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Kevan Lyon
With over 20 years in the publishing business, including 5 years as a Literary Agent with the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency and 17+ years on the wholesale, retail and distribution side of the business, Kevan Lyon brings an informed and unique perspective to her work with clients. Her background on the buying and retail side of publishing affords her helpful insight into what types of books will sell and how to market them. Kevan holds an MBA from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA.
Kevan handles women's fiction, with an emphasis on commercial women's fiction, young adult fiction and all genres of romance. Her particular interest is historical fiction of all types. She looks for stories that draw the reader in and loves a sweeping, complex story with strong female characters. Her authors in women's fiction span a broad range of genres from literary and commercial books to all genres of romance including historical, contemporary, suspense and paranormal. She loves to be surprised by a unique plot or characters and is always looking for a new, fresh voice or approach. A few of Kevan's recent and soon to be published books include Whisper of Warning, by Laura Griffin (Pocket Books); Muchacho by LouAnne Johnson (Knopf); Her Ladyship's Companion by Evangeline Collins (Berkley); Haunting Jordan, by PJ Alderman (Bantam); Knight of Desire and Knight of Pleasure by Margaret Mallory (Grand Central Publishing).
She is also interested in non-fiction, representing authors in the areas of current events, narrative, memoir, environment, parenting and pets/animals. With non-fiction projects she looks for topics that she is passionate about or that speak to issues of particular concern to women and families. Some of Kevan's clients' works coming in 2009 include When I Married My Mother by Jo Maeder (Da Capo Press); Rescue Warriors, by David Helvarg (Thomas Dunne); and Fierce Heart, The Story of Makaha and The Soul of Hawaiian Surfing, by Stuart Coleman (St. Martins Press).
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