Month: March 2018
Featured Agent: Daniel Lazar, Writer’s House, LLC
Actively seeking new clients Excerpt from http://www.writershouse.com Writers House is one of the largest literary agencies in the industry. We represent a wide range of adult and children’s fiction and non-fiction. I’m always on the lookout for distinct fiction and great, lively non-fiction. I represent adult and children’s books (for children’s books, I focus mainly …
Featured Agent: Quressa Robinson of Nelson Literary
Literary Agent Quressa Robinson Excerpt from: Quressa Robinson I’ve been an avid reader as long as I can remember. My oldest grudge stems from third grade, when the librarian’s daughter beat me out of a first-place gold medal in the summer reading challenge by two books. I was robbed! Needless to say, my competitiveness and …
Featured Agent: Emily Van Beek of Folio Jr.
Excerpt from https://www.foliojr.com/emily-van-beek/ Emily Van Beek About Me: I moved to New York City from Toronto armed with dual citizenship, a dream to work in children’s publishing, and inspiration from my favorite (if clichéd) Zen magnet, “Leap and the net will appear”. I became an editor at Hyperion Books for Children before deciding to explore …
YA Agent, Patty Carothers of Metamorphosis Literary
Patty Carothers – Agent excerpt from https://www.metamorphosisliteraryagency.com/about Patty Carothers has been in love with stories for as long as she can remember. She is a certified copy editor and an Oxford comma fangirl. Her adoration of all things comic book related and YA has morphed into her co-writing the Texting Prince Charming series. Engaging …
YA blogs you have to check out!
http://www.adventuresinyapublishing.com/ Young Adult Fiction, YA Book Giveaways, Advice from Young Adult Authors, Plus Writing Tips, Publishing Information, and Insider Tidbits Plus contests and workshops!! 5 pages workshop: How cool is this? They open submissions and participants are mentored by two published authors through three rounds of revisions and receive additional feedback from their literary agent …
Agent spotlight: Kaitlyn Johnson of Corvisiero Literary Agency
This excerpt from https://www.corvisieroagency.com/kaitlyn-johnson.html Kaitlyn Johnson – Literary Agent Apprentice Kaitlyn is currently OPEN to queries. After receiving a BA in Writing, Literature, and Publishing from Emerson College, Kaitlyn refused to leave the concept of nightly homework behind. As well as being an apprentice agent for Corvisiero Literary Agency, she is also a freelance editor …
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