When I was teaching, I liked it, but my favorite part of teaching was sharing my love for books, like The Great Gatsby and To Kill a Mockingbird, with my students. What made you gravitate from teaching to publishing? I read in your bio that you are a former teacher. LS: Thanks for taking the time to talk to us. To see recent sales and check out forthcoming books by Suzie’s clients, click here. She drinks too much diet orange soda, has a Starbucks problem (those soy chai lattes are addictive), and lives in New York with her two dogs, Slevin and Fate, who know that chewing on shoes is okay but chewing on books is not. Some of her favorites are When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead, How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff, T he Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, Anne Bishop’s Black Jewels series, and Jacqueline Carey’s Kushiel series. She’s interested in strong characters and voice driven stories: she’s particularly keen on strong female protagonists, complex plot lines with underlying political, moral, or philosophical issues, and stories which break out of the typical tropes of their genre. She’s an active member of AAR, RWA, and SCBWI. In Childrens’ she loves YA (all subgenres) and is dying to find great Middle Grade projects (especially something akin to the recent movie SUPER 8). In adult, she’s specifically looking for romance (historical and paranormal), and fantasy (urban fantasy, science fiction, steampunk, epic fantasy). She is actively looking to build her list. Now an agent at New Leaf Literary, she represents adult and children’s fiction. After teaching high school English for several years, Suzie Townsend started publishing at FinePrint Literary Management in January 2009 and worked her way up from intern to agent.
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