Martin Literary Management

Sharlene Martin began working in television in 1993 as a partner in Martin/ Walker-Lampley Productions, a company formed with Bree Walker, a CBS prominent television news anchor in New York and Los Angeles. Sharlene also spent time as a reality television developer for Media Savvy, and an Associate Casting Director with Joy Todd. Her most challenging casting project for film was the movie "Gods and Generals," with 156 speaking roles.

In 2003, Sharlene began devoting herself full time to her passion for great stories and formed Martin Literary Management. Her agency has experienced extraordinary success in sales and alliances; a quick visit to the pages of the company website verifies the well-rounded nature of her acquisitions as well as the extensive sales success that her clients' books have enjoyed.

In the nine years since that time, her remarkable rise in the publishing industry is demonstrated by a rapidly growing list of non-fiction sales to such renowned major publishers as Ballantine, Crown, Regnery, Rodale, Harper Collins, St. Martin's Press, Penguin Putnam, Sterling Publishing, Grand Central, Simon and Schuster, as well as a host of boutique publishers for specialized genre books.

She has represented several New York Times bestselling nonfiction books including crime journalist Jane Velez-Mitchell's IWant, Suzanne Hansen’s You’ll Never Nanny in this Town Again, MaryJo Buttafuocco's Getting It Through My Thick Skull, The Goldman Family’s If I Did It based on the OJ Simpson murder of Ron Goldman and Nicole Simpson. Additionally, she represented true crime reporter Diane Dimond’s investigative book into the “White House Gatecrashers” entitled Cirque Du Salahi and CBS Affiliate WRAL’s true crime reporter, Amanda Lamb, in her past four true crime books at Penguin Putnam.

Many of her authors have had their books boosted as serial reprints in publications as prestigious as Readers' Digest, People Magazine, and the London Times and in the recent past, five of her clients have appeared on Oprah. Other client appearances include The Today Show, The View, Fox and Friends, Good Morning America, The Early Show, 20/20, 48 Hours, Discovery Channel, TruTV, Inside Edition, The 700 Club, ET, The Insider, ABC Nightline, CNN and HLN News and Fox News, to name just a few.

Her successes have encouraged others to work with her, and she is actively doing business with a host of film and TV companies for the adaptation of her clients' books into screenplay form. Hallmark Hall of Fame's acclaimed TV movie in December, 2008 was based on "Front of the Class," one of the very first book sales made by MLM. She is the Executive Producer of Lifetime’s movie, The Pregnancy Project and is Creator/Producer of DEADLY SINS for Discovery ID in partnership with Dick Clark Productions. She has a multitude of scripted and unscripted projects in development with the top production companies and is often sought out for original source material for feature films.

Publishers, editors and writers who deal with her consistently express their joy in working with someone who is such an avid fan of good writing and an enthusiastic guardian and representative of her clients' work. She employs this personal touch to all of her business relationships and credits it with her proven record of success.

She is the co-author with Anthony Flacco of Publish Your Nonfiction Book: Strategies for Learning the Industry, Selling Your Book, and Building a Successful Career (Writer's Digest Books, Nov. 2009). In it, she shares many of the secrets of success that Sharlene uses to counsel her own clients on their road to authorship.

Sharlene divides her time between Southern California and Seattle, Washington with her mate of 18 years, Anthony Flacco, an acclaimed author of true crime, historical crime, and crime novels.

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