Alice Peck alicepeck@alicepeck.com    (917) 494-7259 SpecialtiesLiterary and popular fiction: first novels, mysteries, thrillers, young adult, and fantasy; book proposals; nonfiction: memoir/autobiography, narrative, religion and spirituality, social issues. 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), Glen Scott Allen’s Shadow War (St. Martin’s Press), 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), Sue Bailey and Carmen Flowers (Grave Expectations, Cider Mill Press), and Margaret Mackenzie (Courting the Media, Praeger) with their nonfiction proposals. Many clients return for help with their second and even fourth books, including Nicole Bokat, Elaine Brown, Laurence Klavan, Shel Leanne (Say It Like Obama), Hannah Seligson, Susan McBride (Blue Blood), Jack Ross, and Kim Powers (Truman in Kansas).

Alice worked in film and television for over fifteen years acquiring books and guiding writers as they developed them into scripts. Her projects include the Academy Award–nominated A Few Good Men by Aaron Sorkin (TriStar), Dune by Frank Herbert (SciFi Channel), A Season in Purgatory by Dominick Dunne (CBS), JFK: Reckless Youth by Nigel Hamilton (ABC), as well as story-producing documentary, unscripted, and reality series for AMC, Bravo, and MTV.

Memoirs and books exploring spirituality are her special favorites, as are mysteries. She is author and editor of the anthologies Bread, Body, Spirit and Next to Godliness (Skylight Paths).

Alice lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband, son, three cats, one lizard, and three frogs.