Subject: Re: follow up notes and next steps
From: "Eric Schwerin" <[email-masked]>
To: "Annie Tomasini" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>, "Alexander Snyder-Mackler" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 17:49:32 -0400

I spoke with Howard Yoon, the agent I know.  Annie/Alex - Howard is with RossYoon here in DC and has a focus on non-fiction.

Here’s some of what he said:

1) He thinks that the book is a fantastic idea but it has to be done the right way.  I won’t go into depth on his ideas but they seem in line with what you say you want to do.
2) He knows Paul Whitlatch well and says he is a good young editor.
3) He said Hachette as its own imprint is relatively new and just launched.  He said most new imprints try and do 40-70 books a year in their first year in order to make a name for themselves and many times those books aren’t well thought out.  
4) He felt the Gabrielle Giffords book was not the book she should have written (too gun control focused and not personal enough) and said it didn’t sell well.  She used a ghost writer from the Washingtonian that Howard knows well. 
5) He thought that if you wrote the book Howard believes you can write there won’t be a problem getting any publisher to buy it so you shouldn’t feel like this will be the only opportunity. 
6) To be clear, he didn’t dislike Paul - said he’s a good guy and a good editor - just under pressure from a business point of view to get titles out there in their “start-up” phase.

Howard is around next week and I am going to arrange time for him to come by and see you and talk further.

Eric D. Schwerin
Rosemont Seneca Partners, LLC
1010 Wisconsin Ave., NW
Suite 705
Washington, DC 20007
(202) 333-1880
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> On Jun 12, 2015, at 4:36 PM, Annie Tomasini <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> took some high level notes and captured next steps here.
> <RHB_BookBrainstorm_June 12.docx>