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Updated December 02nd, 2009
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Don Congdon Associates, Inc., represents over one hundred active authors and many author’s estates, as well as a substantial backlist. The agency is a member of the AAR and has been in business since 1983. Many of its authors have appeared on best-seller lists, and have won numerous awards, including: Pulitzer Prize and George Polk Award winners Russell Baker and Edna Buchanan; recipient of the National Book Award Ellen Gilchrist; New York Times Best Seller Kathryn Stockett; James Thurber Prize winner David Sedaris; winner of an Edgar and Grand Master of Horror awards Richard Matheson; and Ray Bradbury, who has received numerous awards including the National Book Foundation’s 2002 medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

Query only, via email or snail mail. No email attachments. Please include SASE for snail mail queries.

agents: Michael Congdon, Susan Ramer, Cristina Concepcion, Maura Kye-Casella, Katie Grimm, Katie Kotchman

interested in: Michael Congdon: Biography, History (including Military History), other Narrative Non-Fiction (Science, Medicine, Nature, Sports).

Susan Ramer: Narrative nonfiction interests include social and cultural history, popular culture (including music, film, fashion, food), women’s issues, psychology, mental health. She looks for memoirs with unfamiliar themes, and in general loves nonfiction narratives that combine personal experience with larger social/cultural observations, history and/or reporting. In any work, she is first drawn to a strong, distinctive voice, and she likes her humor on the dark side.

Cristina Concepcion: Nonfiction: classical music, popular music, history, wine, visual and performing arts, sociology, essays and criticism, politics and current affairs, culinary subjects, biography and memoir, science, philosophy, self-help, non Eastern religion, travel.

Maura Kye-Casella: seeking narrative works (memoirs/adventure/true crime), parenting, cookbooks, pop culture and humor.

Katie Grimm: quirky or edgy narrative non-fiction, both serious and more commercial history, pressing cultural and social issues, memoir with distinct voice, religion from a historical or sociological point of view, narrative science and medical, multi-cultural, and counter-culture. *Please include first chapter with query.*

Katie Kotchman: true crime, pop culture, photography, animals/pets, fashion, narrative non-fiction

client list: Ray Bradbury, David Sedaris, Kathryn Stockett, Russell Baker, Edna Buchanan, Ellen Gilchrist, Richard Matheson, among others.

send: Query only

looking for: Non-Fiction Book

 
 
Updated November 10th, 2009
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The Gernert Company is a literary agency located in Manhattan. Founded in 1996 by David Gernert, the agency currently represents over 100 authors and has four full-time agents.

Please send a query letter, either by mail or email, describing the work you’d like to submit, along with some information about yourself and a sample chapter if appropriate. Please do not send emails to individual agents; use the mail and MANUALLY indicate which agent you’re querying. If sending by mail, please include a SASE for response.

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agents: David Gernert, Sarah Burnes, Allison Cohen, Stephanie Cabot, Courtney Gatewood, Chris Parris-Lamb, Will Roberts, Erika Storella

interested in: They represent equal parts fiction (commercial and literary writers, both well-known and soon-to-be, whether writing for adults or younger readers) and nonfiction (biographers, memoirists, journalists, essayists, bloggers, and writers of trade and scholarly nonfiction in subjects ranging from sports and history to current events and science).

Sarah: As an editor, she acquired and edited literary fiction and non-fiction, and as an agent has added children's fiction to her list. She is always on the lookout for sharp, original voices.

Courtney: does not accept queries

Chris: Things he likes include, but are not limited to, college basketball, fly-fishing, most forms of musical expression, and novels that engage the reader through both their prose and their story.

Will: His main interests are history, politics and fiction.

Erika: her personal library includes literary fiction and memoir, as well as works on history, contemporary art and theory, sociology, and crafts.

client list: John Grisham, Alexandra Potter, Stella Duffy, Stewart O'Nan, Nicholas Griffith

send: Query and Partial MS

looking for: Non-Fiction Book