A Gallery of Authors
(Our favorite page on this website)

Shilletha Curtis took a short break from a 3 month hike to pose for her book cover

Kate Perry and friends

The Broken Rung authors, Kweilin Ellingrud, Lareina Yee and Maria del Mar Martinez

Kara Loewentheil

Maria Melchor on Univision

Dynamic duo: former COO of PepsiCo Grace Puma &. former president of direct-to-consumer of Nike, Christiana Smith Shi

Chai guy Kevin Wilson

Youngest TED Fellows Priya Vulchi and Winona Guo

Alok Sama with SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son

Stephen Kurkjian & the Spotlight team with their movie counterparts

Daniel Golden accepting the Pulitzer Prize

Dr. Traci Baxley

Caitlin Kiernan doing her thing (writing).

Carla Diana, the Robot Whisperer

Rev. Sharon Risher

Liz Tran

Tara Parker-Pope

Jennie Erin Smith

Michelle Kim

Dr. Dena Simmons

John Doe of X

Corey Mintz

Annabelle Gurwitch

Martha Frankel

Kyra Phillips and family

Elizabeth Cohen

Francois Nars

Leanne Jacobs

Jonathan Bloom

CNN Hero Linda Fondren on a billboard

The "heroine of heroin" Tracey Helton Mitchell

Tom DeSavia

Kyle Schwartz and her third grade students

John Hechinger

Dona Wong

Karen Wickre

Stephen Ritz

Alex Orbison, Jeff Slate and Roy Orbison, Jr.

Samantha Dunn

Jamie Rose

Lisa Woodruff

Greg Sargent

Abigail Pesta

Stephen Harvill

Bernie Roth and Stanford friends

Thanks for scrolling all the way down. Here are a few bonus candids of moi:

I organized a conference chaired by the late Peter Drucker, which required him to travel from LA to San Francisco. Sorting through my papers recently, I found a peevish note from him about his flight ("I told you to wait to book the ticket") along with his original United Airlines ticket. At the conference when asked about the biggest issue facing business, ever the contrarian, Drucker replied, "the birth rate."

With my client and dear friend Tara Parker-Pope. Okay we're not good at selfies but this photo captured a fun evening at Radio City Music Hall. In addition to seeing David Sedaris that night, the two of us over the years have geeked out at events with Stephen King, Tara Westover, JK Rowling, John Irving and Robert Caro. In a perfect world, authors would receive the same treatment as rock stars.

Editor, agent and author meet up for coffee -- I love that this photo captures something that happens everyday in publishing but also more. Yes, the industry is overwhelmingly white but it's changing.

My agent pal Regina Books and I co-chair the annual US Book Show after conceiving and organizing in 2022 a professional development conference for the book industry as a joint venture between AALA and Publishers Weekly.