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Literary Agent Directory
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Deborah Ritchken
Biography
Deborah Ritchken is a literary agent with the Marsal Lyon Literary Agency. She has a broad based knowledge of the book world. After college she managed a chain of bookstores in the Midwest; learned editing and production with a small LA-based publishing house, and had positions as a marketing manager at both Prentice-Hall and Harcourt Brace. Deborah was with the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency and for the last four years, the Castiglia Literary Agency.
Deborah is currently looking for lifestyle books, specifically in the areas of food, design and entertaining; pop culture; women’s issues; biography; and current events. Her niche interest is projects about France, including fiction.
A few of her current projects are The Portable Feast by cookbook author and former Bon Appetit Contributing Editor Jeanne Kelley (Rizzoli); My Paris Market Cookbook by Emily Dilling (Skyhorse); Ernesto: Hemingway’s Life in Cuba by literary scholar Andrew Feldman (Melville Books); Hungry for France (Rizzoli); Preservation Pantry: Getting the Most from Your Produce: Root-to-Top, Stem-to-Core by Sarah Marshall (Regan Arts); The Vegan Bible by Jean-Christian Jury (Phaidon); Beach House Brunch and Farm-to Table Desserts by Lei Shishak, Open-Faced: 65 Sandwich Recipes From Around the World by Karen Kaplan, 20-year alum of Bon Appetit; Smoke Roots Mountain Harvest by Lauren McDuffie (Chronicle Books); (Not Quite) Mastering the Art of French Living by Mark Greenside; Becoming Cliterate: Why Orgasm Equality Matters and How to Get It by Dr. Laurie Mintz (Harper One) and Bringing Monet’s Giverny Home by Aileen Bordman (Dey Street Books).
Notes
This literary agent represents:
FICTION: General Fiction * Literary * Multicultural Fiction *
NONFICTION: Biography * Cooking/Cookbook * Current Events/Affairs * Design * Film/Entertainment * Food/Drinks * General Nonfiction * Memoir * Multicultural * Travel * Women’s Issues *
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