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| In today's publishing world, editors and
major houses often no longer have the time or interest to help writers
develop the potential of their projects. It is up to the writers themselves
to create professional-sounding query letters, proposals, and manuscripts.
The Daniel Bial Agency has been helping authors get published for over 25 years. For 14 years he was an editor at HarperCollins, Holt and Longmeadow Press. During this time, he developed numerous areas of expertise, including:
At HarperCollins, where he worked for 10 years, Dan worked with four Pulitzer-Prize winning authors and acquired several New York Times bestsellers, including Hank Aaron's autobiography, I HAD A HAMMER. For the past 12 years, Dan has worked as a literary agent, book packager, and book doctor (both for publishers and authors). He has sold projects to publishers big and small across the United States. Dan was the agent for OSAMA BIN LADEN: THE MAN WHO DECLARED WAR ON AMERICA, a New York Times #1 bestseller. In addition, Dan has written four books (published by Holt, Franklin Watts, and Chelsea House) and translated one (published by Grove-Atlantic). Dan is proud to present the following services
Please e-mail or call before sending any material. *With manuscript critiques, I read the full manuscript, and give a 2-3 page report analyzing of its strengths, weaknesses, and market potential **With book doctoring, I do a line-by-line editorial report (often 10 pages or more), making a wide range of suggestions on how to make the manuscript ready for submission to publishers. |
"We
are indebted…to Daniel Bial, our editor, whose assiduousness
and close attention to detail were enormously helpful. Dan has an
excellent sense of humor, which means that he usually agreed with
us as to what was funny. When he didn't he was generally convincing,
especially when it came to the difficult task of bringing this book
down to its current size." --William Novak and Moshe Waldoks, THE BIG BOOK OF NEW AMERICAN HUMOR (Novak is the famed ghostwriter, author of books with Nancy Reagan, Lee Iacocca, Oliver North, and many others) "In
Daniel Bial I have had a…skilled editor—experienced,
exacting, and patient. He too has made important suggestions and
has exacted more from me than I knew I could deliver. For this faith
and concern, I am deeply grateful." "Special and most grateful
thanks to…a comparatively new friend and associate who influenced
me enormously, Daniel Bial, my editor at Harper & Row. Dan was
always there when I needed him. He helped me constantly with valuable
suggestions. But most of all, I'm thankful to him for doing the
most meaningful cutting job on me since I was eight days old." "You have been great
to work with, helpful and always available. But it doesn't stop
there. A letter you wrote to me—I'm sure you remember the
one—raised the quality of the book several levels. Looking
back on the difficulty I experienced in confronting that letter,
I see now the difference it has made in the finished edition, as
well as in my life. "Thank you, Dan. You've
been the best friend an editor can be and the best editor a writer
could hope for."
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