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Sarah Dickman - Agent and Director of Foreign Rights

As Director of Foreign Rights at The Nicholas Ellison Agency, Sarah successfully places non-fiction, bestselling authors, and first-time novelists with international publishers who are committed to promoting the longevity of an author's career and to developing audiences abroad.  Sarah is dedicated to the long-term success of the agency's authors and meets regularly with foreign publishers in New York and at the international book fairs (the Frankfurt Book Fair, the London Book Fair, and Book Expo America).  Sarah has had the pleasure of selling foreign rights in over thirty countries for Alan Weisman's international bestseller The World Without Us,as well as helping to make Jeff Lindsay's Dexter series a worldwide phenomenon. Sarah also works with Nelson DeMille and Christopher Moore week to week in many capacities editorially and in the disposition of all rights.

In addition, Sarah represents authors domestically in the U.S. and works with both experienced and first-time authors.  She is drawn to a variety of literary and popular fiction as well as non-fiction projects including business, politics, health, music, memoir, science, and culture.  Sarah graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in English Literature and is fluent in Spanish.

 

 
     
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Sarah’s International Co-agents:

Brazil: RIFF Agency
Bulgaria, Serbia, Albania and Romania: Andrew Nurnberg Associates Sofia
Czech Republic, Slovak Republic and Slovenia: Andrew Nurnberg Associates Prague
France: Eliane Benisti Agence Litteraire
Greece: JLM Literary Agency
Germany: Mohrbooks
Hungary and Croatia: Andrew Nurnberg Associates Budapest
Israel: I. Pikarski Literary Agency
Italy: Agenzia Santachiara
Japan: Tuttle-Mori Agency
Korea: Eric Yang Agency
Latvia, Estonia and Lithunia: Andrew Nurnberg Associates Baltic
Netherlands: Marianne Schonbach Literary Agency
Poland: Graal Ltd.
Russia: Andrew Nurnberg Literary Agency
Scandinavia: Ann-Christine Danielsson Agency
Spain: A.C.E.R. Agencia Literaria
China and Taiwan: Andrew Nurnberg Associates International Ltd.
Thailand: TMA-Big Apple Thailand
Turkey: Akcali Copyright Agency

 

Regan Hofmann’s I Have Something to Tell You sold for six figures to Atria Books and is the poignant and gripping memoir from the compelling, white, heterosexual Editor-in-Chief of POZ magazine who goes public with her HIV positive status after concealing it for ten years. Each chapter of the book centers around an instance of disclosure in Regan's life--writing her story in a five page article for Vogue, being profiled in the New York Times, appearing on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and sharing her story alongside Magic Johnson, or telling her mother three whole months after first receiving her diagnosis in 1996. Regan shares her incredibly courageous story of how she journeyed from being a petrified AIDS "victim" to a (mostly) fearless AIDS activist within a span of 10 years. Coming April 2009.

Text Me: What Girls Must Know About Flirtexting and Why Guys Should Care by Olivia Baniuszewicz and Debra Goldstein is the first book of its kind to cover the new "Rules" of text messaging with an eye towards showing the reader how to get exactly what she wants, from anyone, any time she texts. Text Me will serve as the definitive guide for any woman (or guy) to understanding the rules and etiquette of texting so that she can become master of this suddenly indispensable medium of communication in today's world of flirting and dating. Coming from Skyhorse Publishers in February 2009.
  
From nationally renowned leadership and communication experts Richard Maxwell and Robert Dickman comes a brilliant and fresh book, Elements of Persuasion: How to Pitch Better, Sell Faster and Win More Business. Elements of Persuasion shows you how storytelling is the most effective means of communicating your ideas to others, whether you're a creative type who must sell your vision to the client and sales team or a traditional businessperson pitching your ideas in-house. In alternating chapters, the authors clearly and astutely explore both the theory and execution of effective storytelling in this important book. The book, released by Collins Business in August 2007, has been sold in ten foreign territories to date with reviews in Newsweek, BusinessWeek and many online journals. 

As Wendy Molyneux writes in the opening lines of her hilarious parody, Everything is Wrong With You: The Modern Woman's Guide to Finding Self-Confidence Through Self-Loathing, "other self-help book authors will try to tell you that there's something wrong with you. I’m here to tell you that everything is wrong with you.” Wendy's deadpan delivery and zany brand of humor make this deliciously unsubtle send-up of an advice manual, released by F + W Publications in March of 2008, seriously funny. Wendy is a popular contributor to McSweeney’s Internet Tendency with a strong following online. Several of her pieces were included in the McSweeney’s books Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans, and Mountain Man Dance Moves.