Lucinda Halpern

About the Agent

With twenty years of experience in corporate and agency publishing, Lucinda serves both sides of the literary and business worlds. An editorially invested partner with a specialty in book marketing strategy, she has an “all in” dedication and work ethic when it comes to representing authors, and a track record of procuring top media placements, lecture engagements, and tv/film deals for her clients. Lucinda began her publishing career in the Publicity Division of HarperCollins, assisting on campaigns for New York Times bestselling authors like Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt (Freakonomics). She later joined Scholastic’s Marketing Partnerships Division, developing custom publishing programs to a variety of Fortune 500 companies and global nonprofits. Her literary representation career at Fletcher & Company (now United Talent), where she also acted as a marketing consultant to Gretchen Rubin of The Happiness Project. Today, she represents New York Times, Wall Street Journal and internationally bestselling authors writing in the categories of business, health, lifestyle, popular science, narrative nonfiction, memoir, and upmarket fiction, including New York Times bestselling authors Dan Martell (Buy Back Your Time), novelist Jayne Allen (Black Girls Must Die Exhausted) Susan Peirce Thompson (Bright Line Eating), Jake Wood (Once a Warrior), Cait Flanders (The Year of Less), Paul Jarvis (Company of One), and as a collaborator, the bestselling author of The Nanny Diaries, Nicola Kraus. Client Chris Bailey (The Productivity Project; Hyperfocus) has said, “Never mind my books, I’d trust Lucinda, and the entire team at Lucinda Literary, with my life. Lucinda is the most resourceful person I’ve ever worked with—and she’s given me open, honest, and valuable feedback through each stage of the publishing process.”

Represented authors

• Jayne Allen
• Chris Bailey
• Michelle Dowd
• Cait Flanders
• Nicola Kraus
• Dan Martell
• Susan Peirce Thompson