If you could design the digital age, what

a literary agency for would it look like?

In this transitional time, the agent must become the Workʼs inseparable acolyte, accompanying the Work across the value chain.

More than half a millennium removed from the prima typographicae incunabula, "the first infancy of printing," the publishing industry is in a state of intense reorganization--and the course of book history is undetermined. But crisis and opportunity are concurrent, the instability of one paradigm leads to the creation of another. We work in publishing at a moment of both belatedness and birth, when the trend of all future events is being determined. The Movable Type Literary Group aims, with many of our friends and colleagues, to confront the crisis of the moment, and from the upheaval to design and shape a future.

The Moment E-books near 10% as iPad domina The Association of American Publishers (AAP s that e-book sales grew 163 percent in the month of May and 207 percent year-to-date through May. Kindle Kindle book sales in May and year-to-date through May exceeded those growth rates. Amazon sold more than three times as many Kindle eBooks in the first

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The Paradigm As traditional publishing roles are

redefined, MTLG offers more expansive representation, providing

authors advocacy, support, and resources beyond the negotiation table. Emphasizing collaboration

among a community of multimedia artists, and new media dynamism,

MTLG makes use of strategic partnerships with public relations

firms, web developers, videographers and graphic

artists, rights managers, & thought leaders to ensure

authors are discovering & engaging their readers.

artist

Editing

Content  Creation  

Digital  Management  

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Brand  Development  

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While the industry adjusts to an ongoing disintermediation, an Agentʼs role becomes one of radical mediation—ensuring

development across platforms, devices, territories, & currencies.

MTLG staff members have been educated at CUNY, Fordham, Cooper Union, and the Sorbonne, and bring editorial skill honed in academia to each manuscript, while our experience in magazine publishing, non-profit work, public relations, viral marketing, and international rights management keep us alert to commercial interests. Our strategic partners are award-winning publicists, internationally recognized visual artists, celebrity-endorsed digital managers and global brand developers.

The Collective

The Virtue of Collaboration Given the exigencies of our moment, we believe in the virtue of collaboration, that by making our individual resources reasonably available to a community of thoughtful, driven and visionary peers, each of us becomes better at what we do. We seek to form mutually supportive relationships with partners inside and outside publishing, to share opinions, debate ideas, and move through multiplicity to a kind of consensus. In our loose alliances, when we emerge from our private ghettos of hype, fear and hope to offer each other our best, we can become more influential and better prepared to meet the demands of a changing consumer and media culture.

Projects

[selected titles]

An outstanding accomplishment…A historic contribution to the biographical record which will stand for generations." -- Rick Perlstein, author of Nixonland

Independent historian Michael Takiff presents the first truly balanced book on one of the most controversial and fascinating American presidents. Through more than 150 chronologically arranged interviews with key figures including Bob Dole, James Carville, and Tom Brokaw, among many others, A Complicated Man goes far beyond the well-worn party-line territory to capture the larger-than-life essence of Clinton the man.

Michael Takiff is the author of Brave Men, Gentle Heroes (William Morrow, 2003). His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times

A Complicated Man

The Life of Bill Clinton as Told by Those Who Know Him

By Michael Takiff | Yale University Press, Oct 2010

From the Academy Award nominated writer & director of the seminal horror classics The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Poltergeist comes a harrowing new tale thatʼs more real than you can imagine.

Horror legend and inventor of the slasher film, Tobe Hooper makes his publishing debut with Midnight Movie, a tale as shocking and inventive as his now-classic films. Mixing personal experiences with imaginative fiction, Hooper offers a story of global terror brought about by his own work. After a screening of Hooper's lost film causes a nationwide outbreak of brain-eating, the longtime Hollywood director is forced to delve into long-forgotten corners of his past to reverse the curse, rescue the world, and perhaps save his own soul.

Midnight Movie

By Tobe Hooper | Crown/Three Rivers, July 2012

Paul is Undead

In this searing oral history, discover how the Fab Four climbed to the Toppermost of the Poppermost while stealing the hearts, ears, and brains of smitten teenage girls. Learn the tale behind a spiritual journey that resulted in the dismemberment of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Marvel at the seemingly indestructible quartet’s survival of a fierce attack by Eighth Level Ninja Lord Yoko Ono. And find out how the boys escaped eternal death at the hands of England’s greatest zombie hunter, Mick Jagger. Ladies and Gentlemen, it’s time to really meet the Beatles!

“A Post-modern Gothic classic. – Mick Wall, author of When Giants Walked the Earth: A Biography of Led Zeppelin “Brilliant. Hilarious. Two Decaying Thumbs Up.” – Jonathan Maberry, author of Patient Zero and Rot & Ruin

The British Zombie Invasion

Alan Goldsher is the author of Modest Mouse: A Pretty Good Read (Thomas Dunne, 2002). He has

ghostwritten numerous published projects for comedians, chefs, directors, and musicians.

By Alan Goldsher | Simon & Schuster, July 2010

Waxed "Intoxicating and irreverent, Rave's lowdown on an upscale Manhattan waxing salon exposes the secrets of three sisters whose lives are filled with dishy complications. Rave waxes eloquent in this hilarious soap as the sisters become independent women with some outside guidance, friendship, and inner musings." -- Publishers Weekly

“Rave gets it totally right in this charming and hilarious novel about love, sisterhood, and dating. . . . The perfect read and a ton of fun!” ---Beth Harbison, New York Times bestselling author of Hope in a Jar

Waxed

By Robert Rave | St. Martinʼs/Griffin, Aug 2010

A former publicist, Robert Rave has worked on numerous PR campaigns and high profile special events in the lifestyle &entertainment industries. He is the author of SPiN (St. Martin’s, 2009)

Viewed monthly by more than half a million people in more than 90 countries, the site learnsomethingeveryday.co.uk has educated and entertained the world.

The award-winning British design studio We Are Young has garnered global accolades for fresh, clean, playful graphic designs. In the fall of 2009, they invited users to begin submitting little-known facts, which the studio would offer, with accompanying clever illustratations, once every day. One year later, their Website is a global phenomenon. Their new book showcases 365 of their favorite facts and illustrations.

Learn Something Every Day

By WeAreYoung

Penguin/Perigee, January 2011

Young is owned and managed by Pete Jarvis and Gethin Vaughan. In the past year they have created illustratoins for the V&A Museum, and displayed their designs at museums around the world.

Jasmine and Fire

For most of her professional life, food and travel writer Salma Abdelnour has traveled the world in search of great food and great places. For six years she worked as travel editor at Food and Wine, and then served as Food Editor at Oprah Magazine. But through all her travels, one place held her attention: Beirut. Does this city, she wondered, the city where she spent her childhood, the city she was forced to flee during civil war, have any room for her as an adult? And does she have any use for it? What might have happened if she had not fled with her family--how different might she be? To answer these, she moves back to Beirut to discover the home she never really knew, and through Lebanese cuisine -- the food of her childhood memories and her adult dreams -- answer the existential question that's followed her for years: does she belong anywhere at all?

Adventures in a Reborn Lebanon By Salma Abdelnour Crown/Broadway, June 2012

Salma Abdelnour is currently living in Beirut, where she is at work on her memoir. Her writing has appeared in Food & Wine, the New York Times, the Economist, and many other magazines.

"Creepy, chilling… Brallier gives the choose-your-own-adventure format a devious adult twist." —Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of Rot & Ruin

With Can You Survive the Zombie Apocalypse comes a 100% fresh take on the genre: a zombie story for adults told in the classic “Choose Your Own Adventure” style. No longer are you given the luxury of sitting back and watching the fools on the page or screen make all the wrong moves. Now, on a hot and humid July morning, zombies have come to Manhattan. You have choices to make now – lots of them. Will you survive the coming hours, days, weeks, and months? Or will you die amidst the chaos and violence of a zombie uprising? Or, worst of all, will you become one of them...

Can You Survive the

By Max Brallier | Simon & Schuster, Feb 2011

Zombie Apocalypse?

Max Brallier is the author of Reasons to Drink and Reasons to Smoke (Running Press). By day he works in publicity at a large New York publisher.

“This is the allure of the road in France: hedonism, particularly concerning eating, has survived throughout time and change, in a culture that has braved adversities more grave than fads.”

In the middle of the tumultuous 1960s, Gerry Dryanksy took his wife to Paris. Decades later, they’re still there. Gerry and Joanne have called Paris home all that time, and Gerry has become an authority on Europe’s people and culture, and in particular, its world of food. Longtime Senior European Correspondent for Condé Nast Traveler, Dryansky’s culinary memoir brings to life some of the most fascinating, glamorous years in France--where as a food aficionado he was insider to the seismic changes in the cuisine of the culture--and uncovers for readers the treasures of some of the obscure, gifted artisans of the French countryside.

Lost & Found in France

A Food Loverʼs Memoirs and Manifesto By Gerry Dryansky | Pegasus, Nov 2011

J&G Dryansky has co-written three novels with his wife Joanne, including FATIMA’S GOOD FORTUNE now in development by Jean-Jacques Beineix (DIVA), after having been published in the US, throughout Europe, and in Asia.

Icelander

A fun, whimsical and stylish postmodern journey replete with colorful characters, meta-narrative hi-jinks, and writing that isn't afraid to show its literary influences. The story, on the surface, is a whodunit set in an Iceland of fictitious cities and fantastical underground lands, in which Our Heroine (the only name given to the book's central character) searches for her lost dog while reluctantly solving the mystery of who murdered her best friend.

Nabokov meets Lemony Snicket in this manic Chinese box version of a mystery. – Publishers Weekly

Dustin Long lives and teaches in New York City, where he is at work on a second novel.

By Dustin Long | McSweeneyʼs/Grove, 2007

The Havana Habit

Cuba, an island 750 miles long, with a population of about 11 million, lies less than 100 miles off the U.S. coast. Yet the island’s influences on America’s cultural imagination are extensive and deeply ingrained. In the engaging and wide-ranging Havana Habit, writer and scholar Gustavo Pérez Firmat probes the importance of Havana, and of greater Cuba, in the cultural history of the United States. Through books, advertisements, travel guides, films, and music, he demonstrates the influence of the island on almost two centuries of American life.

By Gustavo Perez Firmat Yale University Press, Oct 2010

A poet, fiction writer, memoirist, and scholar, Gustavo Pérez Firmat is the David Feinson Professor of Humanities at Columbia University. He is the author of eighteen books; his study of Cuban American culture, Life on the Hyphen, was awarded the Eugene M. Kayden University Press National Book Award. He divides his time between New York City and Chapel Hill, NC.

When Adrienne Arieff and her husband Alex learned they were unable to have children, they considered, like millions of couples, the traditional options. And then they chose what many would consider the most unlikely and unexpected path: surrogacy...in India.

Adrienne Arieff’s inspiring memoir tells the story of two women — an American longing to have a child and an Indian woman yearning to give her family a better life – and the remarkable journey they embarked upon to create a family. With the help of a inspiring Indian doctor, an Indian surrogate named Vahida, a loving husband, a skeptical best friend, and a cast of surprising and hospitable Indian friends, Adrienne experiences her own unique path to motherhood. Along the way she discovers the challenges and promises of the growing global phenomenon of foreign surrogacy— what it is & what it means for Indian families and for the American couples who seek them out.

By Adrienne Arieff, with Bev West Crown, July 2011

Adrienne Arieff is the Principal of Arieff Communications, a global branding company with offices in Los Angeles, New York, and London, specializing in lifestyle products and fashion.

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