the feldstein agency

Directors:

 Paul Feldstein has over 30 years experience in the publishing industry. He was most recently Managing Director of Trafalgar Square, until the company was sold in 2006 to IPG. Trafalgar is the leading U.S. distributor of U.K. publishers. In addition to running the distribution company, he started and ran Trafalgar’s own very successful illustrated publishing imprint. He began his 20 years at Trafalgar as Sales & Marketing Director, a role he retained as Managing Director. During his tenure, sales increased ten fold, distribution clients grew from ten to fifty, and Trafalgar’s reputation on both sides of the Atlantic was second to none.

Paul began his publishing career at Marboro Books in New York as a bookseller, moving on to Direction of Operations & Finance at Abbeville Press. In 1986, he relocated to Vermont to join Trafalgar Square. He has a degree in English and American literature from Suny Purchase. He moved to Northern Ireland with his wife Susan in 2007.

Paul has extensive contacts and experience on both sides of the Atlantic, and his reputation for responsiveness, efficiency, professionalism and results is unparalleled.

Susan Feldstein (née Dalzell) has worked in book publishing for over seventeen years. Her varied experience in the industry covers publicity, sales, rights and commissioning. She has lived and worked in France, Germany, England and the U.S., as well as her native Northern Ireland.

Throughout her professional life, Susan has particularly enjoyed being involved in the setting up and implementation of new ventures and initiatives, and this has been reflectd  in her publishing career thus far. She was most recently Commissioning Editor for Northern Ireland (2003-2006) for Dublin publishers Gill & Macmillan. Her brief was to establish and develop a new non-fiction list by local authors, covering topics as diverse as military history, sport, politics, current affairs, local celebrity memoirs, biographies and cookery. The list achieved projected income targets by year two, exceeded these in the third year of operation, and indeed, continues to thrive for Gill and Macmillan to this day.

Prior to this, Susan worked for Belfast publisher Blackstaff Press, whom she first approached in 1996 about setting up a rights department there. The new rights operation quickly flourished, with an annual rights revenue, largely from U.S. coeditions and first serialisation deals, contributing significantly to the company's revenue from a zero base after the first two years. Susan was promoted to Commissioning Editor at Blackstaff in 1999, and remained there for the next three years, working with local authors such as Michael Longley, Sean MacMahon, David McKittrick, Bernard MacLaverty and Jonathan Bardon.

Susan's early experience in publishing included working in the rights department at A. and C. Black in London and in sales and promotions for Longman France in Paris. Prior to this, she spent several years in bookselling, managing the children's department of an English language bookshop in Paris.

Susan has an MA in French and German from St. Andrew's University in Scotland and a postgraduate diploma in printing and publishing studies from the London College of Printing.