FROM: Laura Belt, INTERNET:lbelt@earthlink.net TO: Calvin Smith, 102226,2127 DATE: 10/24/96 9:01 AM Re: Literary Agent Sender: lbelt@earthlink.net Received: from serbia.it.earthlink.net (serbia-c.it.earthlink.net [204.250.46.125]) by hil-img-2.compuserve.com (8.6.10/5.950515) id LAA25034; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 11:52:10 -0400 Dear Mr. Smith, I am writing to ask if you would be interested in writing a book. I noticed that you are a Sysop on the MS Access forum on CompuServe, and thought that you would be a good computer book author (if you're not already). Several publishers that we work closely with are actively looking for experts like you to write books on Access. To introduce ourselves, we are literary agents. Over the past 30 years we and our affiliate agency in New York City have been responsible for literally hundreds of books, many of them national bestsellers. We are also the leading literary agency for computer books. We have represented Dan Rather, Mike Wallace, Dick Clark, Helen Hayes, Ronald Reagan, Nancy Reagan, Senator Gary Hart, Senator William Cohen, Jeff Smith (The Frugal Gourmet), Mr. Food, Larry King, Mickey Mantle, Nolan Ryan, Pel=E9, Phil Donahue, Howard Cosell, Robert MacNeil, Sally Jesse Raphael, Steve Allen, Tom Shales, Tom Seaver, Willard Scott and others. Some of the computer books we have represented include: Developing Applications with Clarion for Windows, The Computer Support Directory, Kidnet: The Kids' Guide to Cyberspace, Dr. Tom Linden's Guide to On Line Medicine, The Complete Guide To The World Wide Web on Prodigy, LotusNotes Certification Study Guide, The McGraw-Hill Internet Training Manual, The McGraw-Hill Web Training Guide, Enhancing Your Own Netscape Web Pages, Managing and Tuning Distributed Databases, VRML Programming, Internet Programming with Java, Intranets, Programming HTML, Advanced Java Programming, A Java Programming Series, The African-American Resource Guide to the Internet, Moving Worlds, Developing Web Pages With Hot Metal Pro 2.0, The Common Sense Guide to Computer Security, and others. We would be very interested in seeing a proposal on MS Access, or perhaps you know of a topic that you feel is not adequately covered in by books already on the market. (I would be happy to email you a short guide to writing computer book proposals.) Please feel free to email me at lbelt@earthlink.net, or call or write me at the address listed below. Sincerely, Laura Belt Adler & Robin Books Literary Agency 3000 Connecticut Avenue, N.W. Suite 317 Washington, DC 20008 tel 1: (301) 652-3414 tel 2 :(202) 986-9275 fax: (202) 986-9485 lbelt@earthlink.net http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/adlerbooks/