Agent to authors in the arenas of nonfiction including history, politics, current affairs, business, and science and fiction literary and commercial, sandras. You may also be interested in our list of literary managers but getting an agent is not as simple as calling up, sending an email or even mailing your script. We receive hundreds of queries each month, and make every effort to give each one careful consideration. Manning is a new literary agent at united talent agency seeking both fiction and nonfiction manuscripts. To commemorate the 25th anniversary of jabberwocky literary agency inc. Due to the high volume of submissions the agency receives, we cannot guarantee a response to all emailed queries. She has been a member of the literature panel for the california arts council, on the board for pen and is currently on the membership committee for the association of authors representatives. He served 30 years as ceo until his retirement in 2019, following the internal sale of the agency. If you have not heard from us regarding your query, please do not follow up to inquire about its status, as we do carefully consider all submissions and yours has not been lost.
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Kristin nelson president and founding literary agent my goal as an agent is simple. Maarten troost, stephen graham jones, and deanne stillman. Aug 09, 2016 6 established literary agents looking for clients. This is a journey that author and agent should make together, as colleagues, allies and with an implicit understanding of expectations. May 16, 2012 agents want to see that an author knows the market. Like us on facebook at vicky bijur literary agency.
The literary agents list includes agents and literary agencies that represent poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers, plus details about the kind of books theyre interested in representing, their clients, and the best way to contact them. Our deep expertise in working with content creators, from crafting proposals and polishing manuscripts through negotiating and managing contracts and protecting intellectual property rights, allows us to provide a sophisticated, innovative approach to our role as author advocates. Our clients, the backbone of our agency, the editors who polish manuscripts until they shine, and everyone else whose hard work and dedication lets us work with the books we love. We handle publishing rights and all ancillary rights such as film, tv, audio, electronic, and foreign for the authors we represent. Literary agencies in california list of ca literary. Chandler lived in over 36 different residences in and around l. Hill nadell literary agency 6442 santa monica blvd.
The rohm agency is devoted to nurturing new literary endeavors worldwide the rohm literary agency was founded in 2002 to represent emerging authors of literary fiction, narrative nonfiction, investigative journalism, poetry, plays and screenplays. This is a journey that author and agent should make together, as colleagues. Rebecca friedman literary is a full service agency, representing a wideranging list of fiction and non fiction authors. From there, she worked at sterling lord literistic and the hill nadell agency, before starting her own agency in 20. I want every client of mine to make a living solely from writing and 90% of my authors do without help from any other source of. We also work with memoir, commercial fiction, inspirational, young adult and business authors. Fiction literary agents find all fiction book agents on our list of literary agents using the official directory of literary agents.
Campus novels, literary thrillers, and comingofage novels are of particular interest. Literary agents are listed alphabetically in these pages on. Browse through agent or agency listings, or use advanced search to find literary agents who accept particular genres, accept queries, work in a particular state, and so on. List of ca book agencies and literary agents literary agencies in california. Stating that anyone from a 12yearold boy to an 80yearold woman will love your book just tells an agent you have no particular market in mind. The rohm literary agency was founded in 2002 to represent emerging authors of literary fiction, narrative nonfiction, investigative journalism, poetry, plays and screenplays. Ted weinstein literary management is a fullservice literary agency whose clients include a wide range of journalists, academics, and other innovative, expert authors of non fiction for adults. We also extensively handle film and television rights to books plus life rights. In fiction, she represents thrillers along with upmarket womens and literary fiction. On the nonfiction side, she is interested in unusual and offbeat memoir. Her novels include the chinchilla farm 1989, set for life 1991, a desert of. Our authors are diverse in category and cultural background.
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