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A Parent’s Guide to Teen Addiction
Treachery Times Two
MIRROR MEDITATION
The Invisible Promise
RETRIBUTION
The Next American City
Striving for Justice
The New City
Belonging
A Call to Farms
The New Digital Age
The Loyalist Team
About the Agency
Mel Parker is a literary agent with a long track record of helping authors succeed. After nearly 40 years as an editor and publisher, working with some of the most popular storytellers of our time, such as Tom Clancy, James Patterson, Nelson DeMille, Scott Turow and Dean Koontz, Mel brings a wealth of experience to the task of representing authors and helping them navigate the publishing world.
“Mel’s smarts, his sense of what makes a great story, and his ability to get books across to the public make him an invaluable publishing professional.”
-James Patterson
News from Mel Parker Books
RECENT AND FORTHCOMING TITLES:
STRIVING FOR JUSTICE: A Black Sheriff in the Deep South by Nathaniel Glover was published by Frederick Douglass Books-audio rights to Recorded Books.
THE NEW CITY: How to Build Our Sustainable Urban Future by Dickson Despommier, Ph.D., was published by Columbia University Press–audio rights to Redwood Audiobooks.
A CALL TO FARMS: Finding the Way Back to Nature, Food, and Community in the Modern World by Jennifer Grayson will be published by Countryman Press/W.W. Norton for publication in July 2024.
Forty years’ experience as an editor and publisher, now representing nonfiction and fiction authors.
Serving nonfiction authors who have an original, news-making book concept, a well-developed online presence, and are natural storytellers.
Supporting novelists with distinctive voices who write character-driven fiction, especially literary fiction, psychological suspense, and crime fiction of all kinds.
Small, selective client list allows Mel Parker Books to become the author’s fiercest advocate from contract through publication.
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Forty years’ experience as an editor and publisher, now representing nonfiction and fiction authors.
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Serving nonfiction authors who have an original, news-making book concept, a well-developed online presence, and are natural storytellers.
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Supporting novelists with distinctive voices who write character-driven fiction, especially literary fiction, psychological suspense, and crime fiction of all kinds.
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Small, selective client list allows me to become the author's fiercest advocate from contract through publication.