Judith Ramsey Ehrlich, Principal
A former award-winning journalist, Judith is the co-author of The New Crowd: The Changing of the Jewish Guard on Wall Street (Little, Brown, 1989). She shifted gears in l998 and worked as a senior associate of the Linda Chester Agency for five years before launching her own agency in 2002. Judith is a member of the Author’s Guild and the American Society of Journalists and Authors. She was formerly on the Council of Conservators of the New York Public Library and served on the board of directors of The Shakespeare Society. For many years she was on the advisory board of The Partisan Review.

Judith has sold a wide range of nonfiction and fiction and looks for that special quality that makes a book compelling. Among her strongest interests are narrative nonfiction that combines fascinating original material with superb writing, topical business books by industry leaders, and prescriptive women’s books with a strong platform. Prescriptive books should offer fresh information and advice, and most authors must have ongoing experience with national workshops and lectures or strong newspaper, radio or TV presence, depending on the work. In fiction, she looks for novels that have a strong opportunity for print review or appeal to book club readers. She is drawn to stories that pull you in and won’t let you go. In upmarket, literary, and quality commercial fiction, she looks for novels that have sympathetic characters, original plots with surprising twists, and strong descriptive writing.

Judith's fiction authors include Yona Zeldis McDonough (Breaking the Bank), Hana Samek Norton (The Sixth Surrender), and Laura Pedersen (Beginner’s Luck; Last Call). Her nonfiction authors include Sam Weller (The Bradbury Chronicles: The Authorized Biography of Sam Weller), Professor Jeffrey H. Jackson (Paris Under Water: How the City of Light Survived the Great Flood of 1910), ad executive and management consultant Steve McKee (When Growth Stalls: How It Happens, Why You're Stuck & What to Do About It), former CEO of Kroll Michael Cherkasky (Forewarned: Why the Government Is Failing to Protect Us—And What Can We Do to Protect Ourselves), and television and stage director Michael Lindsay-Hogg, whose long-awaited memoir will be published by Knopf.

jehrlich@judithehrlichliterary.com

Emmanuelle Alspaugh, Literary Agent
Emmanuelle Alspaugh joined the agency in August 2008. Previously she was an agent at Wendy Sherman Associates and The Creative Culture, and an editor at Fodor's, the travel division of Random House. She enjoys developing long-term relationships with her clients, helping them to build their literary careers and promote their work. She also offers authors the full breadth of her editorial experience, guiding them in developing their proposals and manuscripts.

Emmanuelle represents romance in most subgenres, women’s fiction, historical fiction, and young adult fiction. At the moment she is particularly looking for paranormal and historical romance, urban fantasy, and "book club" women's fiction. Her pet peeve in fiction is the "typical" detective story with a dead body in the first chapter, so please no cozy mysteries, FBI/CIA agents, or whodunits. She would, however, be up for a thriller with a female protagonist. She also represents memoir and select narrative nonfiction and how-to titles.

In fiction, she represents Danielle Younge-Ullman (Falling Under), Alissa Johnson (As Luck Would Have It), Jenny Brown (Lord Lightning), Marcella Burnard (Enemy Within), Laurie London (Bonded by Blood), Christina Phillips (His Forbidden Princess), and Jordan LaRousse and Samantha Sade (Oysters and Chocolate). Her nonfiction authors include food writer and memoirist Adrienne Kane (Cooking and Screaming), family therapist Catherine McCall (When the Piano Stops), and Marie Claire editor Sarah Wexler (Living Large).

ealspaugh@judithehrlichliterary.com

Sophia Seidner, Literary Agent
Sophia Seidner's first foray into book publishing was as an intern in the editorial office of the Nationally Gallery of Art.  She then joined Callaway Editions, a packager of high-end illustrated books where she assisted with the sales and marketing of books by Madonna, Albert Watson, Kevyn Aucoin, David LaChapelle, David Kirk and Irving Penn among others.  Following this Sophia worked in the literary division of International Management Group, starting as an assistant to the literary agent Julian Bach, working with clients such as Pat Conroy and Jan Morris.  After Julian Bach’s retirement, Sophia continued as an assistant agent, and contracts and subsidiary rights manager, working on behalf of clients such as Jack Welch, Ken Blanchard, Marshall Goldsmith, Peter Drucker, Bill O’Reilly, Pearl Jam, Heidi Klum, Tyra Banks, Elvis Costello, Daniel Boulud, Tiger Woods, Nadia Comanici, Apolo Ono, Derek Jeter, Eli and Peyton Manning, Martina Navritilova and John McEnroe to name a few. Next Sophia joined John Wiley & Sons, Inc. as an international rights manager for three years. At Wiley, she focused on selling translation rights for Wiley's extensive list of business, technology and culinary titles.

Sophia is looking for strong literary fiction and nonfiction including self-help, narrative nonfiction, memoir, and biography.  Areas of special interest include medical and health-related topics, science (popular, political and social), animal welfare, current events, politics, law, history, ethics, parody and humor, sports, art and business self-help.

sseidner@judithehrlichliterary.com

Subagent

Whitney Lee, The Fielding Agency
The Fielding Agency handles foreign rights for JELM.

wlee@fieldingagency.com