About Rick Broadhead & Associates

Rick Broadhead & Associates was established in 2002 and quickly established itself as one of the leading literary agencies in the business, specializing in non-fiction books.

The agency’s founder, bestselling author Rick Broadhead, has a proven track record for finding literary talent, developing projects with strong commercial and media potential, and matching authors with publishers. Books represented by the agency have appeared on bestseller lists, been shortlisted for literary awards, translated into multiple languages, and through its partnerships in Hollywood, optioned for film and television development.

The agency's clients include accomplished journalists, historians, scholars, physicians, television personalities, bloggers, creators of popular Web sites, successful business executives, and experts in their respective fields. They include science journalist Sam Kean, author of the New York Times Bestseller The Disappearing Spoon; leading preventative medicine expert and Yale University physician Dr. David Katz; survival expert and Discovery Channel television host Les Stroud; intelligence historian and national security expert Matthew Aid; Princeton scholar and internationally-recognized Yemen expert Gregory Johnsen; former CNN Senior Political Analyst Bill Schneider; Wall Street Journal bestselling author Ryan Allis; marketing expert and venture capitalist Arlene Dickinson; award-winning military historian Tim Cook; ornithologist / biologist Dr. Glen Chilton; acclaimed ESPN sportswriter Gare Joyce; and hormone expert Dr. Natasha Turner, author of the National #1 Bestsellers, The Hormone Diet and The Supercharged Hormone Diet.

With an MBA from the Schulich School of Business, one of the world’s leading business schools, Rick Broadhead is one of the few literary agents in the publishing industry with a business and entrepreneurial background, one that benefits his clients at every step of the book development and contract negotiation process.