Exclusively children's: from picture books to teenage novels (home 15%, overseas 20%).
Strictly no unsolicited submissions.
Founded 2004.
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Exclusively children's: from picture books to teenage novels (home 15%, overseas 20%).
Strictly no unsolicited submissions.
Founded 2004.
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Adult fiction and non-fiction, children's and young adult (15%).
No short stories, poetry, plays, screenplays or sci-fi/fantasy.
No reading fee.
Founded 1985.
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Associate Agents
Exclusively all kinds of children's books.
Represents both authors and illustrators.
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Exclusively children's fiction and non-fiction: picture books, middle grade, young adult, young readers (home 15%, overseas 20%).
US authors only.
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Commercial fiction and literary fiction for adults and children. Handles foreign rights.
We are no longer considering new clients and do not consider submissions.
Clients include Bruce Coville, J.B. Cheany, David Lubar, Christopher Pike.
Established 1976.
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Children's fiction, middle grade, young adult (11-15 year-olds), historical fiction (home 15%, overseas 15%).
Seeking contemporary and historical fiction 35,000-50,000 words for 8-11 and 11-15 year-olds. No fables, fantasy or fairytales; no illustrated books; no sci-fi.
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Specialises in young adult and middle grade fiction, but also handles picture book writers and illustrators. No non-fiction.
Has a preference for quirky, offbeat work. Query only.
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We do not accept screenplay, stage play, poetry, or picture book queries. We are especially eager to read thrillers, horror, commercial suspense, speculative fiction, upmarket women's fiction, middle grade, YA, literary fiction, research-driven non-fiction, and narrative non-fiction.
Submission guidelines Please note that we do not accept submissions via email, mail, or fax. To query us, visit our website and submit via the submissions form: https://cookemcdermid.formstack.com/forms/submissions
A list of our active clients is available at https://cookemcdermid.com/authors.
Founded in 2017.
Agents
Exclusively children's books (home 15%, overseas 20%).
Represents both authors and illustrators.
Small agency; not looking for new clients.
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Specialises in educational texts for K-12 market (home 15%, overseas 25%).
No picture books or fiction.
Send query with sase, or send outline and one sample chapter by email or with sase for return of material.
Founded 1981.
Children's books: fiction, non-fiction, picture books, middle grade, young adult (home 15%, overseas 20%).
No unsolicited queries or submissions; considers material only by referral or through personal contact such as at conferences.
Founded 1999.
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Specialises in children's and young adult, juvenile fiction and non-fiction (home 15%, overseas 20%).
Send query letter by post in first instance.
Founded 1992.
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Specialises in children's books: fiction, non-fiction, picture books, MS/illustration packages for middle grade and young adult (home 10%, overseas 20%).
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We represent general and mainstream fiction. This includes, but is not limited to, romance, mystery, YA, sci-fi, and fantasy. We also accept submissions from authors, agents, and publishers who would like to self-publish an original title on eBook. We do not represent nonfiction titles.
Submission guidelines: Please e-mail a query letter which includes your credentials, an explanation of what makes your book unique, and a synopsis of your novel to agency@inkitt.com.
Overseas associates: Rebecca Friedman of the Rebecca Friedman Literary Agency, and Catherine Crawford, a New York City based publishing professional and author.
We represent: Erin Swan, Lauren L. Garcia, Charlotte Reagan, Ryan Attard, Emily Ruben.
The agency was founded: 2016.
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Submission Guidelines:
We accept electronic submissions only. Please do not call the agency to query, or to inquire about querying. Do not use the postal service or any other snail mail service to mail your submissions.
To query, type “Query (Agent Name)” plus the title of your novel in the subject line, then please send the following pasted into the body of the e-mail to query(at)inklingsliterary(dot)com:
A query letter that includes:
The title, genre, and word count of your project.
A brief blurb about the story.
A brief bio including any publishing credits.
The first 10 pages of your manuscript
A brief synopsis (1-2 pages)
Your subject line should look like this (If you were querying Whitley and the name of your book is "One Thousand Ways to Drink Coffee"):
Query Whitley: ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO DRINK COFFEE.
We will not open unsolicited attachments, so make sure you send all of the above pasted into the body of the email.
Our response time varies for queries, but the general response time is within 3 months for queries, and 4 months for manuscripts.
See www.inklingsliterary.com for full details.
Overseas associates:
German and Scandinavian Sub Agent: Claudia Böhme Rights & Literary Agency
Hungarian Rights Sub Agent: Lex Copyright
Turkish Rights Sub Agent: AK©ALI AGENCY
Polish Rights Sub Agent: Book/lab Literary Agency
We represent: Sawyer Bennett, A. Meredith Walters, LS Hawker, Elliott James, Stacey Lynn, Anna Fields and more.
The agency was founded in January 2013.
Contacts
Adult fiction, non-fiction and young adult.
No unsolicited MSS; query first.
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Fiction and non-fiction for adults and children (home 15%, overseas 20%).
Promotes books of Jewish interest. Send query with email address, sase and first 5pp of MS.
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Reading fee yes
Who you represent
We represent Holly Bourne, Jenna Burtenshaw, Anne Cameron, Nuala Casey, C.J. Daugherty, Carrie Duffy, Carolyn Jess-Cooke, L.A. Jones, Victoria Fox, Emma Garcia, S.B. Hayes, Dave Lowe, Martel Maxwell, Lynda Page, J.J Salem, Cally Taylor, Anna-Lou Weatherley
The agency was founded in March 2012
AA member.
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Children's Fiction, non-fiction, picture books, middle grade and young adult books (home 15%, overseas 20%). Seeking well-written books of professional quality with continuity of character and story. Send query letter with sae or outline and 2 sample chapters by regular mail (no email). Send sase for return of material.
Founded 1974
Director
Specialist in children's novelty books, picture books, fiction for 6-9 and 10-12 year-olds, teenage fiction and series fiction (from 10% home, 20% overseas).
Send covering letter, brief synopsis and 3 sample chapters. For picture books send complete text and/or copies of sample artwork (do not send original artwork).
No reading fee. No email submissions. Sae essential.
Founded 2003.
Contact
Exclusively children's book authors and artists (home 15%, overseas 25%), from picture books to middle-grade and young adult novels.
Query with sase or by email.
Founded 1998.
Staff
Full-length MSS, fiction, non-fiction, adult, juvenile, educational, academic books; films, TV, radio (home 15%, overseas 20%). Preliminary letter, synopsis with sae required. No reading fee. Co-agents in London and New York. 100 clients. Founded 1977. Children's fiction and non-fiction (home 15%, overseas 20%).
Handles picture books, junior and teenage fiction, film/TV tie-ins, non-fiction and reference; educational (primary). Also handles adult fiction and non-fiction, and film, TV and radio; approx. 50% of list is for the children's market. Concentrates on New Zealand authors. Send book proposal with an outline and biography. No reading fee.
Co-agents in London and New York.
Children's authors include Joy Cowley and Maurice Gee - the agency has approx. 50 on books.
Founded 1977.
President
We represent:
1) in Brazil: Piccadilly Press (UK), Andersen Press (UK), NB Publishers (South Africa), Patakis (Greece), Livanis (Greece), Munhakdongne (Korea), Cappelen Damm (Norway), Kogan Page Ltd (UK), WAB (Poland), among other international publishers; 2) Overseas: Brazilian best-sellers and awarded winning titles including Agape, O x da questao, Os sete, Don Solidon, among others.
No reading fee.
Registered at: Flat D, 11 Florfield Passage, London, E8 1EB, United Kingdom
Mail to Portuguese address.
Directors / Contacts
We represent the very best in Children’s and Young Adult fiction from first chapter books for 5+ years right up to crossover titles for teens/young adults. We do not represent picture books at this time. We are always looking for talented new authors.
Submission guidelines
Please send submissions by email only.
We require the full manuscript as a Word document and a separate one-page synopsis.
Our submissions guidelines can be found here, www.skylark-literary.com/submission-guidelines
Our submissions email address is submissions@skylark-literary.com
Founded: November 17th 2014
We are very new but have already signed four authors so far, Carol Reynolds, Emily Lowrey, Amy Wilson and Elizabeth Dunn.
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Children's fiction and non-fiction, from preschool to young adult (home 15%, overseas 20%).
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Exclusively children's books: middle grade, young adult novels and MS/illustration packages by artist/illustrator only. No picture book MSS (home 15-20%, overseas 20-25%).
Interested in seeing first chapter books, and middle-grade and teenage fiction.
No religious books. Send query letter with sase; no fax or email queries.
Founded 1995.
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Children's books. Focuses particularly on picture books, middle-grade novels and teen fiction. No unsolicited submissions for non-fiction chapter books, middle-grade or teen novels.
Not interested in board books or lift-the-flap books; fables, folklore, or traditional fairytales; poetry or ‘mood pieces'; stories for ‘all ages'; or heavy-handed message-driven stories.
Looking for author/illustrators (one individual), who can both write and illustrate picture books. They must really know and understand the prime needs and wants of the child reader.
President
We are actively seeking new clients. We accept submissions in all genres of adult and young-adult full-length fiction. We do not handle articles, children's books, essays, memoirs, nonfiction, novellas, poetry, screenplays, short stories, stage plays.
Submission guidelines
We are actively seeking new clients. Queries should be emailed to evan@evanmarshallagency.com. In the body of your email, please include: a query letter, the first three chapters of your novel, and a short synopsis of the entire novel.
Emails with attachments will be discarded.
Due to the volume of queries we receive, we regret that we are not able to respond to every query. If we are interested in reading more, we will respond within approximately two weeks.
We represent:
Elaine Barbieri, Tom Bernard, Barbara Block, Leigh Carman, Mary Carter, Nancy J. Cohen, Cheryl Crane, Isis Crawford, Colleen Faulkner, V. K. Forrest, Angie Fox, Judith E. French, Sarah Gray, Michael Griffo, Norah Hess, Dorothy Howell, Hannah Howell, Charlotte Hubbard, Katherine Irons, Alexandra Ivy, Vanessa Kelly, Rebecca Kertz, Naomi King, Sylvie Kurtz, Cathy Lamb, Heather C. Leigh, Laura Levine, Candace McCarthy, Melissa MacNeal, John Manchester, Lisa Manuel, Alyssa Maxwell, Emma Miller, Hunter Morgan, J. J. Murray, Constance O'Banyon, Charles O'Brien, Carlene O'Connor, Sharon Page, Deborah Raleigh, Robin Reardon, Farrah Rochon, Michael Salvatore, Deborah Simmons, Michele Sinclair, Bobbi Smith, Karen Rose Smith, Judith Stacy, V. K. Sykes, and others.
The agency was founded in 1987.
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Children's fiction from age 5 through to teen/young adult (USA/UK 15%, elsewhere 25%).
Represents both US and UK authors.
No picture books or non-fiction.
No reading fee. Will suggest revision. Contact by email or snail mail.
Founded 2008.
Agent
Children's fiction and non-fiction for all ages from baby to young adult.
Represents authors and author/illustrators.
Send query letter, outline and sample plus sase.
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