W. Terry Whalin

Current

Owner at Whalin Literary Agency LLC

Past

Fiction Acquisitions Editor at Howard Books/ Howard Publishing
Acquisitions Editor at Cook Communications Ministries
Director of Business Development/ Feature Writer at Christianity.com / Starwire Corporation

Instructor at Institute of Children's Literature
President / CEO at Whalin & Associates (Sole Proprietorship)
Associate Editor Decision magazine at Billy Graham Evangelistic Association

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Education

The University of Texas at Arlington
Multnomah Bible College
Indiana University Bloomington

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W. Terry Whalin’s Summary

For more than 20 years, Terry has been involved in different aspects of magazine and book publishing--as an editor, a writer and now a literary agent.

W. Terry Whalin’s Specialties:

Acquisitions, Writing, Editing, Teaching at conferences

W. Terry Whalin’s Experience

Owner

Whalin Literary Agency LLC

(Publishing industry)

January 2007 — Present (1 year 7 months)
Fiction Acquisitions Editor

Howard Books/ Howard Publishing

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry)

January 2004 — December 2006 (3 years)

Acquire fiction for publishing house; present new product to publishing committee; negotiate contracts; reject unsolicited and solicited manuscripts.
Acquisitions Editor

Cook Communications Ministries

(Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Publishing industry)

2001 — 2003 (2 years)

Responsible for locating authors, on-going author relations, championing book projects to the publications board, working on the book financials with the business office then contract negotiations with the author or a literary agent. While the average acquisitions book acquisitions editor acquires 12-15 books in a year, I acquired and contracted over 30 books during the last year.
Director of Business Development/ Feature Writer

Christianity.com / Starwire Corporation

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

February 2000 — November 2001 (1 year 10 months)

Director of Business Development with Christianity.com/ Starwire Corporation. Backed by lead investors Sequoia Capital (who also funded Apple, Cisco, and Yahoo) and the Christian Broadcasting Network.
Instructor

Institute of Children's Literature

(Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Publishing industry)

January 1998 — February 2000 (2 years 2 months)

United States' oldest correspondence course for children's writers. Had more than 600 students.
President / CEO
Whalin & Associates (Sole Proprietorship)

(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Publishing industry)

May 1994 — January 2000 (5 years 9 months)

A full-service editing, writing and communication company. Published numerous books and magazine articles and serviced various needs of full-time clients for press releases and other printed marketing collateral. Author of more than 60 books and written for more than 50 different publications. Several of these books are in the best-selling category with over 50,000 to 100,000 copies in print.
Associate Editor Decision magazine

Billy Graham Evangelistic Association

(Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Religious Institutions industry)

1993 — 1994 (1 year)

*Supervised editorial team at Decision with Billy Graham Evangelistic Association consisting of two editors, two editorial assistants and a research librarian.

* Decision had a circulation 1.8 million in 165 countries. Acquired and edited manuscripts from a variety of authors where some were best-selling and others unknown.