Irene Goodman
Irene Goodman has been a leading member of the publishing community for over 25 years. Her clients are regulars on the New York Times, USA Today, Walden, Publishers Weekly, and Bookscan bestseller lists. She began her career as the assistant to the agent who represented Stephen King, and established her own agency a year later. Her non-fiction list includes memoir, narrative history, music, social issues and commentary, animals, parenting, food, Judaica, Anglophilia, Francophilia, crafts, and lifestyle. Her fiction list includes historical fiction, women's fiction, thrillers, literary fiction, and mysteries. Together with her dynamic staff, her agency represents over seventy authors in these fields. Deals range from five to seven figures.
Irene is the creator of the "power summit meeting", a highly effective day in which all the key people in the author's professional life get together in one room to focus on the author's career. This technique enhances and accelerates the author's growth beyond the sum of its parts. It allows everyone to invest in the author's vision, and functions like a shot of adrenaline to the team.
Irene has written columns and articles for a number of writers' publications, including the Novelists Ink newsletter, the Mystery Writers of America newsletter, Solander (the newsletter of the Historical Novelists Society), the Romance Writers of America newsletter, and many regional publications. She is also a frequent speaker at writer's conferences, including keynoting at the Historical Novelists Society and Novelists Ink., and workshops at the Romance Writers of America, the Surrey International Writers Conference, the Pacific Northwest Writers Conference, legal fiction conferences, and Malice Domestic.
Originally from the Midwest, Irene has a B.A. and a master's degree from the University of Michigan. She divides her time between New York and the Berkshires. Her personal passions include opera, Doonesbury, Mark Twain, theatre, and children.