Peter Lampack Agency Inc.
Peter Lampack Agency Inc.
551 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1613
New York, NY 10176-0187
Telephone: (212) 687-9106
Fax: (212) 687-9109
e-mail:lampackag@verizon.net
I couldn't find a web site.
What caught my attention on this one is that included among his
agents was Andrew Lampack who was listed as handling new writers.
This agency specializes in commercial fiction, non fiction by
recognized experts. Actively seeking literary and commercial fiction,
thrillers, mysteries, suspense, psychological thrillers. Does not want horror,
western, romance, science fiction, academic materials.
Query with SASE. No unsolicited manuscripts. Accepts e-mail
queries. Responds in 2 months to queries, 3 months to manuscripts.
Advice: Submit only your best work for consideration. Have a very
specific agenda of goals you wiosh your agent to accomplish for you. Provide
the agent with a comprehensive statement of your credentials, educational and
professional.
He is listed as a player with 18 clients by Agent Research
Not listed with AAR
CLIENTS (many bestsellers)
Clive Cussler ÒTrojan OddesseyÓ ÒSaharaÓ "Black Wind"
Martha Grimes ÒThe Winds of Change,Ó The latest-19th- in the
critically acclaimed Richard Jury series from the New York Times bestselling
author of The Grave Maurice and The Blue Last. Agent, Peter Lampack. 8-city
author tour. (Aug. 19)" Publishers Weekly (Copyright 2004 Reed Business
Information, Inc.)
Ted Bell ÒAssassinÓ Alex Hawke series (Atria Books)
ÒSummer of StormsÓ Judith Kelman , novel with parallels to the Jon
Benet Ramsey case. AlsoÓ Flyaway Home, After the Fall.
Warren Adler ÒThe War of the RosesÓ
Agency established 1977
Writers Services says: Handles commercial fiction: male action and
adventure, contemporary relationships, historical, mysteries and suspense,
literary fiction; also non-fiction from recognised experts in a given field,
plus biographies, autobiographies. Also handles theatrical, motion picture, and
TV rights from book properties. No original scripts or screenplays, series or
episodic material. Best approach by letter in first instance. No reply without
s.a.e. `We will respond within three weeks and invite the submission of
manuscripts which we would like to examine.' No reading fee. No unsolicited
mss.
Commission Home & Dramatic 15%; Translation & UK 20%.
Writers Digest 2005 Guide to Literary Agents lists him as having
50 clients, represents 80 percent novels and 20 percent nonfiction, 10 percent
of clients are listed as new.
FROM FILM AND TELEVISION NEWS AT http://www.numa.net/film_and_television.html
The only Clive Cussler novel made into a movie to date has been
RAISE THE TITANIC! The movie fell so far below Clive's expectations that he has
consistently turned down offers to make another movie. At one time he asked
that a news release be issued describing the fact that he had just turned down
$10 million for the movie rights to his books! Liz Smith was one of the few
reporters that ran the story. Many other reporters refused to run the story
because they could not believe anyone would turn down that amount of money.
Clive has always said that he would not make another movie again unless he was
given casting, director and script approval. Thanks to Clive's wonderful agent,
Peter Lampack, Crusader Entertainment met his terms and SAHARA will be released
in 2004. You can still rent RAISE THE TITANIC! If you have never read a Dirk
Pitt¨ novel perhaps you will enjoy the film.
No warning on P&E
Publisher's Weekly
About halfway through this rip-snorting adventure thriller, a
"white-haired man" rescues heroes Dirk Pitt Jr. and his sister,
Summer, from death by drowning. That man is revealed to be author Cussler
(Trojan Odyssey, etc.), reminding Dirk of "an older version of his own
father," legendary oceanographer Dirk Pitt, hero of Cussler's previous
novels. Just as the primary action baton is passed in this tale from Pitt Sr.
to Jr., readers may note that Cussler's coauthor is his own son. But even if
Cussler is beginning to pass on his writing baton, he's doing so with panache:
thriller fans will revel in this action-packed yarn of land- and sea-based
derring-do stuffed with technical details on matters from biochemical weapons
"chimeras" to rocket launches. The villain is a South Korean
industrialist working for the North Koreans with an eye toward unifying Korea
by ridding the country of American troops, allowing for an invasion of the
South. His plan is to aim a sea-borne rocket filled with a combo of deadly viruses
at Los Angeles, with clues laying blame on Japanese terrorists, thus
distracting America while the North makes its move. But villain and modus
operandi matter less than the series of exciting hairbreadth escapes wrought by
Dirks Jr. and Sr. and Summer-including Dirk Sr.'s escape from being poached
alive in a minisub trapped underneath massive rocket boosters spewing an
inferno of flames. There's a slight, nasty gloss of "yellow peril" on
the villain and his actions, and it's only the Americans who greet likely death
with a grin and a quip, but that's a minor knock on some major entertainment
that's bound toward the top of the charts. Agent, Peter Lampack. 750,000 first
printing. (Dec.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
Kirkus Reviews
Eighteenth Dirk Pitt underwater sea-thriller (Trojan Odyssey, 2003, etc.), now co-authored with Cussler's son Dirk. The year 2007 finds the aging Pitt still in charge of NUMA (National Underwater and Marine Agency), but the story begins with the usual strong historical sea-mystery, this time set in 1944. The Japanese navy knows that defeat lies ahead after the sinking of the bulk of its fleet at the Battle of Leyte Gulf. But top planners have come upon a horrific biological agent developed in China; they plan to bomb the US West Coast and devastate so much of the population that America will call for war's end. The delivery system for this killer agent rests on Japan's two largest submarines, which house two disassembled dive-bombers now converted into floatplanes that can be reassembled when the coast is reached and launched from catapults down the center of the bow. The first submarine is sunk, however, when rammed by a US destroyer off the coast of Washington. Enter the new head of NUMA, Dirk Pitt the elder, who is helped by his young son, Dirk Pitt, a marine engineer, and a marine biologist named Summer. Later the story leaps forward to the future-present. A father-son action thriller penned by a father-son team that more than maintains the supercharged Cusslerian danger. Don't stir that silt!First printing of 750,000. Agent: Peter Lampack/Peter Lampack Agency