Celeste Fine

Celeste joined Folio in its founding year and is Senior Vice President. She represents commercial nonfiction, from prescriptive and practical to narrative and memoir, as well as a select list of fiction and YA. She is particularly looking for expert and company clients with strong national platforms or the potential to build strong national platforms, as well as debut fiction and YA authors with MFA’s.

Celeste is recognized for partnering with her clients to support their long-term professional and personal goals and to incorporate their books into an overall brand strategy. She has high expectations of herself and her clients and thoughtfully manages her clients’ careers, which includes:

• Brainstorming and crafting the most marketable book concepts.
• Editing (sometimes writing) and designing the most successful book proposals and manuscripts.
• Pitching top editors in each category.
• Negotiating the best deals with the best publishers.
• Building effective publishing teams, which can include outside publicists, web designers, videographers, etc.
• Pursuing and leveraging additional publicity, marketing, and revenue opportunities.
• Coordinating the publishing process and the publishing team.

Some of her recent deals include:

• HOME MADE SIMPLE by the world's #1 maker of household products Procter & Gamble. A definitive, home bible that gives readers simple solutions for easy living, based on the P&G consumer relationship marketing brand Home Made Simple that reaches over 12.5 million subscribers online and the TLC partnering television show (St. Martin’s, September 2010).
• THAT'S A WRAP by celebrity fitness and nutrition expert Nancy Kennedy. Hollywood-insider diet tips along with 100 easy and delicious wrap recipes for on-the-go (Rodale, Spring 2011).
• THE SMALL CHANGE DIET by Registered Dietitian Keri Gans. 10 Small Change Plans that create lasting weight loss by training readers to change 10 core behaviors through small, manageable steps (Gallery, Spring 2011).
• MAKE LOVE LIKE A ROMANCE WRITER by Amelia Grey. Romance writer Amelia Grey shares real life love stories of bestselling romance writers in their own words (HCI, February 2011).
• ALPHA BITCH: How to Get Everything You Want Without Being an Alpha Bitch by Law of Attraction Coach Christy Whitman and Psychotherapist Rebecca Grado. How to stop controlling, competing, comparing, and cowering to really get what you want in the dog-eat-dog worlds of family, relationships, and business. (BenBella, 2011)
• RED LIGHT, GREEN LIGHT, EAT RIGHT: The Food Solution That Lets Kids Be Kids by Joanna Dolgoff, MD. A family nutrition and weight loss program, which enjoys a 96% success rate and categorizes foods by the colors of the traffic light (Rodale, January 2010).
• THE DIVVIES BAKERY COOKBOOK: No Nuts, No Eggs, No Dairy, Just Delicious by Lori Sandler, Founder and Owner of Divvies. An irresistible cookbook devoted to baking safe-to-eat, tasty treats for people with life-threatening allergies (St. Martin’s Press, August 2010).
• THE NEW ME DIET: Eat More, Work Out Less, and Actually Lose Weight While You Rest by Jade and Keoni Teta, ND, CSCS. A progressive diet plan based on the cutting-edge science of hormonal fat burning that shows readers how to lose fat and feel great by working out less and eating more (HarperCollins, April 2010).
• DREAM SO BIG: A Parent's Guide to Helping Your Child Believe and Achieve by father and former manager to Raven-Symoné Christopher Pearman. Seven Dream Catchers to heighten parents’ confidence and give them the practical tools to help their children find themselves, grow, and exceed their wildest dreams (Adams Media, May 2010).
• THE COLOR OF STYLE by Emmy-Nominated Stylist David Zyla. A unique guide that shows readers how to become their own personal style icon based on their, eyes, hair, palms, and wrists (Dutton, February 2010).
• ONCE A WARRIOR, ALWAYS A WARRIOR: Navigating the Transition from Combat to Home including Combat Stress, PTSD, and mTBI by recently retired Director of the Division of Psychiatry and Neurosciences at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Charles W. Hoge, M.D., Colonel, U.S. Army. LAND NAV skills for veterans and family members dealing with Combat PTSD (GPP Life, March 2010).
• PREGNANT AND GORGEOUS by Manhattan nutritionist and author Esther Blum. Gorgeous nutritional advice for pregnancy (Chronicle, Spring 2011).
• PRIME FOR LIFE: Functional Fitness for Ageless Living by Canyon Ranch Fitness Director Randy Raugh. A fitness plan for boomers that prevents injury, heals damage, achieves better results, and eliminates pain (Rodale, June 2009).
• ISLAND OF THE SWANS by bestselling author Ciji Ware. Historical fiction in the vein of Georgette Heyer (Sourcebooks, February 2010).

Celeste is also the Director of Subsidiary Rights and manages the foreign rights for all Folio clients. She has dealt directly in all major foreign territories and regularly attends the London and Frankfurt Book Fairs.

Before joining Folio, Celeste worked at Trident Media Group and Vigliano Associates. She managed rights for commercial bestsellers and literary award winners alike, ranging from Bob Greene, Courtney Love, Scott Weiland, and Anthony Keidis, to Marilynn Robinson, Michael Ondaatje, Dean Koontz, and Janet Evanovich. Celeste graduated magna cum laude in Government from Harvard University. She is proficient in Italian, Spanish, and French and has lived and worked in Italy and the Netherlands. Celeste is from Southern California.

How to submit your queries:

Celeste only accepts green queries, which means email only. She will not respond to hard copy queries. Her response time is usually within 4 weeks.