'70s movies (1) 20 Under 40 (1) 2008 (1) 2009 and beyond (2) 2666 (6) A Christmas Tale (2) A Little Disappeared (1) A Serious Man (1) A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (1) A.M. How to Balance an Unbalanced Writing Life.Chuck Palahniuk at the 2010 Muse and the Marketplace.Non-fiction: celebrity, pop culture, music, film & entertainment, current affairs & politics, humor & gift books, journalism, and multicultural.īackground: A former newspaper columnist for the Northwest Florida Daily News, she has been reading for the agency since last fall, and is also an author. Looking for: Fiction: graphic novels and literary fiction. Looking for: Children's picture books, middle-grade, and YA.īackground: Formerly an agent and international rights director at McCormick & Williams. Also, author of two books: the comic memoir Girl with Glasses: My Optic History and the YA novel A Field Guide to High School.

Talese/Doubleday, the Ellen Levine Literary Agency, and Delacorte Press/Random House Children's Books. In nonfiction, she loves narrative nonfiction and history.īackground: Worked previously at Nan A. Looking for: Compelling fiction and nonfiction, specifically books with an international focus. She gravitates toward strong female protagonists, complex plot lines with underlying political, moral, or philosophical issues.īackground: Assistant at Fischer-Harbage before being promoted to associate agent. Looking for: Everything from children’s books (chapter books to YA, both fiction and nonfiction) to adult fiction (speculative, fantasy, urban fantasy, science fiction, and romance, especially paranormal). If you're a writer with a finished first novel or memoir you're proud of and which you think is ready to send out, then read on.īackground: High school teacher, then intern at the agency before being promoted. So, for this post I'm going to highlight five agents who are relatively new (in the last few months) to the game and also some good resources for finding out more about new agents and general agent information. Often the agents have previously worked in publishing in some capacity, either as an editor or writer and they are making a career change, as a promoted intern or junior agent, or as an established agent who is changing agencies. Literary agents new to an agency are more likely to be interested in debut novelists and writers who haven't been able to crack more established agencies.

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