Cynthia Ruchti

Cynthia Ruchti has worked shoulder-to-shoulder with publishers, editors, marketing managers, as well as retailers, library representatives, reviewers, and other agents on industry-centric projects and events and is invited to many of those events as an industry insider.

Her previous roles in creating mission and vision statements for non-profit governing boards, problem-solving, negotiating, personnel placement, and handling communications prepared her for similar roles in agenting.

As author of more than 50 books to date (both fiction and nonfiction), Cynthia has experienced the full gamut of the author’s side of the process. She understands both the heart of the author and the business side of a writing career, the elements of a strong proposal, editor/author relationships, marketing and publicity challenges, and the sometimes labyrinthine path to publication. As an agent, she’s exercised all those learned skills, and has been involved in many multi-book acquisitions and in multi-publisher auctions for her authors’ projects.

Since joining the Books & Such agency in 2017, she has seen the authors she’s acquired—fiction and non-fiction—published with HarperCollins, Hachette, Penguin Random House/Waterbrook Multnomah, several imprints within the Baker Publishing Group, Harvest House, David C. Cook, InterVarsity Press, Moody Publishers, Barbour, Kregel, Tyndale House, Guideposts, and other key publishing houses. She’s celebrated her authors becoming bestsellers on the New York Times list, ECPA and Parable Bestseller lists, and other national bestseller lists, and receiving honors in a number of industry awards programs including International Book Awards, Carol Awards, and Christy Awards, and the prestigious ECPA and CT Book of the Year honors.

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