Cecilia de la Campa is the Executive Director, Global Licensing and Domestic Partnerships at Writers House, a leading full-service literary agency in New York with hundreds of bestselling and award-winning clients. Sheoversees the agency’s global licensing department as well as all domestic/media rights channels including audio, film & television, theatre, and educational reprint licensing. Cecilia attends the major international book fairs each year and has taken part in various global conferences including the Asian Festival of Children’s Content (AFCC) and the historic US Publishing Mission to Cuba in 2016 lead by Publishers Weekly. She’s a regular speaker on industry panels, and has presented at events hosted by Global Kids Connect, New York Rights Fair, Bologna Children’s Book Fair, the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA). She is also recurring guest lecturer at the Columbia Publishing Course and sits on the board of the Women’s Media Group (WMG). A graduate of Williams College in Massachusetts, Cecilia worked for several years at Simon & Schuster before joining Writers House in 2009.
Founded in 1973, Writers House is one of the largest literary agencies in the world and takes pride in providing an extraordinary amount of individual client attention. Writers House has played a critical role in developing the careers of hundreds of novelists, non-fiction authors, and illustrators across all genres and age-ranges. We believe in offering our clients not only our expertise in negotiating contracts, but in contributing to all phases of the editorial and publishing processes. Our goal is to maximize the value of our clients’ work by providing hands-on editorial and marketing advice, as well as leading the way in branding, licensing, and selling foreign, film/TV, audio, dramatic and serial rights. With over 18 agents and several rising junior agents, we have an extraordinary list of clients and estates including globally bestselling authors like Nora Roberts, Jonathan Franzen, Neil Gaiman, Rachel Renee Russell, John Green, and Dav Pilkey and award-winning writers including Kelly Barnhill, Matt de la Pena, Ruta Sepetys, Sharon Creech, Nell Zink, Octavia Butler, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
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