Let me introduce you to Gloria Goodman, she is coming on board as an independent literary agent consultant at WIN & NIM. Gloria is representing the Seventh Avenue Agency on a part-time basis. Who knows, maybe she’ll find the next no.1 National Best Sellers among us! Give it a try; send her your script.

Gloria is well known in Canadian and international publishing circles. She has spent time early in her career at Key Porter Books as the assistant to then President and Publisher Anna Porter. She eventually acquired several authors for the publishing program.

She also worked in the Random House Canada Rights Department selling many projects including Ascension by Steven Galloway in nine countries; Stephen Brunt's Facing Ali in the UK , US and Japan ; and Robert Sedlack's The African Safari Papers in Germany, Holland and the US .

Some other foreign rights successes at Random House were: Tom Wujec’s Pumping Ions (DC) published in over 20 countries and Gloria was responsible for the majority of those deals;  her passion for Charlie Russell’s grizzly bears in Kamchatka resulted in deals for Grizzly Seasons (RHC) in the US and the UK; Grizzly Heart (RHC) was sold to publishers in China, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands and Germany; Ting-xing Ye’s beautiful memoir A Leaf in the Bitter Wind (DC) was published in Australia, the Netherlands, Germany, Japan, the US and the UK.

Gloria also did consulting work for The HSW Literary Agency at the Humber School for Writers.

Recently GLORIA has joined the Seventh Avenue Literary Agency base in Vancouver as an agent on a part-time basis. Gloria resides in Toronto.

Vancouver - Robert Mackwood, President of the Seventh Avenue Literary Agency is pleased to work with Gloria. Robert commented, "I look forward to working with Gloria. She has a wealth of international contacts, worked on many important books in a variety of categories, and her insights on the rights front will be a major asset to us. We've also been friends for so many years and I know we can work well together." Gloria will build a list of both fiction and non-fiction clients at Seventh Avenue.

Seventh Avenue Literary Agency is Vancouver's oldest literary management agency. Representing local, national, and international writers for over 30 years. The Main Office is based in Vancouver, BC. www.seventhavenuelit.com

Gloria is looking for good, sexy thrillers (commercial fiction), business related books, spiritual books, historical romance/fiction, murder mysteries.

Please send an outline and one chapter (if possible) and your bio. If you have already been published, please state the publisher, etc.
Do NOT send full manuscripts, via e-mail at: hettyphil@sympatico.ca