Andrew Zack has spent more the twenty years in publishing in editorial, subsidiary rights, literary representation, and author coaching. He has worked in-house at Simon & Schuster, Warner Books, Donald I. Fine, and the Berkley Publishing Group, and freelanced for several other publishers. He began his career as an agent with SCG, before launching his own firm in 1996.

He currently has two publishing firms, The Zack Company, Inc. (www.zackcompany.com), a full-service literary agency representing authors of fiction and nonfiction, and Author Coach, LLC (www.authorcoach.com), which provides editorial services and career guidance to aspiring authors.

Originally from Massachusetts, Andrew graduated from the University of Rochester with a degree in English and Political Science. He currently resides in San Diego, but misses New York City daily.

Blog Entries by Andrew Zack

In Search of Reading Role Models

1 Comments | Posted November 14, 2009 | 11:14 AM (EST)


As a father, I regularly look to my toddler son and ponder how will I share with him some of the experiences I so fondly remember from my own childhood:  rainy days building forts out of TV tables and blankets, snowy nights building model planes and tanks, and Saturday afternoons...

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Maintaining Your Writing Career

1 Comments | Posted October 28, 2009 | 04:43 PM (EST)


When I bought my first home, it was a co-op apartment in New York City. Got a leak? Call the super. Bulb out in the hallway? Call the super.

Then I moved to the suburbs in San Diego, CA. Big, new house, two new cars in the garage, and a...

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