Welcome to Fresh Books
Fresh
Books represents new and established authors of non-fiction.
Our current areas of interest include: computers
and technology, popular science, natural history, current
events, health and fitness, photography and design, business
and personal finance, travel,
cooking, and books of western regional interest.
If
you’d like to submit a book proposal, please visit our submissions
page for
more information. Why “Fresh Books?”
Fresh
Books is probably the only literary agency located on either
slope of the Sierra Nevada, and we’re proud of it. We’re smack
dab in the middle of a semi-rural area outside of Placerville,
California, and we chose the name because it represents our
sense of growing a vital new business from the ground up and
working with our clients toward their long-term goals. We’re
a boutique agency but we do more than just books. We also
represent some of our clients for corporate writing gigs,
white papers, online training and dvds. We try to keep you
up to date with client news and links to news of note from
the publishing industry at large. For regular updates, or
to see what catches our eye, you can visit the Fresh
Books Blog.
Who
is Fresh Books?
Matt
Wagner, president, founder, and literary agent, founded
Fresh Books in January of 2005, after working
with his previous agency for almost 16 years.
Amy Wagner is our treasurer, assistant agent, proofreader,
and chief of inspiration.
What
sorts of books do you represent?
Recently
published and/or sold books include –
Macs for Dummies, by Ed Baig (Wiley)
Skin: The Complete Guide to Digitally Lighting, Photographing,
and Retouching Faces and Bodies, by Lee Varis (Sybex)
Diary of a Real Estate Rookie, by Alison Rogers (Kaplan)
How to do Everything in Second Life, by Richard Mansfield
(McGraw-Hill)
Sex in a Tent: A Wild Couple’s Guide to Getting Naughty
in Nature, by Michelle Waitzman (Wilderness Press)
Music Theory for Dummies, by Michael Pilhofer and Holly
Day (Wiley)
Web Marketing for Small Businesses: 7 Steps to Explosive Business
Growth, by Stephanie Diamond (Sourcebooks)
Professional Manga: Digital Storytelling With Manga Studio
EX, by Steve Horton and Jeong Mo Yang (Focal Press)
Practical Artistry: Light and Exposure for Digital Photographers,
by Harold Davis (O’Reilly)
100 Views of the Golden Gate, by Harold Davis (Wilderness
Press)
The Myth of Multitasking: How “Doing It All” Gets
Nothing Done, by Dave Crenshaw (Jossey-Bass)
Anthropology for Dummies, by Cameron Smith (Wiley)
About
Matt Wagner
Prior
to founding Fresh Books in January of 2005, Matt Wagner
was a literary agent with Waterside
Productions, Inc., where he sold well
in excess of 1000 books and represented such bestselling
technical
and computer
book authors
as Andy Rathbone, Windows for Dummies; Dan Gookin, PC's
for Dummies; Wally Wang, Steal This Computer Book; Katrin
Eismann, Photoshop
Restoration and
Retouching; and Gordon McComb, Robot Builder's Bonanza.
On
the trade and reference side he represented such authors
as Patrick Pfieffer, Bass Guitar for Dummies; Phil Reed
and Dr.
Tom Amberry, Free
Throw; Sue Spector
and Stanford Wong, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Gambling
Like A Pro; and many others.
Before
joining Waterside in 1989, Matt worked as a coffee jerk,
cab driver, and book clerk and buyer at the famed
Boulder
Bookstore in Boulder,
Colorado.
Matt
holds a B.A. in Creative Writing and Literature from U.C.
Santa Cruz
(1985), and studied playwriting and dramaturgy in the
Professional Theatre Training
Program at U.C. San Diego.
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updated: 08-11-08 |
