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Doris S. Michaels Literary Agency, Inc. https://dsmagency.com Tue, 13 Jan 2015 22:06:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Publisher’s Lunch https://dsmagency.com/?p=2227 https://dsmagency.com/?p=2227#comments Tue, 11 Nov 2014 20:59:02 +0000 http://dsmagency.com/?p=2227

 

Sheree Bykofsky Associates has taken over the list of DSM Agency, as Doris Michaels “decided to make a transition in her life, which meant finding a new home for her clients.” Colleagues for a long time, they report: “Sheree and Doris realized that they ran their agencies in much the same way and Doris decided to look no further in her search for the perfect home for her list. It has been an extremely smooth transition, and they both feel like this was meant to be.”

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DSM Agency 20th Anniversary Announcement https://dsmagency.com/?p=2138 https://dsmagency.com/?p=2138#comments Tue, 28 Oct 2014 19:07:30 +0000 http://dsmagency.com/?p=2138 Sheree Bykofsky Associates, Inc. Sheree will be taking over our list of DSM Agency titles, effective immediately. Thank you all for your business over the past 20+ years. Sheree Bykofsky Associates, Inc. (SBA Agency) is a member of the Association of Author's Representatives (AAR) and will continue to work with all of you to handle the current -- and hopefully future -- intellectual properties in the same professional manner that you have experienced with the DSM Agency. I first met Sheree 20 years ago as I was starting my company and she was kind enough to be my mentor. So now we have come full circle and I'm extremely proud to leave you all in good hands. Sheree Bykofsky Associates, Inc. 4326 Harbor Beach Blvd. PO Box 706CIG COVER Brigantine, NJ 08203 shereebee@aol.com www.shereebee.com Sheree Bykofsky incorporated Sheree Bykofsky Associates, Inc. in 1991 and represents over 1000 authors in all areas of fiction and non-fiction. Sheree is also the author of over 30 books, most notably: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Published, 5th Edition, which is certainly NOT for idiots! Sheree and I are thrilled to be moving forward in this new direction and are optimistic about the future of publishing. Warmly, Doris]]> We are celebrating the 20th anniversary of my DSM Agency on November 3rd, 2014, with a big and exciting change. It is with great pleasure that I introduce you to Sheree Bykofsky Associates, Inc.
Sheree will be taking over our list of DSM Agency titles, effective immediately.

Thank you all for your business over the past 20+ years. Sheree Bykofsky Associates, Inc. (SBA Agency) is a member of the Association of Author’s Representatives (AAR) and will continue to work with all of you to handle the current — and hopefully future — intellectual properties in the same professional manner that you have experienced with the DSM Agency.

I first met Sheree 20 years ago as I was starting my company and she was kind enough to be my mentor. So now we have come full circle and I’m extremely proud to leave you all in good hands.

Sheree Bykofsky Associates, Inc.
4326 Harbor Beach Blvd.
PO Box 706CIG COVER
Brigantine, NJ 08203
shereebee@aol.com

www.shereebee.com

Sheree Bykofsky incorporated Sheree Bykofsky Associates, Inc. in 1991 and represents over 1000 authors in all areas of fiction and non-fiction. Sheree is also the author of over 30 books, most notably:

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Getting Published, 5th Edition, which is certainly NOT for idiots!

Sheree and I are thrilled to be moving forward in this new direction and are optimistic about the future of publishing.

Warmly,
Doris

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Agency News https://dsmagency.com/?p=2110 https://dsmagency.com/?p=2110#comments Wed, 06 Nov 2013 19:12:07 +0000 http://dsmagency.com/?p=2110 http://adventuremagazine.co.nz/tribute-to-marty-and-denali-schmidt/. All the best, Doris]]> DSM Agency is currently not taking on new projects. After 20 years in business, with 90 clients, about 600 deals made (over 100 domestic, 450 translations, 50 subsidiary rights), and 20 interns, I have decided to concentrate on the business we currently have and take a break from adding new clients.  The industry is changing rapidly and I need time to rethink the literary agency business model.  Our family also continues to mourn the loss of my dear brother and his son: http://adventuremagazine.co.nz/tribute-to-marty-and-denali-schmidt/.

All the best,
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In Tribute to Marty & Denali Schmidt https://dsmagency.com/?p=1895 https://dsmagency.com/?p=1895#comments Sun, 20 Oct 2013 21:35:55 +0000 http://dsmagency.com/?p=1895 martydenali

 Marty Schmidt's Facebook page

Alaskan Adventures, Marty and Denali Schmidt

There have been and will be a number of memorial gatherings including the one described below on August 11th in Bear Valley and the one in the home town of Doris in California in October and the one later this year in New Zealand.]]>
DSM Agency is mourning the tragic loss of world-class climber Marty Schmidt  and his son Denali Schmidt (Doris’s beloved brother and nephew) in an avalanche on the mountain K2. Our hearts go out to their family, friends, and loved ones. We wish them much love and strength during this difficult time.

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 Marty Schmidt’s Facebook page

Alaskan Adventures, Marty and Denali Schmidt

There have been and will be a number of memorial gatherings including the one described below on August 11th in Bear Valley and the one in the home town of Doris in California in October and the one later this year in New Zealand.

Dear family and friends,

It is with deep sadness that I write to inform you of the passing of Denali and Marty on K2. Though considered by the climbing community to be some of the world’s most respected mountaineers, the mountain’s powerful conditions do not discriminate. As Marty would say, “The mountain chooses your path.” Though Marty described K2 as magical and majestic, the mountain decided to make it their final resting place as they were taken by an avalanche while sleeping together in their tent at camp 3 during the night of July 26.  Marty could not help but express his pride in his son as Denali led the way on their climb with skill beyond his age. Denali was so happy to be by his side, sharing their passion for climbing together as a father-son team.  Every time Denali called he was overflowing with the beauty he had experienced there.

A memorial service celebrating their lives will be held at Bear Valley Lodge on Sunday August 11th at 2 p.m. All are welcome. Food will be provided and lodging is available at the Bear Valley Lodge 209 753 2327 and the Bear Valley Real Estate 209 753 2334 will have houses and condos available. There will also be lots of room with friends and to camp. Denali loved the color blue, please wear some for him, and red for Marty as well.

Denali’s family is asking for everyone who would like to, to contribute a story, memory, or thought about one or both of them – maybe an an experience you had, a way they have affected your life, a funny (or serious) story, or anything you would like to eternalize in their memory. Photos, links, and videos are also welcome. What is contributed by Friday, August 9th will be on display at the service. A book will also be available for your handwritten stories and messages. Everything will be immortalized in a collection that will be made available to Denali and Marty’s family, friends and anyone interested in celebrating and remembering their special lives. Please email all contributions to Larisa at this email that has been set up: denalimarty@gmail.com. Larisa and friends will also be creating a slideshow for both Marty and Denali so please also send any photos you would like to be included.

No one was more passionate about life than Denali and Marty. As Sarah Wilson, a fellow adventurer, mentions in her tribute to them, “this tragedy reminds us that we only have today to live and love, to inspire others and to have the adventure of our lives – as both Marty and his son Denali did.” Denali and Marty would have wanted us to channel our heartache into passion for life and love for each other. The world has lost two special souls whose light must be carried on through us all.

Love,
Larisa (Denali’s honey) family and friends

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Drinking Water https://dsmagency.com/?p=2102 https://dsmagency.com/?p=2102#comments Mon, 07 Oct 2013 14:19:41 +0000 http://dsmagency.com/?p=2102 Four Books Explore Humans’ Relationship With Water By  Published: October 7, 2013 Earth, “the blue planet,” has a lot of water. Most of the planet’s surface is covered with it. But less than 5 percent of that water is fresh, and much of that is locked up in ice sheets or inconveniently far underground. And it is not always most abundant where it is most needed.

As a result, we are drawing on underground aquifers faster than they can recharge. And the water we have is often polluted by sewage, industrial waste, parasites and other contaminants that can make “natural” water unsafe to drink.

In short, as James Salzman puts it in “Drinking Water,” one of four new books that dive into our species’ relationship with water, clean supplies have always been the exception, not the norm. As recently as 1900, he writes, 1 in 70 Americans died of a waterborne disease before age 70.

Though he ranges widely, Mr. Salzman, who teaches law and environmental studies at Duke, focuses on what one might call social justice. Access to water may be viscerally regarded as a “right,” but he points out that the best way to ensure a reliable supply of pure water, especially in poor regions, is often to privatize it.

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Four Books Explore Humans’ Relationship With Water

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Published: October 7, 2013

Earth, “the blue planet,” has a lot of water. Most of the planet’s surface is covered with it. But less than 5 percent of that water is fresh, and much of that is locked up in ice sheets or inconveniently far underground. And it is not always most abundant where it is most needed.

As a result, we are drawing on underground aquifers faster than they can recharge. And the water we have is often polluted by sewage, industrial waste, parasites and other contaminants that can make “natural” water unsafe to drink.

In short, as James Salzman puts it in “Drinking Water,” one of four new books that dive into our species’ relationship with water, clean supplies have always been the exception, not the norm. As recently as 1900, he writes, 1 in 70 Americans died of a waterborne disease before age 70.

Though he ranges widely, Mr. Salzman, who teaches law and environmental studies at Duke, focuses on what one might call social justice. Access to water may be viscerally regarded as a “right,” but he points out that the best way to ensure a reliable supply of pure water, especially in poor regions, is often to privatize it.

Water management has been critical to economic, social and cultural development for thousands of years, Steven Mithen tells us in “Thirst.” An archaeologist at the University of Reading in England, Dr. Mithen covers a vast portion of the ancient world: water storage in ancient Sumeria, the terra cotta pipes of classical Athens and the aqueducts of Rome, the “hydraulic city” of Angkor Wat in Cambodia, the water-allocation policies of the Maya.

His tone is academic and at times highly technical, but he builds to a striking conclusion. Though we may think that the rise of complex social and economic networks enabled ancient cultures to manage their water, the reverse may well be true: only when a society had reliable access to water could it turn itself into an economic or cultural power.

If some ancient empires acquired their water by conquest, so, in its way, did a much later empire: New York City. In “Empire of Water,” David Soll describes how the city transformed its notoriously unsanitary water system in the early 20th century by buying up watersheds in the Catskill Mountains and building a large network of reservoirs, pipes, tanks, sampling stations and other devices that delivers a billion gallons a day of excellent water into the city’s homes and businesses.

For Dr. Soll, a historian who focuses on water issues in his work at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, this past is fraught with political deal making, hubris, unintended consequences and government overreach. But in the end, “the willingness of Catskill residents and city officials to embark on the world’s most expensive and ambitious watershed management program after almost a century of bitter conflict” offers hope that the goals of sensible water management and environmental progress “are not as elusive as they may seem.” As for waste, a first step in avoiding it is to recognize how much water we use each day, counting not just water for flushing, bathing, washing and watering the lawn, but also the water use embedded in the food we eat, the products we buy and the electricity that powers our lives.

How much is that? A lot, according to Wendy J. Pabich’s “Taking On Water.”

Dr. Pabich, an environmental scientist and water activist who lives in a dry region of Idaho, says the average American uses 100 times as much water as, say, the typical Mozambican — a level of waste brought home to her when she realized she and her husband were using thousands of gallons each month to irrigate their garden.

Her book recounts their effort to cut back their water habit, by a lot. Along the way, she discovers how much water is lost to leakage in the United States — a trillion gallons a year — and how low its price is related to its value and growing scarcity.

At times Dr. Pabich’s environmental correctness can be wearying. And her suggestions for reducing water use are mostly self-evident: fix leaks, install low-flow toilets and water-miser washers, turn off the shower while you lather, and so on.

But she also supplies a chart detailing the “water footprint” of various commodities. For example, it takes 22.8 gallons of water to produce, package and ship a single egg. A pound of beef requires 183 gallons. By contrast, strawberries come in at 3.6 gallons per cup, and it takes only 1.3 gallons of water to produce a tomato.

The results of her experiment are both gratifying and alarming. She and her husband did cut their water use in half, but that took them only to the level that residents of places like Japan or Poland routinely achieve.

Perhaps, she and others write, people would think more about water if it were priced differently. Cheap water may reflect a widespread view that access to clean water is a natural right that everyone, rich or poor, should enjoy.

Is that the approach most likely to bring clean water to the most people? Maybe not. “Clean water is no longer a free gift of nature,” Dr. Soll writes. It is “a shared resource that can be preserved only through judicious investments and active engagement.”

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Harry Kraemer, Author of From Values To Action, Gives A TED Talk https://dsmagency.com/?p=2072 https://dsmagency.com/?p=2072#comments Mon, 23 Sep 2013 20:00:51 +0000 http://dsmagency.com/?p=2072 ]]> Harry Kraemer delivers his four value-based leadership principles at TEDx event organized by Kellogg student. Watch Kraemer’s 15-minute talk starting at the 1:01 mark.

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TEDxUNPLAZA co-curator and executive producer Kunal Sood invited Kramer so the audience could experience the passion and expertise Sood saw in Kraemer’s classroom. Sood is a student in the Kellogg Executive MBA Program.

Kraemer, also an executive partner at private equity firm Madison Dearborn, gave four leadership principles he developed while chairman and CEO of the $9 billion global healthcare company Baxter International Inc.:

  1. Self-reflection: “I think we can start to separate noise from what really, really matters.”
  2. Balance: “Seek to understand before you’re understood.”
  3. True self-confidence: “You surround yourself with people that are much better than you on the things you’re not that good at.”
  4. Genuine humility: “Remember the cube. Most of us, when we started in a cube, whenever that was, we knew how we wanted to be treated.”
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The Personal Business Plan: A Blueprint for Running Your Life https://dsmagency.com/?p=2036 https://dsmagency.com/?p=2036#comments Mon, 16 Sep 2013 20:26:36 +0000 http://dsmagency.com/?p=2036 The Personal Business Plan: A Blueprint for Running Your Life.  
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Stephen Bruyant-Langer explains the logic behind his recently released book, The Personal Business Plan: A Blueprint for Running Your Life.

 

 

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This practical guide to creating a defined and actionable plan to achieve success and happiness. It will give you the answers to these fundamental questions – and more:

  • How do you balance your professional and your personal life?
  • How do you get the most out of your high potential situation?
  • How do you create a sustainable position for your family and yourself?
  • How do you identify and focus on the important things in life?
  • How do you avoid the emotional burnout from constantly giving to others?
  • How do you get success?
  • How do you find happiness?

“Aim at learning more the next 20 years than you have learned the last 20 years”

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Inspiration For Rwanda, Inc. https://dsmagency.com/?p=1910 https://dsmagency.com/?p=1910#comments Fri, 30 Aug 2013 14:15:52 +0000 http://dsmagency.com/?p=1910 Rwanda, Inc:
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Patricia Cristafulli and Andrea Redmond share what inspired them to pen Rwanda, Inc:

 

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MELT Neck Exercises https://dsmagency.com/?p=1988 https://dsmagency.com/?p=1988#comments Thu, 29 Aug 2013 17:19:12 +0000 http://dsmagency.com/?p=1988 The MELT Method by Sue Hitzmann and Debbie Karch!
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Try these neck decompressing exercises from the book The MELT Method by Sue Hitzmann and Debbie Karch!

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Summer Intern Testimonial https://dsmagency.com/?p=2000 https://dsmagency.com/?p=2000#comments Wed, 28 Aug 2013 17:28:03 +0000 http://dsmagency.com/?p=2000 My internship at DSM Agency taught me that working at a literary agency goes beyond reading submissions. I learned how to sell a book for the best possible terms and establish a great relationship with an author. Doris and Pauline were incredibly supportive and went beyond their way to provide me with resources so that I could make the most out of my experience. They invited me to events for agents, which have made me a well-rounded intern. Thanks to their mentorship, I now have a solid foundation that will help me blossom into a publishing professional in the near future.

– Alicia Ramirez

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DSM Agency is extremely thankful to have had Alicia Ramirez as the 2013 summer intern. We wish her much success wherever her journey takes her.

My internship at DSM Agency taught me that working at a literary agency goes beyond reading submissions. I learned how to sell a book for the best possible terms and establish a great relationship with an author. Doris and Pauline were incredibly supportive and went beyond their way to provide me with resources so that I could make the most out of my experience. They invited me to events for agents, which have made me a well-rounded intern. Thanks to their mentorship, I now have a solid foundation that will help me blossom into a publishing professional in the near future.

– Alicia Ramirez

For more intern testimonials, click here.

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