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Jim Donovan The Battles of Little Bighorn and The Alamo
Jim has worn many hats in the publishing business. He began his career in publishing in an Austin bookstore in 1981, and moved to Dallas in 1984 to become a buyer for a regional bookstore chain. In 1987 he became a trade book editor at Taylor Publishing; he was senior editor there when he left in 1993. He has also authored several books including, CUSTER AND THE LITTLE BIGHORN (Voyageur Press, 2001) and the recent A TERRIBLE GLORY (Little, Brown, 2008), which spent three weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and was hailed by the Los Angeles Times, as "the last word on the Last Stand." He is currently researching a book on the battle of the Alamo. Jim has guest-lectured and taught seminars on the craft of writing and the business of publishing (and getting published) at several universities and writers' conferences. He lives in Duncanville, Texas, with his wife and daughter. He is a graduate of the University of Texas.
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Jim Donovan is the founder and president of Jim
Donovan Literacy, a literary agency in Dallas,
Texas. Since starting the agency in 1993, he has
sold hundreds of books for dozens of writers,
negotiating publishing contracts with a number
of publishers. He handles both fiction (chiefly
mysteries and thrillers) and a broad range of
non-fiction (primarily American history,
biography, sports, health, popular culture, and
business). His agency also sells film, foreign,
and all subsidiary rights.