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Lisa Swayne
Bio
Lisa Swayne began her career at G.P. Putnam’s Sons, where she
was fortunate enough to work with best-selling mystery authors Dick Francis, Robert B.
Parker and Lawrence Sanders.
In 1994 she became a senior agent at Adler & Robin Books/Bill Adler Books where she
represented fitness expert Patrick “Sarge” Avon, journalist Arthur Magida and
best-selling computer book author, Sue Plumley, among others. She also packaged
anthologies and other books for William Morrow and Avon Books.
Lisa founded The Swayne Agency in 1997 with only 5 clients. since that time, The Swayne
Agency client list has grown to more that 125 authors, including Justin Martin author of
the bestselling GREENSPAN: The Man Behind Money, Adam Penenberg and Slate.com.
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The Swayne Agency
The Swayne Agency is a full service literary management and consulting firm. We have
access to multiple entertainment media book publishing, radio, movies and television, and
information technology. Our strategy is simple: to identify, develop and grow authors who
participate in these media.
The Swayne Agency client list is full of successful examples of our cross-marketing
strategy. NetSlaves.com (www.netslaves.com)
founders Bill Lessard and Steve Baldwin have written two books, a continuing column and
audio segment for Wired and have radio program in the works for NPR. Slate.com (www.slate.com) has developed a popular line of e-books as
well as Slate Diaries, which was published last fall. Don Mankin, author of TEAMS
AND TECHNOLOGY published by Harvard Business School Press, is a Fortune 500 consultant,
speaker and organizational psychologist. Nancy Collamer is a noted jobs consultant and
founder of JobsforMoms.com, which was bought by Oxygen, and a columnist for Working
Woman magazine. For a full client list, please visit our website at www.swayneagency.com.
Our topics of interest include: business, technology, science, general nonfiction,
biography, history and personal memoirs.
Lisa Swayne founded The Swayne Agency in 1997. Susan Barry, formerly the editorial
director at McGraw-Hill, joined the company in January 2000.
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