Agency Staff

Christy Fletcher

Christy Fletcher is the Founding Partner of Fletcher & Company.

Christy studied writing and film at the University of Southern California. She moved to New York to work in publishing and began her career at the Carol Mann Agency where she worked closely with such writers as Paul Auster, Timothy Egan, Judith Wallerstein, Shelby Steele, and a host of others. After three years, she left to help start Carlisle & Company (now part of Inkwell Management) where she continued to build a strong list of bestselling and award-winning writers.

In 2003, Christy left her position as Vice President at Carlisle & Company to co-found Fletcher & Parry with her colleague Emma Parry, bringing with them their respective clients and backlists. She launched the agency’s move into feature film and television production and management in 2006, and acts as producer on several client-based projects. In the summer of 2008, Emma Parry left publishing and Christy became sole owner.

Melissa Chinchillo

Melissa Chinchillo joined the agency in 2004, after ten years of teaching literature, film, and women's studies at universities in New York and Boston. In addition to representing her own authors, Melissa is the agency's Rights Director and also represents foreign rights for The Veltre Company.

She represents a mix of literary and high quality commercial fiction for adults and young adults, with a special interest in multicultural literature, smart women's fiction, horror, thrillers, crime and the paranormal—as well as select, high concept children's books. Melissa is actively building her nonfiction list in particular, and her interests include but are not limited to narrative non-fiction in history, current affairs/politics, popular science, popular culture, travel and memoir, and given her academic background she is a good fit for academic/trade books. Her clients range from academics to syndicated cartoonists, and from debut novelists to well-established authors

Melissa holds a B.A. in English and Philosophy, M.A. in World Literature (both from Simmons College), and is A.B.D. in the Ph.D. program at SUNY-StonyBrook's English Department, where she also earned graduate teaching certification in film studies and women's studies. Before entering publishing, she was active in academia, presenting at Modern Language Association and other conferences, and teaching American literature, film studies and women's studies at Stony Brook and several universities in Boston— primarily Suffolk University, Wheelock College, and Simmons College.

Swanna MacNair

Swanna MacNair joined Fletcher & Company in the summer of 2008 after working in the film business for ten years. She was most recently a Production and Development executive at Misher Films, based at Paramount Pictures where she was responsible for scouting, acquiring and developing literary properties for feature film and television adaptation. Among the diverse projects she worked on were adaptations for Tim Gautreax’s The Clearing for Universal Studios and Alain Robbe-Grillet’s classic, Le Voyeur, set up at Sony Pictures, Eric Jager's The Last Duel, with Martin Scorsese attached to direct for Paramount Pictures and Bryan Burrough’s Public Enemies, directed by Michael Mann and starring Johnny Depp and Christian Bale, to be released by Universal in summer 2009.

Prior to working for Misher, Swanna worked for film studio New Line Cinema for four years where her focus was scouting, acquiring books for adaptation. While at New Line, she acquired the rights and worked on the adaptations for Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera and He's Just Not That Into You by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo, soon to be released as a feature film starring Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore and Ben Affleck, and as well as worked on The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke, The Persian Bride by James Buchan, along with screenwriter Jeffrey Caine (THE CONSTANT GARDNER) and director Todd Field (IN THE BEDROOM).

Swanna hails from the Mississippi Gulf Coast and earned a degree in Journalism from Loyola University in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her Southern roots have keenly established a love for Southern literature and music. Her other interests include, but are not limited to, literary fiction, non-fiction, narrative journalism, investigative journalism, international fictions, thrillers, crime, paranormal, cultural studies, medical investigation, Young Adult, self-help, minority literature and smart romance.

Grainne Fox

Grainne Fox joined Fletcher & Company in September 2008, having worked as an agent in the UK for 9 years. Bringing with her an established list of food writers, Michelin starred chefs, award-winning journalists and up-market, commercial fiction authors, she is dedicated to her clients and is actively looking for Irish literary fiction and more smart, up-market fiction.

At Ed Victor Ltd, she worked as the Foreign Rights Manager and liaised with sub agents all over the world. She began to set up her own list in 2003 while also working closely with Ed Victor’s authors (who include Josephine Hart, Edna O'Brien, Justine Picardie, John Banville, Ben Macintyre, Tina Brown, Nigella Lawson, Freddie Forsyth, Adrian Gill). She is expert at handling the media, and sold serial rights for several high profile clients and negotiated newspaper/magazine deals. She also managed the film/ TV side of the agency's business, working with co-agents and also regularly dealing directly, especially for television.

She studied English Literature at Trinity College, Dublin and went on to pursue a Masters in Public Relations at The Dublin Institute of Technology.

With unique UK experience, she works with select agents in London to represent their authors in the US market.

Rebecca Gradinger

Rebecca Gradinger joined Fletcher & Company in 2009 after previously working as an agent at Janklow & Nesbit Associates. Prior to that she was a foreign literary scout at Mary Anne Thompson Associates, a lawyer, practicing media and intellectual property law, at Frankfurt Garbus Klein & Selz, and in a previous life a road manager for the MTV comedy troupe, The State.

Rebecca has eclectic taste in the books that she represents but a common thread in almost all of her projects is a strong emotional core. She is interested in projects that fall into the following categories: literary fiction, upmarket commercial fiction, narrative non-fiction, self-help, memoir, humor, parenting, YA, and pop culture. Rebecca's particular areas of interest are: health and medicine, memoir that takes you into unfamiliar worlds, women’s issues of all kinds, cultural studies, and fiction that is simply impossible to stop reading (and if it makes you weep, all the better!). Some of Rebecca’s recent clients include Dr. Pauline Chen New York Times columnist and author of the New York Times bestseller FINAL EXAM: A Surgeon’s Reflections on Mortality (Knopf), Amy Silverstein's SICK GIRL (Grove), Kathleen Grissom's THE KITCHEN HOUSE (S&S) Catherine Hanrahan's LOST GIRLS AND LOVE HOTELS (Harpercollins), D.G Fulford's DESIGNATED DAUGHTER (Hyperion), and Lilit Marcus' SAVE THE ASSISTANTS (Hyperion).

Rebecca is on the executive committee for the New York MS Chapter’s BOOKS FOR A BETTER LIFE AWARDS and is a board member of the Feminist Press. She has been on the faculty of Publishing Books, Memoirs and Other Creative Nonfiction at Harvard Medical School’s Department of Continuing Education. She holds a BA from Barnard College and a JD from George Washington University Law Center. She is originally from Montreal, Canada and is the proud mother of two “spirited” little girls.

Donald Lamm

Donald Lamm has been an agent with Fletcher & Company for four years, after previously working as an agent at Carlisle & Company. Before that, he served for forty-five years at W.W. Norton & Company as an Editor, President from 1976 until 1984, and company Chairman until his retirement in 2000.

At Fletcher & Company, he works with clients who are leaders in their respective fields, covering a wide array of non-fiction subjects and genres. His specialties include history, biography, investigative journalism, politics, current affairs, and business books for the trade.

Don has been chair of the board of governors of the Yale University Press and a trustee of the Columbia University Press. He is currently a trustee of the University of California Press and of the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he resides. Don is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an honor shared with only two other book publishers in the 230 years of the institution’s history, and vice president of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.

Anne Loder

Anne Loder comes to Fletcher & Company from the The Gersh Talent and Literary Agency where she worked as a Talent Agent’s assistant. She completed her bachelor’s degree at Ohio University in Telecommunications with a concentration in English and Journalism. Prior to Gersh, Anne worked at Guiding Light in the Casting office.

Anne’s interest include non fiction, literary fiction, popular culture, poetry, and narrative journalism.

Lucinda Blumenfeld

Lucinda Blumenfeld joins Fletcher & Company as Marketing Manager, developing marketing strategies and brand extensions for agency clients, and scouting opportunities for writers within emerging technology, new media and social networking.

As an agent for the company, Lucinda is interested in representing journalists, specialists, and emerging, young voices. Specific categories include: narrative and prescriptive nonfiction, business, memoir, YA, cultural studies, commercial and literary fiction.

Lucinda discovered an interest in online opportunities for writers through two wonderful publicists and mentors at William Morrow/HarperCollins. Upon leaving Morrow, Lucinda maintained a referral-based publicity and management business, Rockwood Entertainment, representing both authors and musicians. Lucinda has helped in the publicity efforts of authors including Bret AnthonyJohnston, Cindy Dyson, Ben Mezrich, Stephen Dubner, and Douglas Brinkley. Her most recent role was in partnerships/sales for Scholastic's Custom Media Division.

Lucinda studied at McGill University in Montreal and the Sorbonne in Paris, but claims to be originally from New York.