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NAME
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Christopher Schelling
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AGENCY
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Selectric Artists
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AAR MEMBER
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No
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EMAIL
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christopher@selectricartists.com
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AGENCY WEB SITE
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http://www.selectricartists.com/
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FICTION GENRES
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Literary Fiction
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Commercial Fiction
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Young Adult
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NONFICTION GENRES
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Memoirs
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Pop Culture
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Narrative
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Humor
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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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DOES NOT REPRESENT
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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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Submit email query. You are welcome to include the full manuscript as an attachment (.doc, .pages, .txt, .odf, .pdf) or Google Docs link.
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FACTS/TIDBITS
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The Selectric Artists list includes Augusten Burroughs, Cinda Williams Chima, John Elder Robison, Louis Bayard, Kim Stanley Robinson and Haven Kimmel, and recently has expanded into other media representation, such as management of the singer-songwriter career of Tony Award-winning actress, Alice Ripley.
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EDUCATION
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NEW DEALS
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PAST/PRESENT CLIENTS
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Running with Scissors: A Memoir
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Augusten Burroughs
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Memoirs
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Picador; 1st Picado edition (June 1, 2003) |
Burroughs's harrowing and highly entertaining memoir about his alcoholic father, an unstable mother who gives him up for adoption to her therapist, and an adolescence spent as part of the therapist's eccentric extended family
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Magical Thinking: True Stories
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Augusten Burroughs
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Memoirs
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St. Martin's Press (October 5, 2004) |
Burroughs's sharp, funny and sometimes brilliant collection in which he views his peculiar life through a lens of self-deprecation
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One For Sorrow
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Christopher Barzak
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Commercial Fiction
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Bantam Books (August 28, 2007) |
The coming-of-age story of a troubled teen boy haunted by the death of a murdered classmate
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She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana
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Haven Kimmel
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Memoirs
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Free Press (December 27, 2005) |
Haven Kimmel's memoir She Got Up Off the Couch might have been called The Further Adventures of Zippy, since it picks up where her bestselling A Girl Named Zippy left off, and is reeled out in much the same vein
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Daddy Needs a Drink: An Irreverent Look at Parenting from a Dad Who Truly Loves His Kids-- Even When They're Driving Him Nuts
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Robert Wilder
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Memoirs
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Humor
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Delacorte Press (April 25, 2006) |
A collection of humorous and harrowing essays about the joys and (mostly) horrors of fatherhood
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Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's
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John Elder Robison
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Memoirs
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Crown (September 25, 2007) |
Robison's memoir of growing up with Asperger's Syndrome and emerging as a fully-realized adult, with a foreword by Robison's brother, Augusten Burroughs
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LINKS
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PREVIOUS AGENCIES
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