MARCIA MARKLAND is an editor with Thomas Dunne Books, which is part of St. Martin’s Press. She worked at St. Martin’s many years ago, and then went on to be the editor of the Mystery Guild at The Literary Guild. She returned to St. Martin’s several years ago and is delighted to be working with many talented and distinguished writers.

Marcia concentrates on suspense fiction, but she has been known to work on nonfiction as well. Recent acquisitions include Breaking News, a memoir by Martin Fletcher, NBC News Bureau Chief, Tel Aviv; Even Cat Sitters Get the Blues, by Blaize Clement (an author discovered at SleuthFest); Mozart’s Ghost, a love story by Julia Cameron, author of the bestselling The Artist’s Way; Silence of the Grave, by Arnaldur Indriđason, winner of the 2005 Crime Writer’s Gold Dagger Award; Raven Black, by Ann Cleeves, winner of the 2006 Crime Writer’s Duncan Lawrie Award (formerly the Gold Dagger Award); A Safe Place for Dying, by Jack Fredrickson, nominated for a Shamus Award for Best First Crime Novel; The Cruel Stars of the Night, by Kjell Eriksson; and The Hunted, by Floridian author Wayne Barcomb.

Maryglenn McCombs is an independent book publicist based in Nashville, Tennessee. Maryglenn works with a number of authors and publishers. Among her publisher clients is Oceanview Publishing, an independent, Florida-based publisher of mystery/thriller/suspense, whom she has represented since the company was launched in 2005. Since that time, Maryglenn has promoted the works of such Oceanview authors as: Sharon Potts, Don Bruns, Ward Larsen, H. Terrell Griffin, Deborah and Joel Shlian, David Morrell, Miles Corwin, Barbara Levenson, Robert and Patricia Gussin, and others.

Maryglenn has been actively working in the book publishing industry since 1993, and has been involved in the publication and promotion of hundreds of books. After starting her own publishing company in 1995, Maryglenn transitioned into the role of book publicist in the late 90s. Maryglenn represents some non-fiction titles, but focuses primarily on titles within the mystery/suspense/thriller genres.
 

A native of Munfordville, Kentucky, Maryglenn graduated from Vanderbilt University with a degree in English.
She is an active volunteer with the Nashville Humane Association, and loves devoting her spare time to helping homeless pets find forever homes.

Maryglenn lives in Nashville with her husband, Tim Warnock, and their Old English Sheepdog, Garcia.
For more information, please visit www.maryglenn.com.

Prior to starting at the Waxman Literary Agency, Pinter worked as an editor at St. Martin’s Press, Random House and Warner Books (now Grand Central Publishing). He is also the internationally bestselling author of five thriller novels, which have been nominated for numerous awards with 1.5 million copies in print in over dozen languages, as well as two different upcoming series for Middle Grade and Young Adult readers. He brings varied publishing experience and expertise having worked as an editor, author and agent, to not only guide authors through the submission process, but through the publication of their books and beyond. He aspires to help new authors build successful careers, and give published authors the tools and guidance to reach the next level. He is a sucker for stories about ordinary people thrust into extraordinary situations, and normal people who must overcome seemingly insurmountable odds. He is a member of International Thriller Writers and Mystery Writers of America, and is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post and The Daily Beast.
 

Nicole Resciniti is an associate agent at The Seymour Agency. In addition to working with Mary Sue to negotiate clients’ rights, Nicole divides her time between NJ and Naples, where she has established The Seymour Agency’s Southwest Florida Office. She is currently accepting submissions and actively building her client list. She represents romance (all genres), YA, women's fiction, mysteries, commercial thrillers, Inspirational, and sci-fi/fantasy. In nonfiction, she prefers medical, scientific, and political material, as well as how-to proposals from qualified professionals.

Nicole is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University and holds degrees in biology, psychology, and behavioral neuroscience. She is a member of AAR, RWA, ACFW, and Mensa. Visit her at www.theseymouragency.com.

MEG RULEY’S career as a literary agent is bracketed by two beautiful book-filled buildings. As a teen bookworm, Meg worked at the Nantucket Atheneum Library, a gorgeous Greek-Revival literary institution. She was geeky enough to be thrilled that “athenaeum” came from the goddess Athena, whose celestial duties included cultivation of wisdom and literature. Somewhere at the intersection of the novels of Victoria Holt and the Lew Archer mystery series, if such can be imagined, she realized reading and writers were her alpha & omega. After working briefly for a publishing firm, Meg came to a second beautiful building, the Manhattan townhouse where Jane Rotrosen Agency is located. Two decades later, her list of clients reflects those iconic favorites from those Atheneum days, including authors of best-selling women’s fiction as well as suspense, thrillers, and mystery.

Johnny Temple is the publisher and editor-in-chief of Akashic Books, an award-winning Brooklyn-based independent company dedicated to publishing urban literary fiction and political nonfiction. He is also the cofounder, with Akashic senior editor Ibrahim Ahmad, of Brooklyn Wordsmiths, an editorial and consulting company. Temple won the American Association of Publishers’ 2005 Miriam Bass Award for Creativity in Independent Publishing; and the 2010 Jay and Dean Kogan Award for Excellence in Noir Literature. Temple plays bass guitar in the band Girls Against Boys, which has toured extensively across the globe and released numerous albums on independent and major record companies. He has contributed articles and political essays to various publications, including The Nation, Publishers Weekly, AlterNet, Poets & Writers, and BookForum. He is also the Chair of the Brooklyn Literary Council, which works with Brooklyn’s borough president to plan the annual Brooklyn Book Festival in September.

PAIGE WHEELER is a founding partner of Folio Literary Management, LLC. Over the course of her career, Ms. Wheeler has worked as an agent in both a literary and entertainment capacity. Prior to FOLIO, Ms. Wheeler founded the literary agency, Creative Media Agency, which she ran for nine years. At New York-based Artists Agency, she represented writers, producers and celebrities for television.

Ms. Wheeler has worked with a wide variety of award-winning authors and celebrities, such as Nora Roberts, Robin Leach, Kathleen Eagle, Gordon Elliott, Candace Camp, Bob Vila, Emilie Richards, Karen Salmansohn, Kate Kingsbury, and The James Beard Foundation, to name a few.

Currently she represents international and award-winning authors in commercial fiction and upscale fiction, as well as narrative nonfiction and prescriptive nonfiction. She represents Roberta Isleib, Casey Daniels, Kate Kingsbury, Linda O. Johnston, to name a few, and is actively searching for both literary and commercial thrillers.