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McIntosh Otis Inc.

Contacts
353 Lexington Avenue

New York, NY 10016
United States
tel: 
212-687-7400
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Personnel: 

Adult

  • Eugene H. Winick
  • Elizabeth Winick

Juvenile

  • Edward Necarsulmer IV

Film TV

  • Evva Joan Pryor

Head of Children's Dept

  • Edward Necarsulmer IV

Founded 1928.  Read more

Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency Inc.

Contacts
216 East 75th Street
Suite 1e
New York, NY 10021
United States
tel: 
212-794-1082
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Personnel: 

President

  • Jean V. Naggar

Agents

  • Alice Tasman
  • Mollie Glick
  • Jennifer Weltz
  • Jessica Regel

Mainstream commercial and literary fiction (no formula fiction);

Non-fiction: psychology, science, biography, performance rights.

Send query letter (via email only - jvnla@jvnla.com) to the agent you feel is best fitted for your work.

Founded 1978.

The Marton Agency Inc.

Contacts
1 Union Square West
Suite 815
New York, NY 10003
United States
tel: 
212-255-1908
fax: 
212-691-9061
email: 
info@martonagency.com
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Personnel: 

Contact

  • Tonda Marton

Stage plays and musicals.

Principally foreign language licensing.

Association of Authors' Representatives

The website of the American agents’ association (http://www.aar-online.org) offers a list of members, suggested points to raise with an agent who offers to represent you, and some further guidance on the author/agent relationship.

Fifi Oscard Agency Inc.

Contacts
110 West 40th Street

New York, NY 10018
United States
tel: 
212-764-1100
email: 
agency@fifioscard.com
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Personnel: 

Agents

  • Peter Sawyer
  • Carolyn French
  • Carmen La Via
  • Kevin McShane

Full-length MS, theatrical performance rights.

No reading fee, but no unsolicited submissions.

Liepman AG

Contacts
Englischviertelstrasse 59

Zurich, CH-8032
Switzerland
tel: 
(044) 261 76 60
email: 
info@liepmanagency.com
Liepman AG website
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Personnel: 

Contacts

  • Eva Koralnik
  • Ruth Weibel

Founded 1949

Represent publishing houses and agencies from the USA, UK, Canada, France and Israel exclusively for German language publication rights.

Represents authors, agents and publishers from all over the world for German translation rights, and selected international authors for world rights.
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Harold Ober Associates Inc.

Contacts
425 Madison Avenue

New York, NY 10017
United States
tel: 
212-759-8600
fax: 
212-759-9428
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Personnel: 

Directors

  • Phyllis Westberg: (Fiction, Non-Fiction, Children. Dramatic Rights)
  • Craig Tenney: (Fiction, Children. Print and Electronic Permissions)
  • Pamela Malpas: (Fiction, Non-Fiction. Translation)
  • Jake Elwell: (Fiction, Non-Fiction)
  • Don Laventhall: (Motion Picture and Television Rights)
  • Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke: (Assistant to Phyllis. Dramatic Permissions)

Founded 1929. We work in partnership with the following agencies

EUROPE

Andrew Nurnberg Associates

Sells rights internationally on behalf of UK/US agencies and publishers. Agent for UK and international authors, including children's writers. Fiction, non-fiction and children's fiction. Does not represent children's picture books, poetry or scripts for film, T.V, radio or theatre.

Submission Guidelines:

  • Send a short, 1-page synopsis and the first three chapters (double or 1.5 spaced) with a covering letter. If sending by post include an S.A.E for the return of your material.
  • Email submissions@andrewnurnburg.com with files of less than 3mb and in .doc or .pdf format

Founded 1977

Association of Authors' Agents

(Sofia)

Andrew Nurnberg Associates (London)

Agence Hoffman (Paris)

Liepman AG (Zürich)
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Capel & Land Ltd

Contacts
29 Wardour Street

London, W1D 6PS
United Kingdom
tel: 
020-7734 2414
fax: 
020-7734 8101
email: 
rosie@capelland.co.uk
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Personnel: 

Agents

  • Georgina Capel (literary)
  • Anita Land (TV)

Submission guidelines

Long list of clients - Specialist with rights and broadcasting.

Founded 1999

Leonhardt Høier Literary Agency a/s

Contacts
Studiestraede 35

Copenhagen , K DK-1455
Denmark
tel: 
(33) 13 25 23
fax: 
(33) 13 49 92
email: 
anneli@leonhardt-hoier.dk
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Personnel: 

Director

  • Anneli Høier with Monica Gram

The agency was founded in 1951 by Albrecht Leonhardt.

Specialising in selling German literature to Scandinavia.

In 1995 the agency was restructured and is now a leading international rights agency.

The Rod Hall Agency Ltd

Contacts
6th Floor, Fairgate House
78 New Oxford Street
London, WC1A 1HB
United Kingdom
tel: 
020-7079 7987
fax: 
(0845) 6384094
email: 
office@rodhallagency.com
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Personnel: 

Directors

  • Charlotte Knight
  • Martin Knight

Contact

  • Tanya Tillett

The Rod Hall AgencyThe Rod Hall Agency was formed in May 1997 to represent playwrights and screenwriters, writers who also direct, directors and stage and screen rights in selected novels.

Specialises in writers for stage, screen and radio but also deals in TV and film rights in novels and non-fiction and represents writer/directors. Email synopsis and intro in first instance, with a showreel if you are a writer/director.

No reading fee.

was formed in May 1997 to represent playwrights and screenwriters, writers who also direct, directors and stage and screen rights in selected novels.  Read more

Frances Bond Literary Services

Contacts
28 Gray's Inn Crescent

Westville , KwaZulu-Natal 3630
South Africa
tel: 
(031) 2662007
email: 
fbond@mweb.co.za
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Personnel: 
  • Chief Executive Frances Bond
  • Chief Editor Eileen Molver

Founded 1985.

Full length MSS. Fiction and non-fiction; juvenile and children's literature.

Consultancy service on contracts and copyright.

Preliminary phone call or letter and sase required. Reading fee terms on application.

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Closing date: 
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Entry: 
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