Sharlene Martin

Martin Literary & Media Management
Manager and Producer

Seattle, Washington

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About Sharlene

In 2003, Sharlene took her passion for great stories and their authors and her years in the entertainment industry, to form Martin Literary & Media Management. Her agency has experienced extraordinary success in sales and alliances. In the years since that time, her remarkable rise in the publishing industry is demonstrated by a rapidly growing list of non-fiction sales to such renowned major publishers as Random House, Rodale, Harper Collins, St. Martin's Press, Penguin Putnam, Hachette, Simon and Schuster, as well as to a host of boutique publishers for specialized genre books.

She has represented numerous New York Times bestselling nonfiction books, including: Impossible Odds: The Kidnapping of Jessica Buchanan and Her Dramatic Rescue by SEAL Team Six by Anthony Flacco; Picture Perfect: The Jodi Arias Story by Shanna Hogan; Notes Left Behind by Keith & Brooke Desserich; Raffaele Sollecito’s book, Honor Bound: My Journey to Hell and Back with Amanda Knox; HLN’s Jane Velez-Mitchell's memoir, I Want; Suzanne Hansen’s You’ll Never Nanny in this Town Again; MaryJo Buttafuocco's Getting It Through My Thick Skull; and The Goldman family’s If I Did It, based on the OJ Simpson murders of Ron Goldman and Nicole Simpson.

Many of Sharlene's authors have had their books boosted as serial reprints in prestigious publications such as Readers' Digest, People Magazine, WHO, and the London Times, and five of her clients have appeared on Oprah. Other client appearances include 60 Minutes, The TODAY Show, The View, Fox and Friends, Good Morning America, The Early Show, 20/20, 48 Hours, Discovery Channel, Inside Edition, The 700 Club, ET, The Insider, ABC Nightline, Dr. Phil, Anderson Cooper 360, CNN, HLN, Discovery ID and Fox News.

Hallmark Hall of Fame's acclaimed TV movie in December 2008 was based on her client’s book, Front of the Class. She was Executive Producer of Lifetime’s 2012 movie, The Pregnancy Project, which garnered the two top Imagen Awards in 2012 for Best Primetime Movie/Special and Best Actress (Alexa Vega). She is Co- Creator/Producer of the reality series, DEADLY SINS for Discovery ID, currently entering its sixth season. She was the Co-EP with Nancy Glass Productions for the 2015-16 season of specials, EPIC MYSTERIES, for Discovery ID. She will serve as Executive Producer on the Paramount TV/ Anonymous Content series, based on the Scholastic series Hilde Cracks the Case. She recently optioned Impossible Odds to Warner Bros. for Clint Eastwood to direct and Brian Helgeland adapting. She will also Executive Produce the feature, Hidden Girl, with the Egyptian production company, The Talkies. She recently served as the Executive Producer with Outpost Entertainment for A&E’s documentary OJ: Guilty in Vegas. She is actively doing business with a host of film and TV companies for adaptations of her clients' books. She recently signed an overall deal with ITV America.

She is also the co-author, with Anthony Flacco, of Publish Your Nonfiction Book (Writer's Digest Books) and Literary Fails: Totally (sic)!.

Publishers, editors and writers who deal with her consistently express their joy in working with someone who is such an avid fan of good writing, as well as an enthusiastic guardian and representative of her clients' work. She employs this personal touch to all her business relationships and credits it with her proven record of success.

Sharlene divides her time between her home near Seattle and Los Angeles.

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OJ: Guilty in Vegas (2017)
Film (Documentary) Executive Producer Add a Plot »
Deadly Sins (2012 - 2017)
Television (Crime and Documentary) Producer/Co-Creator A docudrama that examines the true evils that push people beyond the limits of the law and reveals crimes driven by the most basic of human instincts.
Too Pretty to Live (2016)
TV Movie (Documentary, Crime and Reality-TV) Producer On January 31, 2012, engaged couple Billy Payne and Billie Jean Hayworth are found murdered in their Mountain City, Tennessee home. As police investigate, the story takes a shocking turn when the admitted shooter claims the crime was a sanctioned hit ordered by a rogue CIA agent. Authorities dig deeper, but find no record of the agent, and actually discover that the killers have been catfished. Who is behind the fabricated government official? Ripped from the pages of renowned prosecutor Dennis Brooks' new book, TOO PRETTY TO LIVE is a story of betrayal, vengeance, and two overly-protective parents manipulated into committing murder. Written by Anonymous
Smooth Talker (2016)
TV Movie (Documentary, Crime and Reality-TV) Producer Michelle Wallace disappeared 20 years ago in Colorado after picking up two hitchhikers. Investigator Kathy Ireland makes it her mission to bring Wallace's killer, Roy Melanson, to justice and finds other possible victims.
A Taste for Murder (2016)
TV Movie (Documentary, Crime and Reality-TV) Producer Angelina Rodriguez is a newlywed, living in a dream home with her prince charming. It all comes to a tragic end when her new husband, Frank, dies suddenly under mysterious circumstances.
Let's Kill Mom (2015)
TV Movie (Documentary, Crime and Reality-TV) Producer In a suburb outside Fort Worth, Texas, a hard-working, single mother is found dead in her home. This is a story of young love, satanic worship, toxic relationships, rage, and unimaginable violence featuring interviews from those involved.
A Checklist for Murder (2015)
TV Movie (Documentary and Crime) Producer Robert Peernock is a man on a mission to expose government corruption. But his plan takes a shocking turn when his wife, Claire Lawrence Peernock, turns up dead and his daughter, Natasha, is found clinging to life after what appears to be a terrible car accident. Authorities are puzzled by the scene of the accident; until Natasha recovers and recalls that she and her mother were beaten and tortured prior to the car crash. Written by Anonymous
The Pregnancy Project (2012)
TV Movie (Drama) Producer A 17-year-old, attending a Washington state high-school, made her senior school project the treatment of pregnant teenagers by pretending to be pregnant.
Gods and Generals (2003)
Film (Biography, Drama, History and War) Casting department The rise and fall of legendary war hero Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson as he leads the Confederacy to great success against the Union from 1861 to 1863.