiction
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William Morrow (January 1, 2008) |
The story of a woman who has rejected her western upbringing, but now finds herself pulled back to the land she deserted by the death of a relative as well as a childhood love
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Dangerous Admissions: Secrets of a Closet Sleuth
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Jane O'connor
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Mystery
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Avon A (July 31, 2007) |
Miranda "Rannie" Bookman—43, divorced mother of two—has been forced to take any gig she can get, and that means giving tours at the Chapel School, the ultra-exclusive, ultra-expensive, private academy that her children attend. Certainly not the most interesting of employments . . . at least until someone stumbles across the dead body of the Director of College Admissions.
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Violet on the Runway
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Melissa Walker
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Young Adult
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Berkley Trade (September 4, 2007) |
Violet Greenfield's life changes forever when a lady in giant Chanel shades tells her she could be IT, the next Kate Moss--but taller, and without the PR problems--and Violet, who's been tall, skinny, and P-L-A-I-N practically forever is more than happy to hop on a plane to New York to test the waters of a new modeling career and maybe even a new self
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Miss Popularity (Candy Apple)
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Francesco Sedita
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Middle Grade
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Scholastic Paperbacks (May 1, 2007) |
The story of a twelve-year-old girl, who moves from big-hair Texas to sleepy Maine and helps bring her new school from totally not to totally hot
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