WHO WE ARE

Mission

2Bills Literary Agency represents people, not just projects, and views each author as a business partner, not just as a client.  Together with each author we create a cogent business proposal and represent the author’s best interests not just during contract negotiations, but throughout the entire publishing process.  Our focus, always, is on the success of the author’s book in the marketplace and the success of the author’s career as a writer.

Principals

Bill Dorn has spent 45+ years in publishing and related media. Following stints as a writer and city editor with the Mankato (MN) Free Press daily newspaper, and magazine publisher, Miller Publishing Company, he founded and led Dorn Communications, Inc. A multi-media communications company, Dorn Communications grew to employment of 150+ professionals and operated in five divisions: magazines, custom publishing, book publishing, public relations, and video production. Following the sale of Dorn Communications, Dorn founded Publishing Advisers International, Inc., a magazine management consulting company, which he operated for 20 years.

Bill Hammond has 30+ years in book publishing, as a salesman and trade sales manager for Little, Brown & Company; as publisher for Hazelden Publishing & Education; as an investment banker and management consultant in the publishing industry; and as a literary agent.  He is also the author of A Matter of Honor, a novel of historical / nautical fiction published in October 2007 by Cumberland House.  This is the first of a projected six titles in a series of nautical fiction.

Genres

2Bills emphasizes nonfiction in its product portfolio, though we will consider commercial fiction in such areas as crime, mystery, suspense, historical and women’s fiction.

Nonfiction categories include:

• Business
• Entertainment
• Parenting
• Religion
• True Crime
• Animals
• Biography
• History
• Sports
• Government & Politics
• Spiritual and Mental Health
• Memoir