Noah Lukeman
Noah
Lukeman is President of Lukeman Literary Management Ltd, which he founded in
1996. His clients include winners of the Pulitzer Prize, American Book Award,
Pushcart Prize and O. Henry Award, finalists for the National Book Award, Edgar
Award, and Pacific Rim prize, multiple New York Times bestsellers, national
journalists, major celebrities, and faculty of universities ranging from Harvard
to Stanford. He has also worked in the New York office of a multi-talent
management company, where he represented many New York Times Bestsellers, and,
prior to founding his agency, he also worked for another New York literary
agency. Prior to becoming an agent he worked in the editorial departments of
several publishers, including William Morrow, Delphinium Books and Farrar,
Straus, Giroux, and as editor of a literary magazine. He was creator of
PrePub.com, one of the first publishing rights websites, which eventually became
the "Booktracker" division of Inside.com. As a literary agent, he has
been written up in media ranging from The New York Times to Variety
(Page 1).
Mr. Lukeman is
also an accomplished author. His best-selling The
First Five Pages: A Writer’s Guide to Staying out of the Rejection Pile
(Simon & Schuster, 1999), was a selection of many of Writer’s Digest 101
Best Websites for Writers and is now part of the curriculum in many
universities. His The
Plot Thickens: 8 Ways to Bring Fiction to Life (St. Martins Press, 2002)
was a National Bestseller, a BookSense 76 Selection, a Publishers Weekly
Daily pick, a selection of the Writers Digest Book Club, and a selection of many
of Writer’s Digest 101 Best Websites for Writers. His A
Dash of Style: The Art and Mastery of Punctuation (W.W. Norton, 2006 and
Oxford University Press in the UK, 2007) was critically-acclaimed, a selection
of the Writers Digest Book Club and the Forbes Book Club, was profiled on NPR,
and is now part of the curriculum in over 50 universities and writing programs.
His e-book How to Write a
Great Query Letter, which he gives away for free as a way of giving back
to the writing community, has been the #1 Bestselling title on Amazon Shorts for
many months. His most recent book geared to help aspiring authors is How
to Land (and Keep) a Literary Agent. He has also made available over 100
pages of free advice for authors from all his books, which you can read by
clicking here. Mr.
Lukeman's Op-Eds have appeared in the Sunday New York Times, The Wall
Street Journal and The Dallas Morning News, and he has contributed
articles about the publishing industry and the craft of writing to several
magazines, including Poets & Writers, Writers Digest, The Writer, the
AWP Chronicle and the Writers Market, and has been anthologized in
The Practical Writer (Viking, 2004). To read more about Mr. Lukeman's
work as an author, visit his personal site, www.noahlukeman.com.
Noah Lukeman
has been a guest speaker on the subjects of writing and publishing at numerous
forums, including