Literary agent Taryn Fagerness will discuss her work at noon, Wednesday, November 9, in the Honors Hall Lounge as part of the free, public Department of English Visiting Writer Series.
Taryn Fagerness will share her own experience and insider tips on how to sell work to the literary market, how to secure an agent, and how to break into the publishing industry for those who are interested in it as a career.
Taryn Fagerness was a founding editor Washington State University’s own literary journal Landescapes in 1999. She then graduated from Washington State University Honors College in 2002 and went on to attend the New York University Summer Publishing Institute. Prior to starting her own literary agency, Ms. Fagerness worked at the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency in Del Mar, California as an agent and subsidiary rights manager.
Taryn Fagerness Agency was established in March 2009. She’s sold hundreds of books to domestic and foreign markets, including work by Jennifer Armentrout, Lisa See, Amy Tan, Neal Shusterman, Charles Mann, Irvin Yalom, Keith and Brooke Desserich, Cayla Kluver, Chloe Palov, Matthew Dicks, Jack Andraka, Kimberly Derting, and many more. She has experience selling subsidiary rights for New York Times bestselling authors, first time authors, and everyone in between, in nearly all genres including literary fiction, thriller/suspense, commercial fiction, romance, history, self-help, business, and children’s. Taryn Fagerness has exceptional relationships with foreign co-agents, foreign publishers, and scouts, and she handles all aspects of selling foreign rights from international fair-going to submission, negotiating, and tracking titles through publication and beyond.
This second event in the 2016-17 Visiting Writer Series, and it is cosponsored by the WSU Honors College.
On February 23, the series will feature performance poet Rebecca Gayle Howell.
Learn more about the Visiting Writer Series at WSU at https://english.wsu.edu/visiting-writers/
Contacts: Debbie Lee, WSU Department of English (https://english.wsu.edu/debbie-lee/), 509-335-6812, deblee@wsu.edu
Karli Pound, Visiting Writers Series Intern, karli.pound@wsu.edu
