Your First Novel Revised and Expanded Edition

LAURA WHITCOMB is the author of the young adult novels A Certain Slant of Light, Under the Light, and The Fetch, as well as the writing guide Novel Shortcuts. Her fiction has been published in eleven foreign languages and her first novel was a Barnes & Noble “Discover Great New Writers” selection. She lives in Wilsonville, Oregon with her son.

ANN RITTENBERG acquired her first book, a biography of the Irish short story writer Frank O’Connor; Judy Kern, a genius editor, taught her how to edit it, and the late Harry Ford, the head of production and the poetry editor (at Atheneum and later at Knopf), designed the jacket. Ann became an editor at Atheneum before leaving to join the Julian Bach Agency. When Julian soldhis agency in 1992, she went out and incoporated her own, Ann Rittenberg Literary Agency 

CAMILLE GOLDIN has worked with novelists in a variety of capacities: as the head of foreign rights at a literary agency, in the contracts department of a top publishing house, and at a book scouting company.