Alice Peck
alicepeck@alicepeck.com (917)
494-7259
SpecialtiesNonfiction:
memoir/autobiography, narrative, religion and spirituality, social issues; anthologies;
literary and popular fiction: first novels, mysteries and thrillers; book proposals.
Profile
Authors who work with Alice find her to be supportive, sensitive, and thorough.
She has edited many first novels, including The Hearse You Came in On (Hyperion)
by Tim Cockey (Richard Hawke), Slim Lambright’s The Justus Girls (HarperCollins),
Elaine M. Brown’s Lemon City (Random House), Laurence Klavan’s The
Cutting Room (Ballantine), and Jack Ross’s Requiem (Hutchinson/Random
House UK). Alice also guided first-time writers Hannah Seligson (New Girl
on the Job, Citadel) and Margaret Mackenzie (Courting the Media,
Praeger) with their nonfiction proposals. Many clients return
for help with their second and even third books, including Elaine Brown (Playing by the Rules), Hannah Seligson (A Little Bit Married), Susan McBride (Blue Blood), and Kim Powers (Truman in Kansas).
Alice worked in film and television for over fifteen years, acquiring books and helping writers develop them into scripts. Her projects include Dune by Frank Herbert (SciFi Channel miniseries), A Season in Purgatory by Dominick Dunne (CBS miniseries), JFK: Reckless Youth by Nigel Hamilton (ABC miniseries), as well as story producing documentary and reality series for MTV and Bravo. As David Brown’s director of development, Alice acquired the Academy Award–nominated A Few Good Men by Aaron Sorkin for film and stage.
Memoirs and books exploring spirituality are her special favorites, as are mysteries. She is author and editor of the anthology Next to Godliness: Finding the Sacred in Housekeeping (Skylight Paths).
Alice lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband, son, three cats, one lizard, and three frogs.