Gordon Warnock

About Me

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Gordon Warnock is a founding partner at Foreword Literary, bringing years of experience as a senior literary agent, marketing director and editor for independent publishers, freelance publishing consultant, and college-level writing tutor. He frequently teaches workshops and gives keynote speeches at conferences and MFA programs nationwide. He is an honors graduate of CSUS with a B.A. in Creative and Professional Writing.

Specific genres Gordon represents include the following:

Non-fiction:

• Memoir (Adult, New Adult, YA, Graphic)
• Cookbooks and Food Studies
• Political and Current Events
• Pop-Science
• Pop-Culture
• Self-Help
• How-To
• Humor
• Pets
• Business

Fiction:

• High-Concept Commercial Fiction
• Literary Fiction
• New Adult
• YA (Think Ellen Hopkins and Jay Asher, not Stephenie Meyer)
• Graphic Novels

Not looking for:

• Religious Fiction
• Genre Fiction (Western, Romance, Sci-Fi)
• Legal Thrillers
• New Age
• Children’s and MG
• Novellas
• Screenplays
• Collections of essays, short fiction, or poetry

Why do you write?

With a zest for fresh, new voices and a deep love of the classics, Gordon actively seeks out both the timely and the timeless. In that spirit, he establishes involved, long-term working relationships with talented and dedicated authors of many genres.

Any favorite authors? Books?

I tend to enjoy reading those who don't do as they're told: Lance Olsen, Debra Di Blasi, Rebecca Brown, Brian Evenson, Daniel Grandbois, Robin Martin, Tanya Chernov, Kelly Davio and several others you haven't heard of yet. I also enjoy the classics, the romantics, the lost generation and the beats.

A few of my favorite books (in no particular order) are: The Glass Castle, Kitchen Confidential, The Garden of Eden, World War Z, Real Ultimate Power, Unlucky Lucky Days, Nietzsche’s Kisses, American Romances and The Glass Castle.