AvantGuild: Boston’s “High Priestess” of Book Deals

By Neal 

helen-rees-headshot.jpgIn the latest installment of mediabistro.com’s “Pitch an Agent,” M. David Hornbuckle offers a quick overview of the Helen Rees Literary Agency, “the first major literary agency in Boston.” Rees was also the subject of a Boston Globe profile in 2006, where bestselling client Alan Dershowitz told the reporter “the difference between Helen Rees and a Rottweiler is that eventually a Rottweiler will let go.” Other big clients include Jack and Suzy Welch, Frank Luntz, and John Kerry.

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(photo: Boston Globe)