Taryn Fagerness Agency, LLC represents foreign, audio and film subsidiary rights on behalf of literary agents and publishers. The Agency also represents a select number of authors domestically.
Taryn Fagerness comes from five years experience as the Subrights Manager and an Agent at the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency, one of the most powerful literary agents on the West Coast. She’s sold hundreds of books to foreign, audio and film markets, including work by Amy Tan, Lisa See, Irvin Yalom, Don Norman, Anchee Min and many more. She has experience selling subsidiary rights for New York Times bestselling authors, first time authors, and everyone in between, in nearly all genres including literary fiction, thriller/suspense, commercial fiction, romance, history, self-help, business, and children’s. She has exceptional relationships with foreign co-agents, foreign publishers, scouts, audio publishers and film industry professionals, and she handles all aspects of these subsidiary rights from international fair-going to submission, negotiating, and tracking titles through publication and beyond.
The territories to which she sells are: Albania, Arabic, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Catalan, China, Czech, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, UK, Ukraine and Vietnam.
On the domestic side, Taryn Fagerness’s sales have included STUFF: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things by Randy Frost and Gail Steketee (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, spring 2010); ROWING THE ATLANTIC: Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean by Roz Savage (Simon & Schuster, October 2009); SOMETHING MISSING by Matthew Dicks (Broadway, July 2009) and WHO TOOK ALL THE PAPERCLIPS: Fun Things to Do with Office Supplies When the Boss Isn’t Looking (Running Press, November 2008). She has a very hands-on, collaborative approach to editing authors’ work, and looks to build authors’ careers in the US and abroad.