LUCIENNE DIVER JOINS THE TKA TEAM
Posted May 14th, 2008

The Knight Agency is thrilled to announce that veteran literary agent Lucienne Diver has joined our team. She brings with her a dynamic, bestselling client list as well as fifteen years of experience at New York City’s Spectrum Literary Agency, one of the oldest and most respected firms in the publishing industry. Deidre Knight and the rest of TKA welcome Lucienne as a kindred spirit with her dynamic and vibrant personality and her love of books of all kinds.

Lucienne graduated summa cum laude from the State University of New York at Potsdam with duel majors in English/writing and anthropology. She thus came well-equipped for her career in agenting, and is proud to represent many bestselling authors of fantasy, science fiction, romance, mystery and suspense. Marjorie M. Liu, Susan Krinard, Roberta Gellis, Rachel Caine and P.N. Elrod are just a few of the terrific names on her client roster.

Agency President Deidre Knight first met Lucienne more than ten years ago. For Deidre, having Lucienne join TKA is the culmination of that decade-long relationship, both as fellow agents and friends.

Regarding the move, Lucienne says, “It’s not easy to leave behind fifteen years at Spectrum, which still has so much of my love and respect. But, in many ways, it was time to leave home and I'm looking forward to all of the opportunities that joining a larger and very vibrant agency will provide.”

The Knight Agency asks that you join them in celebrating Lucienne’s arrival on their staff. For press interviews contact Elaine.Spencer@Knightagency.net

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RITA AND GOLDEN HEART FINALISTS ANNOUNCED
Posted April 23rd, 2008

It’s that time of the year again, Romance Writers of America has announced their finalists for the best romance titles of the past year. The Golden Heart and Rita awards recognize the best completed manuscript and published title (respectively) in their genres.

We are honored to again be a part of the celebration via our many clients and sold titles that have made it onto the 2008 list. The winners of each respective category will be announced on August 2, 2008 at the annual National Convention being hosted in San Francisco.

Without further adieu we are thrilled to announce the following finalists. 2008 Golden Heart for Best Young Adult Manuscript finalist: Wishing You Were Here by Catherine Chant, 2008 RITA for Contemporary Single Title Romance Finalist: She's no Angel by Leslie Kelly, 2008 RITA for Inspirational Romance Finalist: Autumn Blue by Karen Harter, 2008 RITA Romance Novella Finalist: "Fallen Angel" in A Western Winter Wonderland by Jenna Kernan, 2008 RITA Romance Novella Finalist: Mischief and the Marquess" in Perfect Kisses by Sylvia Day.

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NALINI SINGH CLIMBS CHARTS
Posted March 17th, 2008

Knight Agency client Nalini Singh has been having a busy few weeks. MINE TO POSSESS, the fourth book in her Psy/Changeling series was published at the start of February and quickly resulted in a few firsts for Nalini. The book debuted on the New York Times Extended Best-seller list for mass market paperbacks at # 32, then went on to climb to # 29 in its second week. It also hit the USA Today Best-seller list at # 101. And if that wasn't exciting enough, Nalini is hard at work on a new series to be published concurrently with the existing one. The first book, ANGELS' BLOOD -- about a vampire hunter who bags, tags and transports escapee vampires back to their masters…the angels -- is due out in early 2009. A novella set in the same universe will appear in the Berkley anthology MUST LOVE HELL HOUNDS later that same year.

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RED HANDED GOING TO SMALL SCREEN
Posted March 17th, 2008

New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter’s young adult novel RED HANDED (MTV Books 6/07) was recently optioned for television production! The story is about a troubled high school girl as she discovers a new life after being recruited into an elite alien fighting agency. The title was pitched as La Femme Nikita meets Men in Black and Sony Pictures Television (STARGATE SG-1) with Dan Wigatow Productions (REVENGE OF THE MIDDLE-AGED WOMAN) jumped right on board with the project.

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BREAKING NEWS! Tommy Newberry’s The 4:8 Principle debuts on New York Times at #3. TKA has three other Times bestsellers in month of September.
Posted September 20th, 2007

Perhaps a little-known fact is that within the publishing community, The New York Times sends out their upcoming list ten days before the printed one appears in the paper. This emailed list goes out to subscribed publishing companies, who hover anxiously over their authors’ performances. So every Wednesday afternoon, agents, authors and editors stew over the week’s anticipated list. Authors who are currently featured calculate the chances of rising or staying on. Authors with big new releases hope and pray that they’ll make the list at all.

Nerves can grow pretty frayed on late Wednesday for all involved. Last evening was one such time for TKA and its agents.

My family and I were having dinner—at a wonderful Madison restaurant that must have a supernatural smokescreen, one that disrupts all cell and Blackberry coverage. It’s a “Zero Bars” establishment, so to speak. (Well, apart from the bar within the restaurant.) Anyway, over the course of dinner, Jud and I would alternate taking my blackberry “above ground”—AKA upstairs—in order to check email for the week’s list. We knew from watching Bookscan that Tommy Newberry had a good shot at hitting The Times. We also realized that 90 MINUTES would likely stay on, as would Karen Marie Moning’sDARKFEVER mass market.

Finally, far later than usual, the big news came via Tommy’s agent Pamela Harty (who at one point had told me the wait was killing her.) And it was massive news indeed: Tommy’s 4:8 Principle had debuted on the NY TIMES at #3!!! A huge start for this new book. Meanwhile, 90 MINUTES had remained at #2, and Karen at #19. In short, TKA had set an all-time agency record for itself: In the month of September, we had four agency-placed titles on the NY Times list, the most we’d ever had in a single month! Heaven is Real had appeared for three weeks, topping at #13.

Four bestsellers in one month. Two titles at the very top of the list!

It’s a huge time for celebration as The Knight Agency hits a whole new level itself. Join us for a cyber toast. Here’s to making more bestsellers in the future, both with current clients and future ones!

Warmly,

Deidre Knight

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Chart Toppers!
Posted September 17th, 2007

This fall couldn’t look better. The month of September has seen three TKA-placed titles on The New York Times. Don Piper and Cecil Murphey’s HEAVEN IS REAL debuted on the NYT Bestseller list at number 15 and their chart-topping title 90 MINUTES in HEAVEN climbed another notch to reach the number two spot In week #43 on the New York Times Bestseller list.

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Perfect Fall Download!
Posted September 17th, 2007

In one of the best deals to come around this fall, Amazon is offering downloads of excerpts from Diana Peterfreund's SECRET SOCIETY GIRL and UNDER THE ROSE for a mere $0.49! If you are new to Diana’s writing, or are just in need of a quick fix from heroine Amy Haskal’s never-ending adventures, don’t miss out on this great opportunity!