John Silbersack brings over twenty-five years of publishing and editorial experience to Trident Media Group. Prior to joining Trident, Mr. Silbersack built a solid publishing background at companies such as HarperCollins, Warner Books, and Penguin Putnam. He founded six imprints including ROC Books, HarperEntertainment, and HarperChildren’sEntertainment and worked with writers and media properties including General Wesley Clark, Chuck Close, Philip K. Dick, Harlan Ellison, Dean Koontz, Ursula K. LeGuin, Major League Baseball, NASCAR, the NBA, Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen, the Presidential Inaugural Committee, the Ellen Raskin Estate, Charles Schulz, Titanic, Denzel Washington, and The X-Files. John also previously served as Editor-in-Chief of WarnerAspect and Editorial Director of ROC Books.
As a literary agent, John has enjoyed tremendous success and has developed a diverse roster of clients spanning the genres of both fiction and non-fiction, including literary fiction, commercial fiction, young adult, history, thrillers, science fiction, current events, children’s books, narrative non-fiction, science, biography, and literary memoir. Drawing on his more than twenty years as an editor, John works closely with his clients to develop and refine their proposals and manuscripts, many of which have gone on to become New York Times and international bestsellers. This attention to detail and strong sense of the agent’s role in the publishing process are the defining aspects of Mr. Silbersack’s success as a literary agent.
John is always looking for new projects and is currently interested in seeing both commercial and literary fiction, science fiction and fantasy, narrative non-fiction, young adult, and thrillers, as well as branding and licensing prospects.
John has an A.B. from Brown University and is the author of several books. He is married and has three children.
LIST OF CLIENTS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER:
"A Day in the Life...", Dr. Andrew Adesman, Jessica Lee Anderson, Kevin J. Anderson, Paul Babiak, Neil Baldwin, Larry Bond, Tom Carhart, Lincoln Chafee, Victor Cherkashin, Tom Clancy’s Op Center, Chuck Close, Jean-Michel Cousteau, John Coyne, Ann Downer, Pete Earley, Emme, Robert Edelstein, George Feifer, Gregory Feifer, Christopher Finch, Michael Jan Friedman, Bruce George, “Ghost Hunters” Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson, Robert D. Hare, Brian Herbert, The Frank Herbert Estate, Frank Herbert's DUNE, Albert Jack, Douglas Jehl, Roger Kahn, John Kasich, E.E. Knight, Patrick Larkin, Diana Loevy, Gregg O. McCrary, Glenn Kaplan, Peter Manus, Anne McCaffrey’s Acorna, Donyell Kennedy-McCullough, Rebecca Moesta, Edward Myers, Jay Mulvaney, Orvis, Dan Paisner, Paul Park, Charles Platt, Petru Popescu, The Presidential Inaugural Committee, Lilly Pulitzer, Katherine Ramsland, Louis Reyes Rivera, Curtis Roosevelt, Jeff Rovin, Michael Rubens, Dr. Seymour Schwartz, Michael Slade, Professor James Starrs, Matthew Stevenson, Prof. Michael S. Sweeney, Mark Cotta Vaz, Denzel Washington, Bob Wiedemer, David Wiedemer, Wild Planet Toys, N. Lee Wood, John Wyndham, Clint Van Zandt
