About
Fresh Books literary agent and founder Matt Wagner represents new and established writers of non-fiction.
Recently published and/or sold projects include:
The Myth of Multitasking: How “Doing it All” Gets Nothing Done (Jossey-Bass), by Dave Crenshaw
Vintage Games: An Insider Look at the History of Grand Theft Auto, Super Mario, and the Most Influential Games of All Time (Focal), by Bill Loguidice and Matt Barton
The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web (O’Reilly), by Tamar Weinberg
Wilderness Survival for Dummies (Wiley), by John Haslett and Cameron Smith
The Zombie Combat Manual: A Guide to Fighting the Living Dead (Berkley), by Roger Ma
Creative Close-Ups: Digital Photography Tips and Techniques (Wiley), by Harold Davis
Molecular and Cellular Biology for Dummies (Wiley), by Rene Fester Kratz
The Constant Contact Guide to Email Marketing (Wiley), by Eric Groves
The Photoshop Darkroom: Creative Digital Post-Processing (Focal), by Harold Davis
About Matt Wagner
I love working with fun non-fiction and reference. I work personally with my clients toward their long-term goals. I also represent clients for corporate writing gigs, white papers, online training gigs, and dvds.
I try to keep up to date with client news and links to news of note from the publishing industry at large. For regular updates, or to see what catches my eye, you can visit the Fresh Books Blog, or follow me on Twitter. If you’d like to send me a query, please check out my submissions page.
Prior to founding Fresh Books, I was a literary agent with Waterside Productions, Inc., where I sold well in excess of 1000 books to over 30 publishers, generating more than 25 million dollars in author revenue. I represented such bestselling technical and computer book authors as Andy Rathbone, Windows for Dummies; Dan Gookin, PC’s for Dummies; and Gordon McComb, Robot Builder’s Bonanza.
On the trade and reference side I represented such authors as: Phil Reed and Dr. Tom Amberry, Free Throw (HarperCollins); Sue Spector and Stanford Wong, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Gambling Like A Pro (Alpha); Allen Funt, Candidly Allen Funt (Barricade), and many others.
Before joining Waterside, I worked as a coffee jerk, cab driver, and book clerk and buyer at the famed Boulder Bookstore in Boulder, Colorado. I hold a B.A. in Creative Writing and Literature from U.C. Santa Cruz, where I spent a year in the stacks at McHenry Library supposedly “shelving” books. I also studied playwriting and dramaturgy in the Professional Theatre Training Program at U.C. San Diego.