March 2024 - Bill Rivers’s LAST SUMMER BOYS (Lake Union Publishing) is Amazon’s #1 best-selling historical novel.
February 2024 - PAST TENSE the first book in the Matt Moulton Series by Michael Amedeo debuts from Level Best Books.
February 2024 - WordLink author Kathleen Marple Kalb inks a 2-book deal with Turner Publishing for WRONG POISON and HOUND OF BONNESVILLES, the first installments in her Grace the Hit Mom Mystery series, with Book 1 due fall 2024
February 2024 - WordLink’s Managing Director has been invited to attend the Chesapeake Writing Workshop in Arlington, Va on March 23d.
February 2024 - WordLink author Raymond Paul Johnson’s CONSPIRACY IGNITED has been named a finalist in the Chanticleer International Book Awards (CIBA). The winner will be announced at CIBA’s April Author Conference.
February 2024 - GETTING THE GIRL: A GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO SEDUCTION, ALLUREMENT, AND BEGUILANCE BY ANDREW MUNGE, a hilarious satire spoofing men’s “dating manuals” debuts from Humorist Weekly books.
February 2024 - Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group has chosen WordLink’s Elvira Gonzalez as the keynote speaker at its Spring 2024 Librarian Preview Virtual Event.
December 2023 - WordLink is proud to announce that Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Beebe-West has signed with the agency to represent his non-fiction work entitled FERTILE CIRCUS.
November 2023 - Frank McAdams inks a deal with Blank Slate Press for CALIFORNIA RAIN, a novel based upon his UCLA Samuel Goldwyn Screenwriting Competition-winning script due in Fall 2024.
October 2023 - Retired Chief Judge of Florida’s 9th Circuit Court Judge Belvin Perry, Jr. and co-author Amy Mitchell ink a deal with Post Hill Press for the judge’s memoir THE VELVET HAMMER to debut in 2024. Judge Perry, Jr. was the presiding judge of the infamous Casey Anthony trial in 2011.
October 2023 - Ella Alexander inks a deal for her untitled debut novel with Brandon Taylor at Unnamed Press, with Chris Heiser editing due in 2025.
September 2023 - Nabila Ramdani’s FIXING FRANCE debuts with Hachette Book Group’s Public Affairs imprint.
September 2023 - Bryan E. Robinson inks a 2-book deal with Level Best Publishing for his new Einstein Steele mystery series. WAY DEAD UPON THE SUWANNEE RIVER to debut in Spring 2024 with SHE’LL BE KILLING ‘ROUND THE MOUNTAIN to follow in 2025.
June 2023 - Raymond Paul Johnson inks a deal with Blank Slate Press for his thriller CONSPIRACY IGNITED due in Summer 2024
June 2023 - Elora Dodd & CRR Hillin ink a deal with Apollo Publishers for THE ACTUALLY AUTISTIC GUIDE, an activity book designed for autistic people of all ages.
May 2023 - author Tyler Schwanke’s article 7 Criminally Under-Rated Heist Films That Deserve Another Watch is published in Crime Reads.
May 2023 - author Michael Amedeo inks a 3-book deal with Level Best Publishing for his Matt Moulton PI series - a tribute to the film noir detectives of the 40’s & 50’s. PAST TENSE, the 1st in the series is due in Spring of 2024.
May 2023 - Cait Levin inks a deal with Charlesbridge Publishers for her debut novel IMPOSTER.
March 2023 - BREAKING IN by WordLink author Tyler Schwanke was featured in Zibby Mag’s Oscars-Inspired Reading List of Hollywood Stories.
February 2023 - WordLink’s Forbes and Huffington Post contributor Dr. Bryan E. Robinson was interviewed by Voice of America on the 1st Anniversary of Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine to help individuals and families emotionally impacted by the war to cope with the ongoing conflict.
February 2023 - WordLink’s activist, Nobel Peace Prize nominee, and UN Women Goodwill Ambassador to Africa Jaha Dukureh signs a book deal with Kensington Publishing for her memoir I WILL SCREAM TO THE WORLD.
February 2023 - Brian J. Cano receives a SUNNY Award from Sunbury Press for his paranormal memoir GRAINS OF SAND.
January 2023 - Charles B. Fancher signs a book deal with Blackstone Publishing for his debut novel RED CLAY.
January 2023 -Katie Schmid receives a National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowship.
December 2022 - Asli Pelit inks a deal with the University of North Carolina Press for CUBA’S CHILDREN OF CHERNOBYL, THE STORY OF TARARA AND POST-COLD WAR MEDICAL DIPLOMACY the ordeal of children sent to Cuba in a bid to save their lives as a result of the catastrophic nuclear disaster in the Ukraine.
October 2022 - Macey Howell joins WordLink as a Literary Agent. Welcome aboard, Macey!
July 2022 - Raymond Paul Johnson’s thriller THE RAVEN SOCIETY: CONSPIRACY IGNITED has been selected as a semi-finalist in the 2022 Adventure Writers Competition. Finalists will be announced in early August for award of “The Clive”, which is named in honor of the late thriller writer Clive Cussler. THE RAVEN SOCIETY is currently on submission.
July 2022 - Airy Sindik’s GRANDMA AND COVID is awarded the Reyes-Olivas Award for Best First Book of Latino Children’s and Young Adult Literature. The bi-lingual children’s book is due out in October from Arte Publico Press.
July 2022 - Nabila Ramdani inks a deal with Perseus Books for FIXING FRANCE: AN INSIDER'S GUIDE TO A NEW REPUBLIC, due in fall 2023.
June 2022 - WordLink is proud to represent French-Algerian journalist and broadcaster Nabila Ramdani.
June 2022 - Bill Rivers’s LAST SUMMER BOYS released by Lake Union Publishing
April 2022 - Sydney Queen Detellis joins WordLink as Assistant Literary Agent. Welcome aboard, Sydney!
February 2022 - Brian J. Cano’s debut GRAINS OF SAND is the top new release in “Ghosts and Hauntings” on Amazon.
February 2022 - It’s announced that Managing Director Dean Krystek will attend KILLER NASHVILLE 2022 as an attending agent where he will conduct pitch sessions with authors and take part in conferences and panel discussions with industry colleagues.
January 2022 - Tyler Schwanke inks a deal with Blackstone Publishing for his debut BREAKING IN, set to release in spring of 2023.
January 2022 - Gabriela Gonzales has two poems, Packing (an abacedarian) and Stendhal, in Open: Journal of Arts and Letters.
September 2021 WordLink author Dr. Bryan E. Robinson co-hosted with world-renowned psychologist Dr. Joy Miller Resiliency 2021, a global Webinar themed “Empowering Voices That Build Resiliency”. Among the notable participants were Arianna Huffington, Erin Brockovich, the Honorable Pete Buttigieg, Alisyn Camerota, and Alanis Morissette.
August 2021 - WordLink is extremely honored to represent Nobel Peace Prize nominee Jaha Dukureh, Eleanor Roosevelt Val-Kill Medal winner, one of Times 100 Most Influential People, UN Women Goodwill Ambassador for Africa, and founder & executive director of Safe Hands for Girls.
August 2021 - Bill Rivers inks a deal with Amazon’s Lake Union Publishing for his YA debut novel KEEPING PETE due in Spring 2022.
August 2021 - Katie Schmid’s poetry collection NOWHERE is now available from University of New Mexico Press.
August 2021 - Robert Kerbeck is selected as a finalist for the 2021 SoCal Journalism Awards for his piece A Spotlight on California’s Courageous Firefighters in Shonda Rhimes’ magazine, Shondaland.
July 2021 - WordLink writing team of Paul Moncrieffe and Shane Mahoney ink a two-book deal with Humorist Books. Their hilarious parody GETTING THE GIRL: A GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO SEDUCTION, ALLUREMENT, AND BEGUILANCE BY ANDREW MUNGE debuts in March 2022, with a 2d Andrew Munge book to follow.
July 2021 - Elvira Gonzalez inks a six-figure pre-empt deal with Macmillan’s Roaring Brook Press for her YA memoir HURDLES IN THE DARK due in September 2022.
July 2021 - Steerforth Press moves up the spring release of Robert Kerbeck’s much-anticpated RUSE: LYING THE AMERICAN DREAM FROM HOLLYWOOD TO WALL STREET to February 2022.
June 2021 - WordLink author Christina Holbrook’s article Leaving New York was published in Potato Soup Journal.
June 2021 - WordLink author Tyler Schwanke’s short fiction Chug was published in Issue 2 of Chaotic Merge.
WordLink author Gabriela Gonzales’s poetic essay I’m Alive was published in the online literary journal Pidgeonholes.
Dünya Çocuklarına Günaydın (HELLO TO THE CHILDREN OF THE WORLD) by Esma Ertel and Mehmet Guleryuz was released by Doğan Egmont on April 23, 2021.
WordLink’s Katie Schmid has a poem included in Michigan Quarterly Review’s Spring 2021 edition dedicated to emerging voices.
A deal for international rights (Lithuania) for Silvia Foti’s THE NAZI’S GRANDDAUGHTER was brokered by WordLink’s Zeynep Sen on behalf of Helen Zimmerman.
WordLink’s Rachel DuBrueler has been interviewed on WTRF 7News.
WordLink’s Robert Kerbeck signs deal with Steerforth Press for RUSE: LYING THE AMERICAN DREAM FROM HOLLYWOOD TO WALL STREET.
WordLink’s Erik Edstrom (UN-AMERICAN: A SOLDIER’S RECKONING OF OUR LONGEST WAR - Bloomsbury, 2020) is featured in this NYT article.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has extended its option for WordLink author Joseph Eckert’s TRAVELER, which has been adapted for the screen.

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