Chip MacGregor - What You Need to Know about Today’s Publishing Industry

Chip MacGregor

What You Need to Know about 

Today’s Publishing Industry

Chip MacGregor is the president of MacGregor Literary, Inc., a full-service literary agency that works in both CBA as well as the general market. Chip has been working in the publishing industry for more than three decades, and made his living as a freelance writer and editor for several years. He is the author of numerous books, including a couple of bestselling nonfiction titles, and formerly served as a publisher with Time-Warner Book Group. He began working as an agent nineteen years ago, and has represented hundreds of titles. The authors he represents have won every major CBA writing award, and their books have been on all the bestseller lists -- New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, LA Times, Amazon, the CBA and ECPA lists, and one title he represented hit #1 on the New York Times list. Ten years ago he began his own literary agency, and over the past eight years he has consistently been one of the busiest literary agents in the United States. He works with both fiction and nonfiction titles, but the majority of the business he is currently doing is non-fiction. Chip has an undergraduate degree from Portland State University, a master's from Biola University, did doctoral work at the University of Oregon, and post-doc work at Oxford University. A well-known speaker at writing conferences and via online writing sites, he lives on the Oregon coast.  

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