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Since beginning my career in publishing in 1995, ive been fortunate to have the opportunity to work in three different albeit related capacities in the book industry. One of the largest literary agencies in the world, writers house provides an extraordinary amount of individual client attention combined with the benefits of full service foreign rights, subsidiary rights, and contracts departments. Ellen founded the ellen levine literary agency in the eighties which she merged with trident in 2002. We do not accept simultaneoussubmissions that have been sent to other agents at trident media group. With this twopronged philosophy, writers house has played a critical role in developing the careers of hundreds of. Although im a very nice midwesterner, ive heard through the grapevine that editors call me a hardworking bulldog agent that will fight for you. Best literary agents 20192020 all genres top book agents.
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Author of the accidental mother, rowan colemans the memory book, an uplifting and moving novel pitched as in the spirit of jojo moyes me before you, a story of mothers and daughters and what we will do for love, to linda marrow at ballantine bantam dell, in a two book deal, by jill grinberg at jill grinberg literary management and lizzy. Jessica kirkland literary agent kirkland media management. Daniel literary group is a literary agency representing quality nonfiction books for adults. Al zuckerman, a former novelist, tv writer, and teacher of playwriting at yale, is the founder of writers house. Agent statistics, detailing how long each agent typically takes to respond to a query. Greg daniel founded daniel literary group in early 2007 after more than ten years in publishing, six of which were at the executive level at thomas nelson publishers where he was vice president and associate publisher for w publishing group, a trade book division of thomas nelson. Stonesong is a dynamic, forwardthinking, yet traditional literary agency, whose agents represent a wide range of authors, genres, and books, with particular strength in lifestyle, nonfiction, health and wellness, personal development, popular culture, illustrated books, business, humor, and culinar. Picture book literary agents 20192020 find literary agents for childrens books on our list of literary agents, featuring childrens picture book literary agents accepting picture book submissions. Originally from the san francisco bay area, she went east for sarah lawrence college and stayed for the opportunity to read soontobe books for a living. Context literary agency represents highquality childrens literature, womens fiction, and narrative nonfiction.
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Jim donovan literary has successfully represented book authors to the publishing world since 1993. We are dedicated to guiding our clients to the greatest possible success. If theyd show it in school as an educational video, id probably like it. We represent writers, directors, producers, designers, composers and belowtheline talent across the creative industries. Use the list of literary agents in our directory to submit your query letter to the best literary agents interested in books dealing with gay issues and get a top publishing agent, publisher, and book deal. She says as much on a bookends youtube video entitled how agents really read queries, starting around the 3. With a client list including womens fiction, mystery, young adult and romance, kim enjoys working on a wide range of books.
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In most cases, the author representatives below are included based on the number of significant book deals theyve reported. Jessica kirkland literary agents seeking christian books. For example, to see a list of all writers with web pages hosted at publishers marketplace, click on writers. It features insider information by a former literary about how to find a literary agent and how to get a literary agent for authors of all book genres. Links to each agents submissions form, as well as a brief description of each agents most current preferences, can be found below.
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