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Literary Agent Directory
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Sharlene Martin
Biography
Sharlene Martin is a literary agent with Martin Literary Management. In 2003, Sharlene took her passion for great stories and their authors and her years in the entertainment industry, to form Martin Literary & Media Management. Her agency has experienced extraordinary success in sales and alliances. In the years since that time, her remarkable rise in the publishing industry is demonstrated by a rapidly growing list of non-fiction sales to such renowned major publishers as Random House, Rodale, Harper Collins, St. Martin’s Press, Penguin Putnam, Hachette, Simon and Schuster, as well as to a host of boutique publishers for specialized genre books.
She has represented numerous New York Times bestselling nonfiction books, including: Impossible Odds: The Kidnapping of Jessica Buchanan and Her Dramatic Rescue by SEAL Team Six by Anthony Flacco; Picture Perfect: The Jodi Arias Story by Shanna Hogan; Notes Left Behind by Keith & Brooke Desserich; Raffaele Sollecito’s book, Honor Bound: My Journey to Hell and Back with Amanda Knox; HLN’s Jane Velez-Mitchell’s memoir, I Want; Suzanne Hansen’s You’ll Never Nanny in this Town Again; MaryJo Buttafuocco’s Getting It Through My Thick Skull; and The Goldman family’s If I Did It, based on the OJ Simpson murders of Ron Goldman and Nicole Simpson.
Many of Sharlene’s authors have had their books boosted as serial reprints in prestigious publications such as Readers’ Digest, People Magazine, WHO, and the London Times, and five of her clients have appeared on Oprah. Other client appearances include 60 Minutes, The TODAY Show, The View, Fox and Friends, Good Morning America, The Early Show, 20/20, 48 Hours, Discovery Channel, Inside Edition, The 700 Club, ET, The Insider, ABC Nightline, Dr. Phil, Anderson Cooper 360, CNN, HLN, Discovery ID and Fox News.
She is actively doing business with a host of film and TV companies for adaptations of her clients’ books. Hallmark Hall of Fame’s acclaimed TV movie in December, 2008 was based on her client’s book, Front of the Class. She was Executive Producer of Lifetime’s 2012 movie, The Pregnancy Project, which garnered the two top Imagen Awards in 2012 for Best Primetime Movie/Special and Best Actress (Alexa Vega). She is Co- Creator/Producer of the reality series, DEADLY SINS for Discovery ID, currently entering its sixth season. She was the Co-EP with Nancy Glass Productions for the 2015-16 season of specials, EPIC MYSTERIES, for Discovery ID. She will serve as Executive Producer on the Paramount TV/ Anonymous Content series, based on the Scholastic series Hilde Cracks the Case. She recently optioned Impossible Odds to Warner Bros. for Clint Eastwood to direct and Brian Helgeland adapting. She will also Executive Produce the feature, Hidden Girl, with the Egyptian production company, The Talkies.
She is also the co-author, with Anthony Flacco, of Publish Your Nonfiction Book (Writer’s Digest Books) and Literary Fails: Totally (sic)!.
Publishers, editors and writers who deal with her consistently express their joy in working with someone who is such an avid fan of good writing, as well as an enthusiastic guardian and representative of her clients’ work. She employs this personal touch to all of her business relationships and credits it with her proven record of success.
Sharlene divides her time between her home near Seattle, Washington and Los Angeles.
Notes
This literary agent represents:
FICTION: Children’s Fiction * Ethnic Fiction * Fantasy * Juvenile Fiction * Multicultural Fiction * Mystery * Religious * Romance * Science Fiction *
NONFICTION: Biography * Celebrity * Cooking/Cookbook * Ethnic * General Nonfiction * Health/Wellness * History * Juvenile * Lifestyle * Mind/Body/Spirit * Multicultural * Pop Culture * Religion * Travel * True Crime *
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