About Us
Redwood Agency was formed to provide development expertise
and representation to authors and organizations for high-quality, nonfiction
works for the general consumer market. See Mission
Contact Information:
Catherine Fowler, Founder
Redwood Agency
Redwood Agency is located just north of the
Email: info@redwoodagency.com
www.redwoodagency.com
Phone: 415-381-2269 x2
Fax: 415-381-2719
(Please do not mail or fax Proposals unless requested. It is okay to mail or fax Quick Queries. NO Fiction Please. Please do not send packages that require signature for delivery.)
For information about our agreement click here: Agency Agreement
Founder Bio
Catherine Fowler has more
than 20 years of experience in book and Internet publishing having worked for
such prestigious companies as Random House, Simon & Schuster, Doubleday,
Excite and WebMD. With the inception of
Redwood Agency, Fowler is focusing on the core of her expertise: the development of informative and fun
products, working with talented writers and editors, and negotiating
contracts.
Redwood Agency’s mission
is to develop and represent innovative, high-quality nonfiction works for the
general consumer market. Representing
series of titles as well as single works, Redwood will consider many marketable
categories including: health, self-help, popular culture, cooking, gardening,
parenting, relationships, travel, home care and design, general reference,
humor, photography and cultural technology.
Catherine Fowler spent 14
years working for top New York Publishing houses including Doubleday, Simon
& Schuster and Random House. At
Doubleday she worked first in the editorial department and then in subsidiary
rights where she sold and negotiated right deals for the entire Doubleday list
including works by: Isaac Asimov, Bill Cosby, O. Henry, Barbara Taylor
Bradford, and Stephen King.
In 1986 she joined the
then newly formed Prentice Hall trade division where she built a new department
and managed all the rights sales to their prestigious non-fiction lines and
titles including: Webster’s New World
Dictionaries, The New York Public Library Desk Reference series, Frommer’s
travel, Betty Crocker cookbooks, Brady Computer Books. With Brady Computer
books her department increased the book club and foreign sales tenfold and
certain titles were translated into more than 15 languages. It was at Prentice
Hall that she formed the first department at a major book company devoted to
pioneering electronic publishing opportunities for traditional publishers with
software and online companies. She forged groundbreaking alliances and
agreements with the early leaders of the online and CD-ROM business including
Sony, Prodigy, Worldview (a.k.a. Travelocity), and The Software Toolworks
(a.k.a. Headlands Media).
At Random House, Fowler
took on the dual role of associate publisher of the Reference and Electronic
Publishing division and for electronic projects company wide. She managed the
editorial and production team for Random House dictionaries, encyclopedias and
other general reference works and published the first electronic versions of
many of those works. She also published
the first volume of the Dictionary of
American Slang, The Word Menu, and
The
After relocating to
Writers Conferences
& Events
Book Passage
Food Writing Conference, February 2005
Book Passage Travel Writers and Photographers Conference,
The Surrey International Writers' Conference,
The Writers
Institute,
We will be
participating in these upcoming events:
Book Expo
To
read more about Redwood Agency Mission and Policies click here.
Copyright
c 2005 Redwood Agency email: info@redwoodagency.com