agents: Meredith Bernstein

interested in: Fiction and Non-Fiction: Animal-related, Art, Biography, Parenting, Art, TV/Film, Erotica, LGBT, Horror, Literary, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Thrillers, Fiction, Health, How-to, Humor, History, Non-fiction, Psychology, Self-Help, Religious/Inspirational, Sports/Collectibles, Travel, Women's Interests

client list: Why Women Lie by Susan Barest, Brides's Diplomacy Guide by Sharon Naylor

send: Query only

looking for: Novel

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

interested in: Michael Congdon: Commercial (Mysteries, Thrillers) and literary Fiction.

Susan Ramer: Literary fiction and up-market women’s fiction (contemporary and historical). In any work, she is first drawn to a strong, distinctive voice, and she likes her humor on the dark side.

Cristina Concepcion: Fiction: intelligent and thought provoking commercial or literary novels with a dramatic story and interesting characters, mysteries, thrillers, historicals with suspense.

Maura Kye-Casella: Literary works, YA novels, women’s fiction (especially suspense), paranormals, thrillers, multicultural voices, and any well-written novels with an edgy voice, quirky characters and/or unique plots and settings.

Katie Grimm: Literary and commercial Fiction, historical, middle grade, young adult, up-market women’s fiction, mysteries & thrillers, novels with some fantastical or futuristic elements, children’s and short story collections. *Please include first chapter with query.*

Katie Kotchman: Literary fiction, mystery, thriller, suspense, up-market women’s fiction, young adult fiction

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

send: Query only

looking for: Novel

agents: Michael Psaltis

interested in: We represent a wide array of areas of nonfiction, including science, health, parenting, psychology, business, biography/memoir, history, reference, current events, and narrative nonfiction. We represent all areas of commercial fiction, both mainstream novels and genre titles. We do not represent authors of poetry or short fiction.

Michael Psaltis is particularly interested in narrative nonfiction and commercial fiction that has a unique voice and compelling story.

looking for: Novel

agents: Kirsten Wolf, Adriann Ranta

interested in: Kirsten Wolf: Fiction (including children's and YA) and non-fiction.

On the fiction side, she's looking for commercial women's fiction, particularly romance and erotica, and gothic/horror novels, as well as aggressive and provocative speculative/edgy fiction.

On the children's book side, she's mostly interested in young adult/middle grade fiction, particularly those that feature new and original voices.

Adriann Ranta: Fiction and limited non-fiction, with an emphasis on children’s and YA.

She is most interested in realistic, true-to-life stories with conflicts based in the real world. She likes edgy, dark, challenging voices, unique settings, and everyman stories told with a new spin.

She is open to all genres for all age levels, though is not currently interested in self-help, spiritualism, religion, or sci-fi.

client list: DISCORDIA and DISCORDIA REVERSED by Dena Salmon (Hyperion Books for Children), I KNOW IT'S OVER by C.K. Kelly Martin (Random House Books for Young Readers), THE PRICKER BOY by Reade Scott Whinnem

send: Query and Partial MS

looking for: Novel

agents: Sara Camilli

interested in: FIction: Erotica, Horror, women's lit

Non-fiction: lifestyle, African-American, Pop Culture, Social Issues

client list: Verbal Penetration by Zane Whispers in the Night by Brandon Massey, Sinful by Victor McGlothlin, Keepin' It Real: The Rise of Bullshit In The Black Community by Sabrina Lamb, Waking With Enemies by Eric Jerome Dickey

send: Query Only

looking for: Novel

agents: Paula Balzer

interested in: Represents fiction and non-fiction books.

For fiction: LGBT, erotica, horror, women, humor, mystery, thriller.

client list: What's Up Dawg? by Randy Jackson and K. C. Baker, Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities by Alexandra Robbins, Dear Mrs. Lindbergh: A Novel by Kathleen Hughes, Confessions of a Nervous Shiksa by Tracy McArdle

send: Query Only

looking for: Novel

agents: Frank Weimann, John Schuster, Jaimee Garbacik, Priya Ratneshwar

interested in: Fiction and Non-fiction.

Fiction: Children's, Fantasy, Historical, Horror, Science Fiction, Women's Fiction, Young Adult

Non-fiction: Biography, Business, Health & Fitness, Humor, Memoirs, Music & Dance, Pop Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Self-Help, True Crime

client list: The Alchemyst by Michael Scott, The Far Reaches by Homer Hickam; Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley; and Dog and Bear By Laura Vaccaro Seeger, The I Chong: Meditations from the Joint by Tommy Chong, Keep It Simple by Terry Bradshaw and David Fisher, The First American: The Life And Times Of Benjamin Franklin by H.W. Brands, Patton and Rommel by Dennis Showalter, T.O. by Terrell Owens

send: Query and Partial MS

looking for: Novel

agents: Steve Axelrod

interested in: Fiction: General fiction, Romance, Juvenile fiction, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller

client list: Surrender- Amanda Quick, Hush- Anne Frasier, China Trade- S. J. Rozan, Just Desserts- Barbara Bretton

send: Query only

looking for: Novel

agents: Richard Henshaw
Susannah Taylor

interested in: Fiction
We are interested in mainstream and genre fiction including mysteries and thrillers, science fiction, fantasy, romance, historicals and literature. We are interested in, but extremely selective of, horror and young adult. Generally speaking, a horror or young adult author should have previous publishing credits in their genre.

Non-Fiction
Mainstream non-fiction including; business, celebrity biography, computers, current events, health, history, how-to, movies, popular culture, popular reference, popular science, psychology, self-help, and sports. We are also interested in working with projects that can be adapted to new media formats.

Currently Richard is interested in...
I'm interested in all that is listed above but would really like to see a good legal thriller with a female protagonist, edgy and/or literary thrillers, adult sf (hard) and fantasy (urban or dark), narrative nonfiction, adventure stories and mouth-watering food and wine writing. I have very broad tastes in nonfiction.

Currently Susannah is interested in...
Non-fiction that is witty, fresh and for the popular market. I like fiction with a happy ending. I'm looking for witty writing, voice- especially in women's fiction- and diabolically clever plotting in mysteries and thrillers. As with everyone in this industry, I want something new and unique but still marketable.

client list: Peggy Allen, Susan Wise Bauer, Susan Brown, Jay Caselberg, Margaret Coel, Ronald Anthony Cross, William Dettloff, James Doss, Micah Harris, Elizabeth Hoyt, Judith Laik

send: Query and Partial MS

looking for: Novel

agents: Richard Curtis

interested in: Fiction: literary, commercial, science fiction, fantasy, romance, westerns, thrillers, and horror

Non-fiction: narrative and journalistic non-fiction, history, biography, business, computers, medicine, science

client list: TERROR by Dan Simmons, RUNNER by William C. Dietz, THE DYING GAME by Beverly Barton, PENDRAGON by DJ MacHale

send: Query Only

looking for: Novel