Carolyn Savarese is committed to representing books that matter by authors who want to make a difference.  Her client list includes prominent neuroscientists, legal scholars, cultural psychologists, conservation biologists, health and wellness experts, business leaders, and tomorrow builders. They range from Angus Fletcher, the Shakespeare scholar and expert on “story thinking” who designed the U.S. Army Special Forces Primal Intelligence training program, to Susan Solomon, the MIT atmospheric scientist who led the team that won the 2007 Nobel Peace prize.  Perhaps her client with the most name-recognition is former Congresswoman Katie Porter, whose populist account of being a single mom in a dysfunctional Washington, I Swear, became an instant New York Times bestseller. 

Carolyn’s approach to agenting is informed by her two-decades experience as a publishing executive overseeing sales, marketing, legal affairs, business development, and the licensing of rights for the likes of Elizabeth Warren, Samantha Power, Henry Louis Gates, George Soros, and Rick Steves.  Her deep understanding of the book business, in the U.S. and abroad, allows her to be not just a guide and dealmaker, but a strategic partner in building a writing career.  She has a passion for shaping ideas into winning proposals, matching a writer with the ideal editor, negotiating exceptional terms, and for being a fierce advocate for her clients’ books during every step of the publishing process, including platform building and branding.

A native New Yorker, she now lives in a 17th-century farmhouse near the Great Marsh north of Boston, with her husband, writer and editor William Patrick, and their very difficult dachshund Giotto.