Jim Donovan is the founder and president of Jim Donovan Literary, a literary agency in Dallas, Texas. Since starting the agency in 1993, he has sold hundreds of books, negotiating publishing contracts with the Big Five NYC publishers and many others. He handles both fiction (chiefly mysteries and thrillers) and nonfiction (American history, biography, military, popular culture, and general narrative nonfiction).His agency also sells film, foreign, and all subsidiary rights. Many of the books he’s represented have been optioned or sold for film. THE JUNCTION BOYS, by Jim Dent, was made into an HBO movie, and film rights to the same author's TWELVE MIGHTY ORPHANS have also been sold. AMERICAN BRUTUS, by Michael Kauffman, was optioned by David Simon, the producer of the award-winning series THE WIRE. In 2013, the New York Times bestseller MANSON by Jeff Guinn was optioned by Sony Entertainment for a limited TV series, as was SHOT ALL TO HELL by Mark Gardner. Other books that have recently been optioned for film/TV include THE LAST GUNFIGHT and GO DOWN TOGETHER by Jeff Guinn, and dozens of others.Jim is also the published author of several books, including CUSTER AND THE LITTLE BIGHORN (Voyageur Press, 2001); the bestselling A TERRIBLE GLORY: Custer and the Little Bighorn--the Last Great Battle of the American West (Little, Brown, 2008); and THE BLOOD OF HEROES: The 13-Day Struggle for the Alamo--and the Sacrifice That Forged a Nation (Little, Brown, 2012). Jim regularly speaks on these subjects, and he has guest-lectured and taught seminars on the craft of writing and the business of publishing (and getting published) at universities and writers’ conferences. He lives in Dallas, Texas, and is a graduate of the University of Texas.