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 The Founder of LaunchBooks Literary Agency, David Fugate, has successfully represented more than 800 books to over 40 different publishers and has generated more than $11 Million for authors. He represents authors such as Jon Jeter, the former Washington Post Bureau Chief for both South America and South Africa, and two time Pulitzer Prize finalist; Jonathan Watts, the China correspondent for the UK Guardian; Kevin Mitnick, the world's most famous hacker and author of The Art of Deception; Louis Foreman, Creator and Executive Producer of the PBS show Everyday Edisons, which begins airing April 19th, 2007; Wagner James Au, author of the forthcoming book Notes from the New World (HarperCollins) and who has written for Wired and Slate; Jonathan Baskin, winner of the PR industry's highest award - the Silver Anvil - for the work he led for the Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island Project and author of the forthcoming Branding Only Works on Cattle (Warner Books); Daniel Terdiman of CNET News.com; Dean Takahashi of The San Jose Mercury News and many others. In the past David has represented a wide range of trade non-fiction titles, having worked with authors such as Charles H. Ferguson, author of High Stakes, No Prisoners (Random House); Paul Freiberger & Michael Swaine, Fire in the Valley (McGraw-Hill Business), which was made into the TNT movie, "Pirates of Silicon Valley"; Gil Amelio, former CEO of Apple Computer, On the Firing Line (HarperBusiness); Brian H. Murray, Defending the Brand (Amacom); and Jill Gilbert, The Entrepreneur's Guide to Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks, Trade Secrets, & Licensing (The Berkeley Publishing Group), Sarbanes-Oxley for Dummies, and many others. David has also represented a number of bestselling authors in the field of technology including Molly Holzschlag, The Zen of CSS Design; Andy Clarke, Transcending CSS; Stephanie Sullivan and Greg Rewis, Senior Evangelist for Web Tools at Adobe on their forthcoming book, Mastering CSS with Dreamweaver, Andy Budd, Michael Morrison on the forthcoming Head First Javascript, Eric Meyer, Eric Meyer on CSS; Danny Goodman, DHTML: The Definitive Reference, and The JavaScript Bible; Robert Reinhardt, The Flash Bible; Colin Moock, ActionScript: The Definitive Guide; Jim Boyce, Outlook Inside Out; J.D. Frazer, User Friendly, the Comic Strip, and many others.David got his start in publishing more than 12 years ago working as Manager of Submissions for the Margret McBride Literary Agency, which represented bestselling authors such as Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson, authors of The One Minute Manager, and Victor Villaseņor, author of Rain of Gold. David can be reached at: |
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