Literary Agents
Literary Agent Panel at the 2011 Unicorn Writers’ Conference
Additional time with a literary agent can be obtained with a One-to-One Private Session ($48.03)
2012 Literary Agents
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A Literary Agent with the Sarah Jane Freymann Literary Agency, Katharine has worked with a varied list of authors who publish a diverse array of books...
Gina Panettieri is President of Milford, Connecticut-based Talcott Notch Literary Services, and has worked as a literary agent for more than twenty years...
Reid Boates was an editor at Doubleday and then Warner Books before founding his independent literary agency in 1985. His titles include the #1 New York Times & Wall Street Journal bestseller Longerberger: An American Success Story and the breakthrough bestseller, The Portable Curmudgeon...
Meredith Bernstein has been a literary agent for over thirty years, and celebrated her own agency’s twenty-fifth anniversary in April 2006. Prior to becoming a literary agent, she worked as a story editor for film producers on both the East and West Coasts, as well as a freelance reader...
My areas of special interest include well-written narrative nonfiction, architecture, history, politics, natural history (especially birds), science, the environment, women's issues, parenting, cooking, psychology, health, wellness, diet, fitness, lifestyle, mind-body-spirit, sustainability, home improvement and design, popular reference, and leisure activities....
Laura Blake Peterson began her career in publishing at Curtis Brown as a summer intern. She is a graduate of Vassar College and has been with Curtis Brown since 1987, representing a wide range of fiction, non-fiction and books for....
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Nicholas has had a life-long love of books. He earned his degree in Creative Writing from the University of New Mexico and Certification in Book Publishing from New York University. He started his publishing career at John Wiley & Sons and Rosen Publishing.
THE DOE COOVER AGENCY was founded in 1986 by Doe Coover, previously an editor at Charles Scribner’s Sons and editor-in-chief of Addison-Wesley’s trade division...
Loretta A. Barrett is a literary agent and president of Loretta Barrett Books, Inc. in New York. She founded the agency in 1990. Prior to that she was Editor-in-Chief of Anchor Books and Vice President and Executive Editor at Doubleday...
The ALISON BOND LITERARY AGENCY was founded in 1981, to continue what she loved doing most: editing and shaping the work of writers whose ideas intrigued me and who were getting overlooked in the dash towards commercial publication. As a longtime editor for Holt, Scribners, Praeger during the 60s and mid-70s, I had...
Mei Yao founded the Yao Enterprises, LLC, with a singular objective of enabling cross-cultural understanding between the Chinese speaking and the English speaking societies around the world.
Since 1986, Malaga Baldi has worked as an independent literary agent. Her first publishing job was as a cashier at Gotham Book Mart. Baldi also worked in the Ballantine Books Publicity Department, and as an associate at Candida Donadio & Associates and the Elaine Markson Agency before going out on her own...
On the twenty-sixth anniversary (Dec. 7, 1967) of Pearl Harbor Day, Lewis R. Chambers "dropped his bombs" on his last salaried position and walked out the door, jobless, into the terrifically exciting (and, at times, daunting) era that was "the '60s"!
With a bit of financial assistance (and...
After an A.B. in philosophy at Cornell and graduate work in British and American literature at Northwestern, John Ware was an Editor at Doubleday for eight years, (publishing Tracy Kidder first), seven of which he also taught the industry-wide Editorial Workshop at NYU...
Joëlle Delbourgo is President and Founder of Joëlle Delbourgo Associates, founded in 1999. A highly energetic former publishing executive and editor turned entrepreneur and literary agent, she has devoted more than three decades to identifying and developing literary talent.
Katie Kotchman began her career at Denise Marcil Literary Agency in 2005 and joined Don Congdon Associates as an agent in 2008. She continues to serve as the business and contracts manager for Denise Marcil while maintaining her own list of clients under Don Congdon...
Sheree Bykofsky, AAR, represents over 100 book authors in all areas of adult non-fiction as well as literary and commercial fiction. Her non-fiction specialties include business, health, psychology, poker, spirituality, self-help, humor, cookbooks, pop culture, biography, women's issues, decorating & crafts, music, and much more...
Linda Konner has been in the publishing business for over 30 years, as an agent, author, editor, columnist and lecturer...
A former editor with major New York houses, Rita Rosenkranz founded Rita Rosenkranz Literary Agency in 1990. Her adult non-fiction list stretches from the decorative-Flowers, White House Style. More Than 125 Arrangements by the Former White House Chief Floral Decorator by Dottie Temple and Stan Finegold (Simon & Schuster) to the dark--Saving Beauty from the Beast...
Jeanne Fredericks established her own literary agency in 1997 after working with Susan P. Urstadt, Inc. for seven years as an agent and acting director. Previously she rose up the editorial side of trade book publishing while earning an MBA in marketing at N.Y.U. Graduate School of Business Administration...
Sarah Yake has worked with literary agent Fran Collin since 2005 and has been building her own client list for the past four years in addition to selling foreign and subsidiary rights for the agency’s clients, including the estates of Rachel Carson, John Williams and Esther Forbes . Prior to becoming an agent Sarah managed....