Carolyn Savarese

Carolyn Savarese came to agenting after 18 years as a publishing executive overseeing sales, marketing, legal affairs, business development, and domestic and international licensing, working on behalf of such authors as Elizabeth Warren, Samantha Power, Henry Louis Gates, George Soros, and Rick Steves.   

She’s negotiated newsworthy deals at European book fairs, established and run a London office for the Perseus Books Group, and helped develop that company’s platform and polices in eBooks, negotiating directly with Amazon, Apple, and Google on behalf of all Perseus imprints, as well as their 400 independent distribution clients.  

Her client list includes U.S. Representative Katie Porter whose memoir, I Swear: Politics Is Messier than My Minivan, was an instant New York Times Bestseller; privacy and media law expert Amy Gajda whose Seek & Hide: The Tangled History of the Right to Privacy was a 2022 New York Times Notable Book of the Year; and MIT Atmospheric Scientist Susan Solomon whose forthcoming book, Solvable: How We Repair Our Planet, draws on her work with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an effort awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

With insider knowledge of worldwide book sales, marketing and promotion, as well as extensive experience representing distinguished individuals, Carolyn is positioned to negotiate exceptional deals for journalists, activists, politicians, scientists, historians and entrepreneurs, providing them with wise counsel and strategic advice throughout the publishing process.  She believes that while good agenting often means seeing the potential others might miss, it always means maximizing whatever potential is there.  She brings both these aspects of creativity to the job, because great publishing successes don’t just happen.  They need a knowledgeable and tenacious guide.