Cricket Freeman

After years as a business owner engaged in sales and marketing, Cricket redirected her creativity toward the writing business, freelancing for magazines (more adventure than money) and business clients (more money than adventure). For a time she even slaved daily as the editor-in-chief of a national full-color glossy. As a result, she tends to measure her writing credits by the pound.

In 1991, Cricket intertwined her art education, business experience, and writing skills to establish Possibilities Press to support small book publishers with writing, editing, design, and production services.  Ever the entrepreneur, a decade later she shifted her focus exclusively to literary representation and founded The Christina Pechstein Agency.  In 2004 she saw another fine opportunity to expand her business and her horizons and joined forces with Jeffery McGraw to launch The August Agency, where she operates from its headquarters in Vero Beach, Florida.

Cricket is a popular speaker and instructor at writers conferences because she's managed to be closely involved in every phase of a book's life: from its conception as a tug in the back of a writer's brain through the explosive creative writing of it, to the painful editing, exacting design and printing, then distribution and marketing of the baby. And, yes, she's even felled an oak with an ax.

Jeffery McGraw
 

Jeffery directs the New York operations of The August Agency. He brings to the company a wide range of experience in publishing, with a concentrated background in editorial, publicity, public relations, advertising and promotion, and feature reporting. He has worked for magazine and book publishers large and small, including Soap Opera Weekly, HarperCollins, Harry N. Abrams, and Leisure Publishing.  

Throughout his career he has had the privilege to work with many different types of books - from exquisite art and illustrated coffee table tomes to New York Times bestselling fiction and nonfiction -- and an equally diverse roster of remarkable authors and artists - among them Nancy Bartholomew, Elizabeth Berg, Cathy East Dubowski, Patricia Gaffney, Olivia Goldsmith, Andy Goldsworthy, Al Hirschfeld, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Bill O'Reilly, Joanne Pence, Betty Rollin, Ben Schonzeit, and Hunt Slonem.

Jeffery has an enormous passion for well written melodramas (consider Fannie Hurst's Back Street and Imitation of Life, Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind, or Michael Cunningham's The Hours) and witty comedies-of-manners (think Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s screen play All About Eve). His other favorite areas of publishing interests include political science, history, biography, self-help, health, lifestyle, and the social sciences, et al.

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