The Slate Roof Agency 
Literary Agents and Author Representatives
Agency Background
The Slate Roof Agency is the fastest-growing fiction representing literary agency in the Philadelphia area. Slate Roof was formally established as an author agency in 1997 by Janet A. Spaulding. Along with her many writing, editing, and promotional accomplishments, Janet has a Rosemont College Master's Degree in Publishing, and a Fine Arts Degree in English from La Salle University.
Literary Agents
Janet A. Spaulding
Janet's career took left turn toward agency one rainy
day in May of 1997 while sitting at a publishing meeting. She suddenly realized her drive,
background and charisma had been immediately effective in making a difficult connection
between publisher and an already published writer—a writer who needed fair and
aggressive representation.
Janet now represents fiction writers in almost all genres.
Among her accomplishments, she's interned at John
Benjamin's North America Company in their academic book publishing and rare book
distribution division. She's traveled on 5 of the seven continents; however, Australia and
Antarctica will have to wait. Previously, Janet has lived in numerous countries on the
Pacific Rim. i.e. The Philippines, Japan, and Korea. Janet has written, edited, and
published work for the Department of Defense, and she's held a DOD security clearance.
The Slate Roof Agency now represents six authors.
Janet's e-mail address: jstewart@icdc.com
Marc D. Weston
Marc is a retired rowing coach, volunteer
firefighter, scuba diver, and mechanical designer. He likes the water. He's a graduate of
LaSalle College and is attending Drexel University, and represents our medical thrillers,
horror and sci-fi genre, and childrens' books. He reads extensively and has a real knack
for spotting a good read, or pulling a better book out of a borderline author. Slate Roof
encourages his knack and capitalizes on an author's strengths.
Just so you have an understanding for Marc's
reading preferences, we've listed a number of his prefered authors: John J. Nance, Dean
Koontz, John Saul, Tom Clancy, Robin Cook, Patrick Lynch, Peter Straub, and Michael
Crichton. He likes to read horror/mystery and Sci-Fi.
Marc is always looking forward to publishing his new
Horror authors with publishing houses including, but not limited to, Berkley - NY, Bantam
Ballantine Books - NY, and Warner and Signet.
Asked recently, "What can you do for the
writer-wannabe-author?"; Marc answered, "I believe I encourage and guide writers
to produce the best book they've ever written...until the next one that is."
As for YA writers, Marc is willing and able to
represent both children's' books and YA books. Marc agrees with recent Romance Writers of
America comments about the limited selection in this genre, and he believes he can help
publish a greater number of interesting books focused on YA. "A great benefit to our
reading youth, and to society."
Marc's
e-mail address: westonmd@mail.com
Slate Roof is presently accepting clients. Updated 4/00