The fledgling agency, Movable Type Literary Group, just scored two book deals this week. GalleyCat caught up with founder Jason Allen Ashlock for an exclusive video interview about his work.
The first deal was for screenwriter Stephen J. Rivele. This 20-year Hollywood veteran worked on scripts for the films Ali and Nixon. His work of narrative nonfiction will be published by St. Martin’s Press.
The agency also secured a deal with HarperCollins to republish the out-of-print The Making of the President series by the late political journalist Theodore White. That four-volume series followed presidential elections from 1960 until 1972, revolutionizing political reporting with novelistic flourishes.
Earlier this month, the NY Observer had a long profile of this brand-new agency.