Bianca with Vicki Willden-Lebrecht On the Bright Agency

The Children's Book Review: Growing Readers Podcast

In this episode, Vicki Willden-Lebrecht, founder and CEO of Bright Agency—an agency set up to do more than represent artists and authors. Beginning with children's publishing, Vicki founded Bright in 2003 and nurtured it into a thriving international creative management agency around the globe. The artists and clients of Bright work across Publishing, Illustration, Greetings & Gifts, Film and TV, and Licensing—giving the work they create more commercial potential and providing artists more opportunities.

Vicki is a born entrepreneur with an exceptional talent for generating new business and riding the cutting edge of opportunity. Her original thinking, dynamic leadership, and life-long dedication to artist care are the bedrock of Bright's exceptional commercial and creative success.

Resources:

• https://thebrightagency.com
• https://www.rocketahead.org/

Discussion Topics:

• Nurturing a publishing agency into a thriving creative management agency.
• Insight into what agents and publishers seek in new author and illustrator talent.
• Do's and don'ts for new talent seeking an agent.
• Vicki talks about her new non-profit organization Rocket Ahead.

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