Contacting An Agent
Please read each agent bio to determine who you think would best represent your genre of work. When you have chosen your agent, please write his or her name in the subject line of your email and send it to admin@waterside.com with your query letter in the body of the email, and your proposal or [...]
Jill Kramer
Jill Kramer was the Editorial Director at Hay House, Inc., for 18 years; and worked with numerous New York Times best-selling authors including Louise Hay, Wayne Dyer, Marianne Williamson, Neale Donald Walsch, Tavis Smiley, Ben Stein, Carnie Wilson, Cheryl Richardson, and more. She is currently available for representation of quality fiction with empowering themes for [...]
Bill Gladstone
Bill Gladstone founded Waterside Productions, Inc. in 1982 and has personally placed more than 5000 titles with dozens of publishers. He has represented stars of the technical world ranging from Peter Norton to Linus Torvalds and was responsible for selling the first “For Dummies” book, Dos for Dummies by Dan Gookin, which led to the [...]
Margot Maley Hutchison
Margot Maley Hutchison has been a senior literary agent with Waterside Productions, Inc. since 1992. She has represented more than 1,200 books and generated over 15 million dollars in revenue for her authors. She represents quality nonfiction on the following topics: computer, health, psychology, parenting, fitness, pop-culture, and business. She prides herself on working with [...]
Carole Jelen
Carole Jelen McClendon V.P. Literary Agent at Waterside Productions/San Francisco Bay Area carole@jelenpub.com 925-930-0883 Current: Premiere publishing agent representing bestselling authors, creating and growing author publishing relationships Acquiring/promoting in top-selling specialty areas of technology, business and self-help arenas. Profile presence in media “Career Builder” Literary Agent designation Representing millions of copies in print. Past: Senior [...]
Lawrence Jackel
Lawrence Jackel former C.E.O. and owner of TAB Books and Lectorum Publishing joined Waterside in December 2005. Over a 30 year publishing career Larry has acquired a complete view of the publishing industry. Larry views publishing as a partnership between authors and publishers. Before owning and running his publishing companies Larry was the President of [...]
Neil Gudovitz
Neil joined Waterside in 2002, forming in cooperation with Bill Gladstone the Waterside Foreign Rights division. Prior to joining Waterside, Neil managed rights for numerous divisions of the Thomson Publishing group and several independent publishing houses as well. He began his publishing career in 1989 as a Rights Assistant at Farrar, Straus & Giroux. At [...]
David Nelson
David C. Nelson is a seasoned publishing professional. He has had an extensive and diverse career in publishing, spanning over thirty years, with experience in sales and marketing, as well as hands on involvement in the acquisition of a wide range of a book projects. He has held senior executive positions at the Penguin Group, [...]
Zach Romano
Zach is the east coast assistant agent to Carole Jelen at Waterside Productions. Zach’s specialty areas include: new media, social media, general business, business/technology, and sustainability and environmental issues, entertainment and sports biographies. Zach has worked at two internships for HarperCollins Publishers, in the Editorial, Marketing, and Publicity Departments of various imprints that published: Got [...]
Kimberly Brabec
Kimberly Brabec has been with Waterside Productions since April, 2000. In her early years at Waterside, she agented a range of nonfiction and fiction, including $30 MUSIC SCHOOL by Michael Dean, THE TURBULENT TWENTIES SURVIVAL GUIDE by Marcos Salazar, and OYSTER BLUES by Michael McClelland. After domestic agenting for several years, Kimberly shifted gears and [...]
