“The former editor at Penguin Random House is consolidating her conversion to a literary agent by looking to promote unpublished and little known authors.

Mónica Carmona, the former editor at Penguin Random House, who left last November after working for the group for 16 years, is reinventing herself as a literary agent without completely giving up on editorial work. “These days everyone seems desperate to steal authors from publishers and agencies, but that’s the wrong way to go because the big surprises have come from entirely unknown authors, like Dolores Redondo,” says the new agent.

In fact, her Barcelona-based agency has effectively been functioning since February 2016 when she signed a contract for the new comic by Miguel Brieva La gran aventura humana (The Great Human Adventure), which will be published by Reservoir Books in Spring 2017. It also emerged that the transfer to Anagrama (with four titles unpublished in Spain) of another heavyweight in the comic book world, the Argentine artist Liniers, was her handiwork. Now Carmona is driving her agency on with the announcement that she is accepting manuscripts by new and little known authors.

In addition to the authors mentioned above, Carmona’s client list also includes celebrities from the world of pop music such as Jarvis Cocker, the frontman of the British band Pulp. However it’s not stardust she’s after but new voices of quality. One of them is the journalist Silvia Nanclares, whose first novel she has already edited. She also edited the first non-fiction book by the painter Jorge Diezma.”

Translation by The Spanish Bookstage 

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