Rob Firing
Transatlantic Literary Agency
Likely Open
Updated: 11/4/2025
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Rob Firing has been working as a promoter and publicist for more than 20 years, 15 of those at HarperCollins as their Senior Director of Publicity, Communications and Speakers’ Bureau.
Rob has worked closely with everyone from JK Rowling to Tom Wolfe, from Margaret Trudeau to Margaret Drabble — literally hundreds of writers across many genres.
He has won awards for his work from the Canadian Marketing Association and other marketing and PR organizations.
He is also the co-author of The Everyday Squash Cook (HarperCollins, 2014), and the author of STEAK REVOLUTION (HarperCollins, 2018), which was a Gourmand World Cookbook Award finalist.
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- Angie Abdou
- Yusra Ahmad
- Kamal Al-Solaylee
- Jeremy Allingham
- Ashly Jernigan
- Ashley Schütz
- Sharon Bala
- Murielle Banackissa
- Ralph Benmergui
- Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall
- Paulette Bourgeois
- Jennifer Crawford
- Moira Dann
- Geoff Dembicki
- Doug Dolan
- Susan R. Eaton
- Thom Ernst
- Karen Fisher
- Frank Fitzpatrick
- Cecil Foster
- Kimberly Fraser
- Asha Frost
- Natale Ghent
- Rachel Giese
- Ruchira Gupta
- Patti Hall
- Catherine Hernandez
- Angeline C. Jackson
- Uzma Jalaluddin
- Vanessa Jass
- Harold Johnson
- Rukhsana Khan
- Kathy Kortes-Miller
- Nina Kossman
- Karen Le Billon
- Amanda Leduc
- Marc Lewis
- Ethan Lou
- Karla Martinez de Salas
- Brian McFarlane
- Ra McGuire
- Heather McWilliam
- Pamela Mordecai
- Zarqa Nawaz
- Natasha Negovanlis
- Erinne Paisley
- Andrew Pyper
- Judy Rebick
- Noah Richler
- Chirag Shah
- Amy Stuart
- Laura Tamblyn Watts
- Jean Teillet
- Manjushree Thapa
- Rahim Thawer
- Nazbah Tom
- Heidi von Palleske
- Eric Walters
- Samra Zafar
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