…website begun, then more or less abandoned.
Quite a bit has happened since May 2004.
The literary agency formerly known as Creative Book Services (not to be confused with a similarly named business in Seattle) has now become, less confusingly, the Bob Mecoy Literary Agency.
Updates promised in the somewhat near future.
11 May, 2004
Isabella V’s SHE’S A FLIGHT RISK: Memoirs of a Twentysomething International Fugitive, a book proposal now on submission based on her online journal, which chronicled a very different sort of runaway’s life–a child of privilege hiding behind bodyguards, slipping across borders on the run from her own family, optioned to Gold Circle Films (”My Big Fat Greek Wedding”), by Matthew Snyder at CAA, for Bob Mecoy of Creative Book Services.
10 March, 2004
UK rights to Adrian McKinty’s second novel HIDDEN RIVER to Pete Ayreton at Serpent’s Tail, in a nice deal, by Paul O’Halloran at Simon & Schuster. His agent is Bob Mecoy at Creative Book Services.
2 March, 2004
Mark St. Amant’s COMMITTED: Diary of a Fantasy Football Junkie, a combination of A SEASON ON THE BRINK and WORD FREAK, that tells of the year when he quit his advertising job (with his wife’s permission) to try to simultaneously win his fantasy football league and get to the bottom of his (and 20 million others like him) obsession with this game, to Brant Rumble at Scribner, in a nice deal, by Bob Mecoy at Creative Book Services (NA).
18 February, 2004
Adrian McKinty’s BANDIT COUNTRY and BLOOMSDAY, sequels to both his first crime novel and his upcoming second (HIDDEN RIVER), again to Colin Harrison at Scribners, in a good deal, by Bob Mecoy at Creative Book Services (world).
13 February, 2004
Doug Farrago, MD’s THE PLACEBO CHRONICLES, drawn from the true-life medical humor mag that’s a cross between The Darwin Awards and The Onion, providing a blackly comic look at the stages of a doctor’s career from medical school right through final burnout, in too-true anecdotes about battles with patients, drug and insurance companies and the HMOs from doctors across the country and around the world, to Charlie Conrad at Broadway, in a nice deal, by Bob Mecoy at Creative Book Services (NA).
11 February, 2003
Film rights to Adrian McKinty’s forthcoming novel DEAD I WELL MAY BE, about an Irish mobster who has an affair with the boss’s mistress, optioned to Anonymous Content, with David Kanter and Steve Golin producing along with Steve Gaghan, who will adapt and direct, by UTA, for Bob Mecoy.