Joan Timberlake and George Oliver
My blogs
| Industry | Publishing |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Literary Agents |
| Location | Morgantown/Martinsburg, West Virginia, United States |
| Introduction | We're a complementary team—-law and linguistics, fiction and non-fiction, aggressive and nurturing. More specifically, Joan: "I'm a Boomer, recovering hippy/recovering corporate writer/editor, Jewish (don't let my name fool you), ex-professional musican (funk and jazz tenor sax), and horse geek. ———George: "I'm a foodie and grammarphile (not a grammaphone, although I'm old enough). An Ur-boomer, recovering hippy and Catholic, and all around swell guy." |
| Interests | Joan: Mysteries, reading, horses, law, writing, music, country living and hobby farms, cooking, organic food, movies, travel ———George: Food & cooking, grammar & editing, popular science, homegrown tomatoes, creative thinking, Apple trumping PC. |
| Favorite movies | Joan:To Kill a Mockingbird, The Life and Times of Harvey Milk, All Harry Potters, Julie and Julia, All Wallace and Gromit, Little Miss Sunshine, Everything is Illuminated, Desert Hearts, Brokeback Mountain, Madagascar, Hidalgo, Legally Blond, Pulp Fiction, Billie Elliot, The Perfect Storm, Bad Girls, Shirley Valentine ———George: Cabaret, It’s a Wonderful Life,Strictly Ballroom, Like Water for Chocolate, Casablanca,The Wizard of Oz,Strangers on a Train,Brazil,Singing in the Rai,The Matrix,Some Like It Hot,Time Bandits,Yentl,Star Wars,The Full Monty,Dinner at Eight,Forbidden Planet,Love in the Ruins, Allegro non Troppo |
| Favorite music | Joan: Classical, Opera, jazz, funk, rock, reggae, some hip-hop, Motown, Oldies, Irish, K.D. Lang ———George: Dixieland Jazz, Ralph Vaughn Williams, Donna Summer, Cadillac Sky, Joan Baez |
| Favorite books | Joan:To Kill a Mockingbird, Shipping News, Hit by a Farm, People of the Book, the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Our Daily Meds, America Fooled, Einstein's Dreams, Hillerman, Sue Grafton, Joan Hess, Travels With Charlie, Sula, The Color Purple, Can Lit, George Elliot, Victorian Lit. Mrs. Gaskell, Bessie Head, the Brontes ———George: The Omnivore's Dilemma, Grapes of Wrath, Sometimes a Great Notion, A Year in Provence, The Name of the Rose, Language and Responsibility, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Einstein's Dreams, the OED |