D4EO Literary Agency: Calendar

D4EO LITERARY AGENCY AGENTS' CONFERENCE SCHEDULES

2012:

Mandy Hubbard: March 2-4, Whidbey Island Writer's Conference, Whidbey Island, WA
Kristin Miller-Vincent: April 20-21, New England SCBWI Annual Conference, Springfield, MA
Mandy Hubbard: July 19-22, PNWA Summer Conference, Seattle, WA
Kristin Miller-Vincent: November 2-3, Atlanta Writer's Conference, Atlanta, GA

2013:

Mandy Hubbard: January 18-20, Miami SCBWI
Mandy Hubbard: February 15-17, San Francisco Writer's Conference
Mandy Hubbard: July 25-28, PNWA Summer Conference, Seattle, WA
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D4EO Literary Agency agents may be available to sit on a panel or speak at your conference. please e-mail the respective agent (firstname@d4eo.com) with conference requests

Agency News

05/7/13: D4EO Literary Agency has promoted Claire Donnelly to Foreign Rights Assistant!

Congratulations to Jon Land, whose PANDORA'S TEMPLE is a finalist for the 2013 Thriller Awards!

04/22/13: ECHOES OF MY SOUL by Robert K. Tanenbaum is a Publishers Weekly Pick of the Week!

In his third true crime offering (after The Piano Teacher), Tanenbaum—best known for his legal thrillers about Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi, lawyers in the New York District Attorney’s office—examines the convoluted and dramatic case that followed the brutal murders of two young women, Janice Wylie and Emily Hoffert, in New York City in 1963. Relying on court transcripts, crime-scene photos, and the reminiscences of his legal mentors—Mel Glass, John Keenan, and D.A. Frank Hogan, all of whom were involved in the case—Tanenbaum recreates the proceedings with a novelist’s sense of plotting. The seasoned attorney and two-time mayor of Beverly Hills, Calif., details how a young black man, George Whitmore Jr. (who had an IQ of less than 70), was connected to the killings by a confession extracted under extreme duress. Luckily, Manhattan Assistant D.A. Glass took an interest in the case and began to question the police tactics used to accuse Whitmore. A clue worthy of crime fiction eventually leads to the capture of the real killer, and a trial cleverly conducted by Keenan reveals police incompetence (and possible malfeasance) and sets Whitmore free. Tanenbaum’s take on the case, which was cited by the Supreme Court in its 1966 Miranda v. State of Arizona decision regarding self-incrimination, is a thrilling and insightful addition to the true crime genre. Photos. Agent: Bob Diforio, D4EO Literary Agency. (May 28)

03/12/13: D4EO author Emily Murdoch's IF YOU FIND ME, releasing March 26, 2012, now has three starred reviews-- from SLJ, Booklist, and Kirkus!

11/28/12: We are pleased to announce the addition of new D4EO agent Samantha Deighton. Click on her page above to learn more about Samantha and what she is looking to represent

9/12/2012: Kirkus Review for Reel Terror: The Scary, Bloody, Gory, Hundred-Year History of Classic Horror Films.

Konow, David (Author)

Oct 2012. 624 p. St. Martin's/Thomas Dunne, paperback, $16.99. (9780312668839). 791.436164.

An exhaustive and entertaining film-by-film history of an oft-maligned genre that refuses to die. Horror films are about as old as the medium itself, and Konow (Bang Your Head: The Rise and Fall of Heavy Metal, 2002) begins with Universal Studio's horror triumvirate of Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff and Lon Chaney and continues to well-known modern-day horror films like The Ring and the Saw franchise. Along the way, he dissects dozens of great and not-so-great movies, including those by respected directors who entered horror only briefly (Polanski and Rosemary's Baby, Kubrick and The Shining), by directors who went on to bigger things (Sam Raimi and The Evil Dead, Peter Jackson and Dead Alive), and directors who made horror their genre of choice (George Romero and Dawn of the Dead, John Carpenter and Halloween). For each film, Konow tells the story of how it came into being and why it works. But he is no dry cinephile; rather, he is an informative, knowledgeable fan. So why does a horror film work? We all like to be safely scared, and the right music helps. Would Jaws be Jaws without its trademark music? Obviously, the right makeup and a good story are important. But often, as Konow frequently points out, it's what's not there that counts: Rosemary's baby is never seen; there's not all that much shown in Psycho's shower scene; there's no music in the original Dracula, which makes it that much more unsettling. On the other hand, "Friday the 13th delighted in letting the blood and heads fly." So maybe the rules are there to be broken. It's such details that make the stories of these films so entertaining. Of course, there will be arguments: Is Se7en really a horror film? Where's the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers? Why do those teenagers keep going into that dark room to be scared senseless? A well-told account of the films that have scared the pants off generation after generation.

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