Literary agent Madeleine Morel has made a career out of representing ghostwriters and collaborators—and only ghostwriters and collaborators. Through her Manhattan-based agency 2M Communications, she has successfully paired her clients with top celebrities, thought leaders, health and fitness experts, business executives and change agents on hundreds of book projects, including more than 60 New York Times bestsellers. She sees herself as a kind of "literary matchmaker," and publishers are inclined to agree. They regularly seek her out when they're looking for the "right" writer to capture a celebrity author's voice or vision.

"It's the best of times and the worst of times," Madeleine says of the current climate for her clients. "It's the best because there's more collaborative work out there than ever, and it's the worst because there are more collaborators out there than ever." Join us for a fun, freewheeling conversation on what it takes to write in service of someone else, and how publishers go about putting the famous and infamous together with talented storytellers in pursuit of the next bestseller.

Learn more about Madeleine Morel:

• 2M Communications website
• LinkedIn

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