Agent Speed Date

The idea of speed dating is that you get 10 minutes to sit down with a prospective date and get to know them. Since we're asking our clients to speed date with you, we thought it only fair that we participate too. In that spirit, we present Agent Speed Date. A quick 10 minutes for you to get to know us. Today we'd like you to meet Jessica Faust.


BookEnds Agent Speed Date

Name: Jessica Faust

Speed date bio: Proud owner, President, and Literary Agent of BookEnds, where I reign (or so I pretend) over an incredibly talented bunch of agents and represent some of the greatest authors ever.

About Me

Real Name or Pseudonym: It’s my real name.

Currently Reading: Pride and Prejudice and Wizard of Oz

Next on Your Reading List: Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator and Girl with the Steel Corset

Facebook or Twitter:
Facebook: Jessica Faust BookEnds
Twitter: BookEndsJessica

Three authors living or dead you would want to have dinner with:
**these are the hardest questions for me.
Edith Wharton
Sarah Addison Allen
Julie Child—I think mostly for the cooking

Three characters you would want to have dinner with:
Jo March
Spenser
—this is so hard. I have no clue on a #3. Should it be Anne of Green Gables or Hannibal Lector? Or . . . ? I think I’m spending far too much time on this.

Jetsetter or armchair traveler:
jetsetter

Glass ½ full or ½ empty:
½ full and then some

Tea or Coffee:
Too much coffee

Ereader or Print book:
A little of both

Morning person or Evening person:
Morning (or middle of the night, depending on how you look at it)

Working soundtrack:
Usually nothing but my typing fingers