Job Post: Senior Agent
Idea Architects Senior Agent Location Flexible ABOUT THIS POSITION: Idea Architects seeks a mission-driven Senior Agent with a special instinct for transformative stories, a track record of working with high-level authors, a keen eye for incredible writing, and a passion for world-changing ideas. ABOUT IDEA ARCHITECTS: Idea Architects is a unique and thriving literary agency that helps visionaries create a wiser, healthier, and more just world one book at a time. With 16 New York Times...
Prescribing You Your Best Rest
Hi Friends, We are so excited to share that Dr. Aric Prather’s The Sleep Prescription: Seven Days to Unlocking Your Best Rest is out today! The next in the New York Times bestselling Seven Day Series, it offers a simple yet powerful plan to improve your sleep in just seven days. Sleep is essential to our survival. But why is something that should be instinctual and intuitive often so difficult? By teaching you the techniques he uses for patients at one of the world’s most successful sleep...
A Journey to the Great African Sea Forest
Today we are so happy to share with you a best-in-class photographic picture book for your little ones, all about the wonders of the sea. From Craig Foster and Ross Frylinck—the creators of the Oscar-winning documentary My Octopus Teacher, and Underwater Wild—comes A Journey Under The Sea, an ode to the mysteries of the ocean, the animals who share our planet, and the healing power of nature. A Journey Under the Sea is out today! Teaching our kids about their connection to the natural world...
Your Love Prescription is Ready
Our dear friends and bestselling authors doctors John and Julie Gottman have been studying love for over fifty years. They are famous for their ability to observe a couple for fifteen minutes and predict, with 90% accuracy, whether they’ll stay together or not—and even if that union will be a happy one. In their five decades of research, the Gottmans found that the same questions came up again and again: What makes love last? Why does one couple stay together forever, while another falls...
A Little Gift of Joy
Hi Friends, We hope you are having a wonderful end of summer. As we turn to fall, we want to help you and your little ones find a way to hold on to that feeling of sunshine, no matter the weather.We are delighted to share with you a picture book that His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu created before Arch left us in December: The Little Book of Joy, publishing on September 27th. The Book of Joy had tremendous impact, reaching millions of readers around the world and having...
Nine Summer Reads from Idea Architects
The Sun Does Shine for Young Readers
Hi Friends, Anthony Ray Hinton spent 30 years on Death Row as an innocent man—he was released in 2015 thanks to the tireless work of his attorney, Bryan Stevenson. I met Ray (as his friends call him) in 2016 when I began working with him as his collaborative writer for The Sun Does Shine, which became a New York Times Bestseller, reached #1 on Amazon, and was a 2018 Oprah Book Club pick. Ray has become a big part of our IA family, and is someone I personally admire, love, respect, and never...
Your Age Beliefs Can Change Your Life
Hi Friends, Dr. Becca Levy’s closeness with her lively and whip smart grandmother made her wonder—why do some people seem to grow in vitality as they age and others do not? What she found from her world-leading research at Yale astonished her and transforms what we know about aging: our age beliefs can add or detract up to seven years from our lives. Dr. Levy is one of the world’s leading experts and a pioneer in the field of aging, and her revolutionary new book that publishes...
COLLABORATIVE LEADERSHIP FOR THE FUTURE AT IDEA ARCHITECTS
IDEA ARCHITECTS (IA), a leading non-fiction US literary agency is thrilled to announce that after twenty years as CEO, Doug Abrams will be transitioning to President and Founder, focusing on overall growth and strategy for the agency, strategic partnerships, film and television development, and book and film writing. Lara Love Hardin (COO) and Rachel Neumann (CSO) have been promoted to Co-CEOs, and will be bringing their decades of agenting and publishing experience to leading and growing the...