Fonda Snyder began her career working with Sandra Marsh Management in London representing Academy Award winning and world renowned cinematographers, production designers, costume designers and editors.

She has created a management company, Alchemy Ink, Inc to represent a select group of authors and illustrators, selling world rights for their unpublished books to publishing companies. Snyder represents and develops the underlying entertainment rights for books sold via Alchemy Ink, to sell to major film studios and networks. In addition, Snyder consults to entertainment companies, feature studios and networks to develop characters, stories and existing properties cross platform to become franchise oriented film and television in both animation and live action. She also consults directly with major publishing companies to assess and create viability for in-house authors’ books being adapted to film/television.

Snyder’s sales to Publishers and Studios via Alchemy Ink, include the following:

Packaged and sold world rights to the highly publicized and fiercely pursued literary survival memoir Crazy for the Storm by Norman Ollestad to Harper Collins’s imprint Ecco.  The memoir became a NY Times and LA Times Bestseller, and was designated by Starbucks as their Starbucks pick. Feature Film being adapted by screenwriter Will Fetters and will be produced by Snyder and Rob Weisbach at Warner Bros with Bill Gerber Pictures.

Packaged and sold world rights in competitive auction to actress Hilary Duff’s New York Times Best Selling books-2 in a y/a series entitled Elixir and Devoted to Simon and Schuster.

Packaged best selling y/a novel series Encyclopedia Brown as graphic novel and screenwriter Ryan Rowe for screenplay adaptation for Producer/Rights Holder Howard Deutsch and John Zakin.

Packaged-middle grade hardcover novel to Aladdin/Simon and Schuster-The Wish Stealers, by author Tracy Trivas A Princess Found.

Packaged middle grade hardcover novel to Harcourt Houghton Mifflin-Populazzi, by author Elise Allen.  Film rights being negotiated.

Packaged y/a novel to Dial-Penguin-Barbizon, in a two book deal, by author Iva Marie Palmer.

Packaged picture book to Random House-Taffy Saltwater by Author Michael Paraskevas.

Prior to Alchemy Ink, Inc., Snyder served as Vice President, Original Movies responsible for supervising the development of all Disney Channel Original Movies, the #1 Cable Channel for Kids 6-11-reaching 95 million homes, overseeing franchises such as Wendy Wu and Cheetah Girls during her tenure.

She joined Disney Channel from Cookie Jar Entertainment where she was Senior Vice President of Creative Development and U.S. Sales. There, she oversaw the development of more than 50 properties for multiple platforms, selling preschool, comedy and boys action animated series to networks including Disney Channel (for Playhouse Disney), Kids WB and Cartoon Network.

"Fonda's experience with children's programming makes her a perfect fit to help lead the charge for Disney Channel's enormously successful original movie division," said Senior Vice President Original Movies Michael Healy. "Her creativity and good taste will help us create and entertaining movies."

Snyder co-founded Storyopolis and was President of Storyopolis Productions, a franchise-oriented family entertainment company encompassing production, book publishing, art gallery, exhibition space and retail outlets. She also created Storyopolis children's book publishing division; an imprint which, to date, has generated more than $2 million in sales.

She has developed more than 25 projects for major television networks and film studios including an overall deal with Warner Bros where she set up a number of animated feature including the adaptation of William Joyce's "Nicholas Cricket" written by Chicken Run screenwriter Karey Kirkpatrick and starring Sandra Bullock; a live action feature film adaptation of Norton Juster's classic children's chapter book, "The Phantom Tollbooth"; and a feature length adaptation of Steve Seagle's (Ben 10 Creator’s) DC/Vertigo comic book "House Of Secrets".

Under a subsequent overall producing deal with the Weinstein Company, Snyder set up the animated movie "Opus the Penguin" based on Pulitzer Prize-winner Berkeley Breathed's best known cartoon strip character; as well as an additional Breathed project at 20th Century Fox; a feature film adaptation of his picture book "Red Ranger Came Calling". She recently sold Breathed’s book Flawed Dogs to DreamWorks to be adapted as an animated feature film with Noah Baumbach to write and direct.

With her sister and partner in Storyopolis, Snyder produced a Harcourt Brace celebrity children's book; a retelling of “The Emperor’s New Clothes” featuring contributions by Steven Spielberg, Madonna, Harrison Ford, and John Lithgow, among others, to benefit the Starbright Foundation.

In addition, she developed a feature length adaptation of Staton Rabin's book “Betsy and the Emperor” for director Patrice Chereau ("Queen Margot") and Al Pacino; produced the darkly magical film "Photographing Fairies" starring Ben Kingsley with the BBC and Polygram Filmed Entertainment and oversaw the development of Sony Pictures' "The Black Panther" and "Charlie Chan" while working with Brad Weston's Merlin Entertainment.

Snyder was President of Production for Martin Short's first look producing deal at Touchstone/Disney, where she built a development slate of films and book adaptations including "So, I Married an Axe Murderer," "Monopoly" and "Tooth Fairy."