Joel E. Fishman Email & Phone Number

Kennett Square (Philadelphia And Wilmington, De Region)

Verbitrage is me. Since its founding Verbitrage has produced nine published books, five feature film scripts, and three television pilot scripts. I also offer consulting services for business messaging and corporate communication.Works:• Scripts • A Free State — feature film script (historical) • Good Citizen — feature film script (drama) • The Romans of Bleecker Street — TV pilot script (drama) • The Doctor Will Kill You Now — TV pilot script (dramedy) • The Flock — TV pilot script (comedy) • The Wisest Wiseguy — feature film script (comedy)• Books • The Prisoner of Hell Gate as Dana I. Wolff (horror: Picador USA) • Dynamite: A Concise History of the NYPD Bomb Squad (nonfiction: Verbitrage) • Bomb Squad NYC series (police procedural thrillers: Verbitrage) • A Danger to Himself and Others • Death March • The Long Black Hand • Blast from the Past • The Dark Pool (financial thriller: Stone House) • Cadaver Blues (mystery: Stone House) — serialized on The Nervous Breakdown • Primacy (animal rights thriller: Verbitrage) • Life Is a Series of Presentations (co-author, nonfiction: Simon & Schuster/Fireside) • All I Need to Know I Learned from My Horse (co-author, nonfiction: Doubleday/Main Street)

Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, United States

North Salem, Ny

• Helped grow this retail horse supplies operation from $100,000 to $2 million inrevenue• Managed a dozen associates• Negotiated successful sale of the company to a regional chain

Greater New York City Area

• Created one of the first online marketplaces for ancillary rights to books • Raised more than $1 million• Managed a tight-knit group of executives• Oversaw an orderly dissolution after the global dot-com crash

• Represented several dozen author and celebrity clients• Negotiated deals with publishers large and small• Clients included journalists from: The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times,U.S. News & World Report, Business Week, The Los Angeles Times, The San JoseMercury-News, The St. Petersburg Times and others• Sold rights to books by Howard Schultz (Starbucks) and Kweisi Mfume(Congressional Black Caucus) in major deals, among others• Negotiated sale of the firm to a larger literary agency

• Acquired publishing rights from agents and directly from authors• Primary liaison with more than two dozen authors and agents per year • Shepherded a dozen books a year to market• Edited all book projects I managed

New York, Ny

• Wrote articles for Non-Foods Merchandising magazine• Researched all relevant aspects of the supermarket business• Interviewed and profiled major players in the industry

Masters, Environmental Studies

Concentration in Sustainability

B.A., English