Agent: Gregory Messina, originally from New York State, operates the Linwood Messina Literary Agency, in Paris. After graduating from Washington University, he worked at the renowned Curtis Brown agency. He later worked in California at a talent agency, film production company and Hollywood studio. Gregory has lived in Paris since 2004, specializing in selling translation and other subsidiary rights for Edition Robert Laffont and Place des Editeurs before founding his own agency.
Agent: Gaia Banks (Sheil Land Associates agency)
Gaia has worked in publishing for 19 years: in translation rights at John Murray, then joining Sheil Land as an agent in 2004. Specialising in the international publishing interests of Sheil Land Associates's extensive and varied list of authors, and also act as a primary agent. Gaia takes on one or two new writers a year as a primary agent, and when doing so look for projects with wide international appeal.
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