The agency represents both fiction and nonfiction with special interest in biography and memoir, history, business, finance, psychology, and popular science.
agents:
Maria Carvainis- President and Agent, Moira Sullivan- Literary Associate, Christopher Jaskot- Literary Assistant
client list:
The Maria Carvainis Agency represents a list of notable NYT best-selling authors, including Sandra Brown, Mary Balogh, PJ Parrish, Cindy Gerard, Rhonda Pollero, Will Thomas and Samantha James. LUCREZIA BORGIA by John Faunce; BETSY AND THE EMPEROR, BLACK POWDER, and CURSE OF THE ROMANOVS by Staton Rabin; HONKU by Aaron Naparstek; BREATHING OUT by Peggy Lipton; the Spy Series by Nita Abrams; BITE by C.J. Tosh.
email submission information:
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what to send:
Query and Partial MS
looking for:
Non-Fiction Book
About This Market
Requests that all submissions be sent via post in hard copy with a query plus short sample. All submissions/queries will be responded to within 6-8 weeks, ideally.
This agent has not responded in any way to a query sent with an SASE by Word Hustler 6 months ago. I searched for her email address and sent a brief email asking if she received the mailed query. She DID NOT REPLY. Contacting her is IMO a waste of time and money. -- mickeymarie, 09-19-2009