Taryn Fagerness Agency, LLC specializes in representing foreign rights, film rights, and other subsidiary rights on behalf of North American literary agents and publishers. The Agency also represents a select number of authors domestically.
Before opening her own agency in March 2009, Taryn Fagerness spent five years as the Subsidiary Rights 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 Lisa See, Amy Tan, Irvin Yalom, Keith and Brooke Desserich, Cayla Kluver, Chloe Palov, Matthew Dicks, Robin Brande 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, and film industry professionals, and she handles all aspects of selling 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, April 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.
Meet intern Taryn:
Taryn McCallan (yes, another Taryn) is a senior at the University of Denver where she will complete a B.A. in English this Fall. She was inspired to explore the publishing industry after taking an Introduction to Publishing course led by Joyce Meskis, director of the Publishing Institute at the University of Denver. The course hosted successful and knowledgeable guest lecturers who shared their expertise with the class, covering all topics from copy editing, to economics, to marketing. Taryn loves all books but has a special passion for children’s literature, especially young adult fiction and fantasy. She also enjoys a wide variety of adult fiction, especially Audrey Niffenegger, Octavia Butler, and Franz Kafka, science fiction, environmental writing, and biographies with humanitarian themes.
