A full-service literary and talent management agency committed to the success of our authors, artists and entertainers. THE LESHNE AGENCY is a full-service literary and talent management agency committed to the success of our clients over the course of their careers.
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We represent a select and growing number of writers, artists, and entertainers interested in building their brands, audience platforms, and developing long-term relationships via all forms of traditional and social media. We take a deeply personal approach by working closely with our clients to develop their best ideas for maximum impact and reach across print, digital and other formats, providing hands-on guidance and networking for lasting success. LISA LESHNE has been in the media & entertainment business for over 25 years. Lisa’s previous experience spans the broadest range of the industry. In 1991, she co-founded The Prague Post, the largest English-language newspaper in Central Europe, along with its book division and website, PraguePost.com. Lisa worked in Prague as the newspaper's Publisher for almost a decade. In 1999, she moved to Manhattan to work in strategy and business development for Dow Jones, and was Executive Director, International, for WSJ.com, the Wall Street Journal Online, responsible for digital business operations in Europe and Asia, overseeing advertising, marketing, and circulation. Lisa also served as VP, Strategy and Business Development, for Ink2, an industry leader in the print-on-demand industry and the owner of Cardstore.com. Lisa worked for a year after 9/11 at the New York City Partnership's Financial Recovery Fund, evaluating grant applications and providing strategic advice to small businesses destroyed in the World Trade Center attacks. She previously worked for Accenture (Andersen Consulting) as a Senior Consultant in the Entertainment & Media Group. Prior to founding The Leshne Agency in 2011, she was a literary agent at LJK Literary. Lisa has a BA degree in Sociology from the University of California at Santa Barbara and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Literary Specialties: I am most interested in narrative and prescriptive non-fiction, especially on sports, wellness, business, political and parenting topics. I love memoirs that transport the reader into another person’s head and give a voyeuristic view of another person's extraordinary experiences. I enjoy literary and commercial fiction and some young adult and middle-grade books that take the reader on a journey and are just plain fun to read. Talent Management: I manage a select number of my literary and entertainment clients, advising them over the course of their careers. More at www.leshneagency.com
Mission: THE LESHNE AGENCY is a full-service literary and talent management agency committed to the success of our clients over the course of their careers. We represent a select and growing number of writers, artists, and entertainers interested in building their brands, audience platforms, and developing long-term relationships via all forms of traditional and social media. We take a deeply personal approach by working closely with our clients to develop their best ideas for maximum impact and reach across print, digital and other formats, providing hands-on guidance and networking for lasting success.
#coverreveal for #ladyparts by @dcopaken! @leshneagency could not be more proud to represent this supremely talented author and her work. Available for pre-order now, #pubdate is August 3, 2021. #cantwait #literarylife #memoir @randomhouse
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📚 A very cool surprise to find The Leshne Agency’s book recommendations on the home page of Hamptons Magazine! Thank you to Editor-in-Chief Anetta Nowosielska for giving me this platform! I highly recommend #ihopthishelps by 🦀 Tommy Siegel, #thenewchardonnay by 🍃 heather.cabot and #thespider by 🕷 Barry Levine. Crown Publishing Andrews McMeel 💜 @leshneagency
💜 📚 Thank you @hamptonsmag and Editor-in-Chief @anettanow for featuring my reading recommendations in the Winter issue! 🌱 #thenewchardonnay #newchardonnay @heather.cabot 🕷#thespider #truecrime #barrylevineauthor #ihopethishelps 🦀 @tommysiegel @naomiwatts
@GMA reports on the Ghislaine Maxwell case as her 2016 deposition is unsealed, and talks to author Barry Levine about Maxwell’s criminal role with Jeffrey Epstein, among other revelations in his new book, THE SPIDER . https://tinyurl.com/y4skc8hf
#thespider #JeffreyEpstein #GhislaineMaxwell
📚An exclusive excerpt in @forbes for 🕷 THE SPIDER: Inside The Tangled Web of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell by Barry Levine. Book out Tuesday, Oct. 20th. The Trump-Epstein connection investigated in depth. https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2020/10/18/spider-book-excerpt-how-trumps-presidency-helped-expose-jeffrey-epstein/#653ed0bf408f
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@crownpublishing @penguinrandomhouse #jeffreyepstein #ghislainemaxwell @realdonaldtrump @lincolnproject.us @gtconway3d #truecrime #newbook #bookstagram #leshneagency @barryscoopking
🎙 Author @heather.cabot was on NPR’s ALL THINGS CONSIDERED program to discuss her new book, THE NEW CHARDONNAY: HOW MARIJUANA WENT MAINSTREAM. Link to listen: https://www.npr.org/2020/10/10/922679218/author-heather-cabot-on-how-marijuana-went-mainstream .
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@leshneagency @npr #allthingsconsidered #cannabiscommunity #marijuana #cannabisbusinessinfo #businessbooks @crownpublishing @lisaleshne @npratc
📚 💜Happy Book Baby and Pub Week to Tommy Siegel for his debut collection of brilliant and witty comics & essays: I HOPE THIS HELPS: COMICS AND CURES FOR 21st CENTURY PANIC. This is the book we all need to laugh our asses off. Links to order at: https://publishing.andrewsmcmeel.com/book/i-hope-this-helps/
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Jukebox the Ghost Andrews McMeel #momsdonthavetimetoreadbooks #comicbooks Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books with Zibby Owens #newbook #bookstagram
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🕷 #coverreveal and 📚 #newbook announcement: @leshneagency is proud to represent author BARRY LEVINE for THE SPIDER: INSIDE THE CRIMINAL WEB OF JEFFREY EPSTEIN & GHISLAINE MAXWELL by @crownpublishing on Oct. 20th and you can #preorder now. Exclusive new revelations about Epstein’s early days, the sources of his fortune & business dealings, the powerful people caught in his web with Maxwell, new details about his final days in jail and the mystery surrounding his death, and first person accounts from victims.
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#jeffreyepstein #ghislainemaxwell #thespider #barrylevineauthor #crownpublishing @penguinrandomhouse
🇨🇿 Happy 89th Birthday to our most prolific author, Ivan Klíma. 📚 His memoir, MY CRAZY CENTURY, was called “masterful” by Philip Roth and “brilliant, witty and poignant” by Madeleine Albright. It recounts his extraordinary life lived under totalitarianism, first as a child in the Nazi concentration camps, to the communist show trials in his Czechoslovakia, to his life as a dissident writer through the Prague Spring and ultimately the Velvet Revolution. His examination of oppression and censorship is even more important and meaningful now. If you’ve never read any of Klima’s 30+ novels, we highly recommend LOVE AND GARBAGE; WAITING FOR DARK, WAITING FOR LIGHT; FOR THE LOVE OF PRAGUE; NO SAINTS OR ANGELS; JUDGE ON TRIAL; and LOVERS FOR A DAY. Vsechno nejlepsi, Ivan! 🎂
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#ivanklima #ivanklíma #mycrazycentury @m_klima @maentrekin @groveatlantic @thisispattismith #czechrepublic #czechwriters @penamerica @suzanne.nossel Grove Atlantic Madeleine K. Albright
📚 Happy Pub Day to Commander @guysnodgrass (@usnavy ret.) on his new book, TOPGUN’S TOP 10: LEADERSHIP LESSONS FROM THE COCKPIT. The instructors at the US Navy’s Fighter Weapon’s School were the real-life inspiration for the #Maverick, #Goose & #Iceman characters in the movie #topgun and Snodgrass shares 10 great lessons that make this book the perfect read or gift for anyone looking for inspiration! ✈️ Ch. 6 is “Don’t Confuse Activity With Progress”. Sure wish @realdonaldtrump understood that one.
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#guysnodgrass @hachetteus @centerstreetbooks #leadershipbooks #leadership #navy @theanthonyedwards_ @valkilmerofficial #tomcruise #graduationgift #backtoschoolgift #careeradvice #careerchange #newbook #bookstagram #momsdonthavetimetoreadbooks @zibbyowens #leshneagency @stevecbald #lunamaynyc @lunamaynyc @lisaleshne #bookhampton
Looking for some QUARANTINE READING? Look no further than NYT Bestselling Author Jesse Itzler to inspire your spiritual and physical growth! #livingwithaseal #livingwiththemonks #jesseitzler #bylr #buildyourliferesume @buildyourliferesume @bylrradio @29029everesting @hachetteus @centerstreetbooks #inspiration #leshneagency Lisa Leshne
@usatoday just published an important Op-Ed by @leshneagency author @megzucker . Meg is completing her book proposal for BORN DIFFERENT: How To Help Your Children Claim Their Power. Check out @justflauntit_ Meg & her kids are a huge inspiration to families all over the world. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2020/09/01/coronavirus-social-distancing-covid-19-empathy-column/5678621002/ .
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#donthideitflauntit #empathy #raisingkids #covid19 #raisingkidswithdifferences #parenting
📚As a #literaryagent , nothing beats that feeling of receiving the first copy of a book your author worked so hard on. ✈️ Commander @guysnodgrass US Navy (ret.) wrote TOPGUN’S TOP 10: Leadership Lessons From the Cockpit as a way to give back. He’s a former TOPGUN instructor (meaning he was in the top 1% of the top 1% of all Navy fighter pilots) and the motivating stories & lessons he shares will resonate with anyone who wants to take their performance to the next level- be it school, business, politics and life. Out Sept. 15th. Perfect gift book. #pre-order now! #topgun #topgunbook #topgunstop10 @centerstreetbooks @hachetteus @leshneagency @lisaleshne
📚Today is pub day for BE ALL IN: Raising Kids for Success in Sports and Life by ⚽️🏅🏅🏅Olympian @christierampone3 and Sports Neuropsychologist 👩🏻⚕️@drkristinekeane . Every parent with kids who play sports should read this book! Every coach needs this book! @leshneagency loves #beallin 💜
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#beallinbook foreword by @abbywambach #booklaunch #booklaunchday @grandcentralpub @hachetteus #literarylife #booklover #sportsbook #parenting
💜Thanks @washingtonpost for recognizing this @tommysiegel cartoon to illustrate your story on “Doom Scrolling” to get through the pandemic.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/wellness/coronavirus-doom-scrolling-stop/2020/07/29/2c87e9b2-d034-11ea-8d32-1ebf4e9d8e0d_story.html
You can preorder Tommy’s first published book, I HOPE THIS HELPS: COMICS AND CURES FOR 21st CENTURY PANIC, the first book ever written and illustrated by a crab with a giant nose, HERE:
https://publishing.andrewsmcmeel.com/book/i-hope-this-helps/ .📚
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#ihopethishelpsbook @andrewsmcmeel @comics #momsdonthavetimetoreadbooks @momsdonthavetimetoreadbooks #preorder #booklover @lisaleshne @jukeboxtheghost #jukeboxtheghost @ New York, New York
📚🐶 So many great books!!! BE ALL IN, THE NEW CHARDONNAY, I HOPE THIS HELPS! Get your summer reading on & pre-order now! 💜
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@heather.cabot @christierampone3 @drkristinekeane @tommysiegel @zibbyowens @momsdonthavetimetoreadbooks @gmabookclub @bookhampton @jukeboxtheghost #beallinbook #thenewchardonnay #newchardonnay #ihopethishelps #tommysiegel #newbooks #booklover #literarylife #dogsofinstagram #lunamaynyc
📚Well this is a happy first!!! @gmabookclub named TWO of @leshneagency books as “must reads for August”! Thank you @zibbyowens and @momsdonthavetimetoreadbooks for choosing 🍷 THE NEW CHARDONNAY 🍃 by @heather.cabot and ⚽️ BE ALL IN by @christierampone3 and 🥼 @drkristinekeane! 💜
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#greatsummerreads #summerreading #thenewchardonnay #newchardonnay #beallinbook #beallin #momsdonthavetimetoreadbooks #gmabookclub #gma #preordernow #leshneagency @penguinrandomhouse @hachettebookgroup @grandcentralpublishing #cannabisbooks #sportsparents #soccermoms
📚#lunamaynyc says you should pre-order BE ALL IN: RAISING ATHLETES FOR SUCCESS IN SPORTS AND LIFE! We are so proud of co-authors @christierampone3 and @drkristinekeane and thank @abbywambach for her fabulous foreword. Christie is the most decorated American soccer player of all-time, ⚽️ former co-captain of the @uswnt w 3X Olympic gold 🏅 and 2X FIFA World Cup 🥇! Kristine is a Sports Neuropsychologist & brain 🧠 health expert. This book is for parents, coaches & athletes and the advice is priceless. Pub day is Aug. 18th from @grandcentralpub .
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#beallinbook #soccermoms #sportsmom #newbook #preorder #literarylife @hachettebooks @momsdonthavetimetoreadbooks #momsdonthavetimetoreadbooks @bookhampton #bookhampton @foxsports @hmhnewjersey #basketballmom🏀 #dogsofinstagram #dogsofthehamptons #dogsofeasthampton @carietrutanich @ BookHampton
💜That feeling you get when you receive the first actual copy of the debut book by your 🎸 #rockstar author @tommysiegel from @jukeboxtheghost I HOPE THIS HELPS: COMICS AND CURES FOR 21st CENTURY PANIC (could just as well read 21st C PANDEMIC!) Super proud of this 210-page collection of comics & essays published by @andrewsmcmeel available for pre-order now! Pub date 10.6.2020 #preorder #ihopethishelps #comics #tommysiegel #newbook #momsdonthavetimetoreadbooks #leshneagency #lunamaynyc @lunamaynyc @lisaleshne
💜Always thrilling to get the first copies of a new book 📚#hotoffthepress 🔥🔥! THE NEW CHARDONNAY: How Marijuana Went Mainstream by @heather.cabot hits bookstores August 11th, but you can pre-order now!
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#newchardonnay #thenewchardonnay #cannabiscommunity #cannabisculture #marijuana #marijuanabooks #newbook #bookstagram #booklaunch #momsdonthavetimetoreadbooks @crownpublishing @penguinrandomhouse @snoopdogg @marthaandsnoop @ethanzohn @thesharkdaymond @leewoodruff @katiecouric @ajjacobsinc @momsdonthavetimetoreadbooks #purplehairdontcare
📚This is a real challenge for authors, publishers and literary agents. @leshneagency has two books publishing in August, one in September, and two in October. Fingers crossed! #BeAllIn #TheNewChardonnay #TopGunsTop10 #IHopeThisHelps #TheSpider Grand Central Publishing Crown Publishing @centerstreet Andrews McMeel Hachette Book Group Penguin Random House Christie Pearce Rampone Dr. Kristine Keane heather.cabot @guysnodrass Tommy Siegel @barryscoopking @lisaleshne #leshneagency
Work that revolves around rows of bookshelves adjusts to a remote setting.
🍷 📚 Get ready for THE NEW CHARDONNAY: How Marijuana Went Mainstream on Aug 11th! Journalist Heather Cabot spent 3 years investigating the wacky and wild world of legal cannabis. The result is “juicy reading” (thanks, Publishers Weekly!) with “Hollywood-ready characters,” (AJ Jacobs) and a “page turner” (Lee Woodruff) with lots of “deep reporting…and great storytelling” (Katie Kouric). Pre-order yours today wherever books are sold. .
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@leshneagency #cannacurious #thenewchardonnay @newchardonnay @preordernow #newbooklaunch #booksofinstagram @momsdonthavetimetoreadbooks @penguinrandomhouse @crownbooks @crowncurrency
🖊💜Are you wondering what motivated @leshneagency to finally join IG? Post our first IG story today? Please check it out! It’s our new summer intern, @gubezzzzz!! We’re so happy to have her join the #leshneagency team. Alexis is a rising senior at High School of American Studies at Lehman College and hopes to work in the publishing industry in marketing. Welcome, Alexis! #summerinternship #highschool #highschoolsenior #literarylife #nyckids #nycpublicschools 📚
🖊💜We wouldn’t be a “full-service” agency without the fabulous @sandyabh who’s managed our foreign rights 🌏 department from the start. She does deals all over the world, and enables our authors like @jesseitzler, @heather.cabot, @samwalravens, Ivan Klíma & Dr. Harley Rotbart to get published in 🇨🇳 China, 🇹🇼 Taiwan, 🇩🇪 Germany, 🇮🇹 Italy, 🇪🇪 Estonia, 🇰🇷 South Korea, 🇧🇦 Bosnia, 🇻🇳 Vietnam, 🇵🇱 Poland, 🇱🇧 Lebanon, 🇷🇺 Russia, 🇹🇷 Turkey, & 🇬🇧 UK to name a bunch! Thank you, Sandy!!! 🌎 #books #literarylife #literaryagent #literaryagentsofinstagram @leshneagency
🖊💜Next up in our “meet the agents” series is Christine Lee! Christine joined us in 2018 from the rights department at @simonandschuster and brought a wealth of knowledge from her time there and at another big publishing house, @stmartinspress. You’ll see she has a broad range of literary interests, and is enjoying the time in quarantine hanging out with her precious 14-month-old son, her husband, & their cat 🐈 in Brooklyn.
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. #literarylife #literaryagent #literaryagentsofinstagram @princetonalumni @universityofhouston #literaryfiction #scifi #bookstagram #books #thrillers #horror #truecrime #romancebooks #youngadultbooks #cookbooks #interiordesign #gardening #parentingbooks #memoir 📚
🖊💜Next up in our series of “meet the agents” is Yvette Greenwald! Yvette joined our team in early 2018 and brings her deep knowledge of commercial fiction, love of memoir, and her legal skills to the agency. 👩⚖️ Fun fact: Yvette worked with @ussupremecourt Justice @sotomayor.sonia as an associate at a private law firm before Sotomayor’s appointment to the #SCOTUS. #literarylife #literaryagent #literaryagentsofinstagram @tulanealumni @brooklynlawschool 📚
🖊 💜@leshneagency couldn’t have survived the last year without @morricesamantha 🎭 💃 keeping us organized and displaying her crack editing skills. She has strong opinions, fabulous taste, and biting wit that makes us all smile. Thankful to @zoom_video_communications for keeping us connected. 💻 #literarylife #literaryagent #literaryagentsofinstagram @nyualumni
📚 We are so excited to announce that #leshneagency authors 3x 🥇Olympic Gold Medalist and 2x FIFA World Cup Champion @christierampone3 ⚽️ and Sports Neuropsychologist & Brain Health Expert @drkristinekeane 🧠 will publish their first book in August! BE ALL IN shares best practices that athletes, parents & coaches can use to turn lessons learned from sports into lifelong skills. Foreword by @abbywambach #beallinbook #beallin Pre-order now: www.beallinbook.com @grandcentralpub ⚽️🏀🏈⚾️🥎🎾🏐🏉🥏🏓🏸🏒🥍⛳️⛸⛷🏂🤼♂️⛹🏾🏇🏽🤽🏾🚴🏽♀️ #youthsports #sportsparents #soccermom #coverreveal #momsdonthavetimetoreadbooks #hockeymom #tennismom #baseballmom #footballmom #coaches #youthcoach #newbook #parentingbooks #motivationalbooks #lacrossemom #baseballdad #footballdad #soccerdad #christierampone #womensworldcup #olympicgold #uswnt
💜🖊The first in a series introducing our agents, starting with our founder, @lisaleshne. Thanks to our summer intern, @gubezzzzz for getting us up & running in IG and producing this series! #bookstagram #literarylife #literaryagents #ilovebooks📚 #reading #booknerd #prague🇨🇿 #praguepost @harvardhbs @hbsalumni @ucsantabarbara @ucsbalumni #broadway
🖊💜More information about #leshneagency at leshneagency.com. We’re proud to represent a wide range of authors, especially upcoming books in August by @heather.cabot 🍃 💵 l, @christierampone3 ⚽️ 🥅 and @drkristinekeane 🥼🧠, published by @crownpublishing and @grandcentralpub, both imprints of @hachetteus! 📚 #thenewchardonnay #beallinbook
💜🖊#leshneagency is officially on IG! Follow us for all kinds of exciting & breaking book news as we introduce our authors & agents. 📚 #bookstagram #reading #booknerd #literarylife @christierampone3 @drkristinekeane @guysnodgrass @tommysiegel @leslielehr1 @melfaizy @minasamuels @heather.cabot @jesseitzler @julissaarce @dcopaken @randypolumbo @samwalravens @theajmendez @adam.the.creator @harleyaaron_ @turneyduff13 @stevecbald @jillsmokler @daisylewellyn @carmenritawong @jengouldnyc @megzucker #beallinbook #topgunstop10 #ihopethishelps #aboobslife #allthepresidentswomen #runlikeagirl #runlikeagirl365daysayear #thenewchardonnay #livingwiththemonks #someonelikeme #abcsofparenthood #abcsofadulthood #geekgirlrising #crazyismysuperpower #myundergroundamericandream #livingwithaseal #thebuyside #noregretsparenting #scarymommy #deathofpunishment #gettingin #neverpayretailagain #bravehearts
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