Rick Richter

Richter has recently represented (or co-represented) several NY Times bestsellers including I SURVIVED CAPITALISM AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY T-SHIRT by Madeleine Pendleton, TRICK OR TREAT ON SCARY STREET by *NSYNC’s Lance Bass, SPOOKY LAKES by Geo Rutherford, SAFE AND SOUND by Mercury Stardust (a #1 Bookscan bestseller), MAX EINSTEIN by James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein, THE BIG BANG THEORY: The Definitive, Inside Story of the Epic Hit Series, THE OFFICE - The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s, TOUGH AS THEY COME by Travis Mills and Marcus Brotherton, GETTING BACK TO HAPPY by Marc and Angel Chernoff, I AM ENOUGH by Grace Beyers, and BECOMING MUHAMMAD ALI (by James Patterson and Kwame Alexander). He counts celebrated journalists from The New York Times, Washington Post, People Magazine, The Rolling Stone, Hollywood Reporter, and Glamour - among other major publications - as clients.  

Richter spent over a decade on Simon & Schuster’s Executive Committee as President, Children’s Book Division, and President of Sales and Distribution, and brings a wide range of publishing and media expertise to his role at Aevitas. His areas of interest include self-help, pop culture and music, memoir, history, science, politics and social justice, narrative food writing, and faith. He is also interested in select true crime, commercial fiction, and psychological/horror thrillers and diverse voices in all categories. He has extensive experience in children’s books, having overseen two of the nation’s top children’s publishers: Simon & Schuster and Candlewick Press and represents illustrators and children’s authors writing fiction and non-fiction from picture books through YA.

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