agents: Doe Coover, Colleen Mohyde, Amanda Lewis

interested in: Doe: non-fiction titles, with a concentration in cookbooks, business, health, social issues, science, family psychology, and history

Colleen: literary fiction, narrative non-fiction, biography, business, psychology, health, sports, music, history, and politics

Amanda: children’s books, young adult and middle-grade fiction and non-fiction, picture books, and children’s reference.

client list: The Calder Game by Blue Balliett (Scholastic), Fiesta@Rick’s by Rick Bayless (Norton), Savory Pastries and Baking by Mary Cech (Chronicle Books), Spoils of War: The Fate of Culture in Times of Conflict by Ricardo Elia (Yale University Press), Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and the Business of Life by David Allen (Penguin), Skeletons in the Sand: The Story of a Dinosaur Expedition by Paul Sereno (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), American Fruit Desserts by Deborah Madison (Broadway)

send: Query and Partial MS

looking for: Non-Fiction Book

agents: Laura Bradford

interested in: Fiction: romance, erotica, women’s fiction, mystery, thrillers and young adult. Also represents non-fiction and other fiction genres.

client list: Beth Kery’s TEMPTATIONS OF TIME, Lauren Dane’s UNDERCOVER, Anya Bast’s THE CHOSEN SIN, Megan Hart and Lauren Dane’s TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS, Beth Kery’s WICKED BURN

send: Book Proposal

looking for: Non-Fiction Book

agents: Barbara L. Ellis, Konstantin Sidorenko, Hannah Greenberg

interested in: Non-fiction: memoirs; sociopolitical titles; contemporary politics; titles on the politics of war, the media, political economics, consumerism, women's issues; China; Iran; sharp, commercial narrative nonfiction, including "How to" titles; cutting-edge business titles; commercial titles on popular culture;

Fiction: strong women's fiction with compelling and complex female characters; sophisticated quality thrillers (particularly medical, legal & financial categories); character-driven mysteries; and contemporary Southern fiction. *Please, NO fiction titles involving terrorist plots, unless you have a very strong platform to write on such. No chick-lit titles.

client list: Maggots in My Sweet Potatoes: Women Doing Time by Susan Lankford; The Dog Diet: What My Dog Taught Me About Shedding Pounds, Licking Stress and Getting a New Leash on Life by Patti Lawson; The Thunder of Angels: Behind the Scenes of Segregation by Donnie Williams with Wayne Greenhaw; Subway People by David Perlmutter and Stanley Fischler; Aldous Huxley by Dana Sawyer

send: Query Only

looking for: Novel

agents: Marcia Amsterdam

interested in: Fiction, horror, suspense, humor, young adult, Science Fiction, Chick Lit, Fantasy, Humor/Satire. Enjoys humorous stories. Interested in medical and legal thrillers within the suspense genre. She likes character-driven SF and horror

Also reads TV and film scripts

client list: Back Slash by William H. Lovejoy, Takedown by Joyce Sweeney, Marshall Cavendish

send: Query and Partial MS

looking for: Novel

agents: Henry Dunow, Jennifer Carlson, Betsy Lerner, Erin Hosier, Yishai Seidman

interested in: Literary and commercial fiction, narrative nonfiction, memoir, popular culture and young adult fiction

Jennifer: fiction, nonfiction, YA and childrens

Henry: literary, historical, strongly written commercial fiction, nonfiction: narrative history, biography, memoir, current affairs, cultural trends and criticism, science, sport

Erin: nonfiction- popular culture, music, sociology and memoir

Betsy: fiction and non-fiction- psychology, history, cultural studies, biography, current events, business

Yishai: fiction including literary, postmodern, and thrillers. On the nonfiction side, he likes books on sports, music, and pop culture.

client list: Naomi Alderman, Josh Amatore Hughes, Whitney Pastorek, Justin Peacock, Andrew Dice Clay, Patti Smith, Tony Perrottet, Max Phillips, Stephen Amidon, Zoetrope:All-Story , Regan McMahon, Tracy McMillan, Bob Mehr, Leslie Arfin

send: Query only

looking for: Non-Fiction Book

agents: Denise Marcil, Maura Kye-Casella, Anne Marie O’Farrell, Chris Morehouse (F), Katie Kotchman

interested in: Fiction: thrillers, suspense novels, and women's fiction, especially Latina and African American fiction

Non-fiction: self-help, reference, parenting, business, spirituality, and biographies. Especially interested in authors with national platforms such as national seminars, columns, television and radio shows.

Denise: suspense, crime novels, popular women’s fiction, self-help, health, women’s issues, business, and parenting.

Maura: memoirs, adventure, true crime, parenting, cookbooks, pop culture, humor, literary novels, women’s fiction (especially suspense), paranormals, thrillers, and multicultural voices

Anne: quantum physics, new age, business, human potential, personal growth/self-help, healing, children’s books, drama and acting

Chris: sports, memoirs, Biographies, historical fiction and young adult fiction and non-fiction

Katie: thrillers, noir mystery, young adult, women’s fiction, pop culture, history/politics/current affairs, and true crime

client list: Susan Annunzio- Contagious Success, Nina Atwood- Soul Talk, Father Edward L Beck- God Underneath, Rosanne Bittner- Into the Valley, Debra Fulghum Bruce, PhD- Making a Baby: Everything You Need to Know to Get Pregnant

send: Query only

looking for: Non-Fiction Book

agents: Lynda Gregory
Merry Gregory Pantano

interested in: Adult fiction and nonfiction.
Children's literature will be considered.

client list: Joyce Carol Oates- WITH SHUDDERING FALL (and many other titles), Dorothy B.Hughes- THE CROSS-EYED BEAR, James Presley- CENTER OF THE STORM with John Scopes, Paul Theroux- WALDO, Neal Bowers- LOOSE ENDS, Lilian Jackson Braun- THE CAT WHO COULD READ BACKWARDA, Annie Dillard- PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK, Waldemar Hansen- THE PEACOCK THRONE: The Drama of Mogul India, Ann Head- MR. AND MRS. BO JO JONES

send: Query only

looking for: Non-Fiction Book

agents: Timothy Wager

interested in: Literary fiction and general-interest nonfiction

I do not handle screenplays, children's books, romance, or science fiction. Memoirs and most genre fiction (other than crime or noir) are a serious long shot, too.

client list: Michael Tisserand - Sugarcane Academy, Richard Lange - Dead Boys, Demaree Inglese and Diana Gallagher - No Ordinary Heroes, Bruce E. Levine - Surviving America's Depression Epidemic

send: Query only

looking for: Non-Fiction Book

agents: Madeline Perrone (President), Sam Fleishman (Vice President)

interested in: Literary Artists Representatives (LAR) is a full-service literary agency which emphasizes nonfiction trade books. From time to time, LAR represents a work of quality fiction which agency deems distinctive and compelling.

LAR's specific interests and strengths are in narrative nonfiction, biography, memoir, current affairs, business, culture, history, how-to, film/TV, personal finance/investment, science, sports, motivational and mind/body/spirit. As a general rule, LAR does not handle books for young readers.

client list: WISE INVESTING MADE SIMPLE: Larry Swedroe's Tales to Enrich Your Future By Larry Swedroe, KENTUCKY FRIED THEATER by Rich Markey, ONE WEEK: No House, No Spouse by Julie Cwikla, THE RUBBER ROOM by Christopher Kerrigan Damrosch, DIVINE ELECTIONS: How Religion Helped Americans Choose Their Presidents by Andrew M. Manis, Ph.D.

send: Query Only

looking for: Non-Fiction Book

agents: Greg Daniel

interested in: Non-fiction and fiction books for Christian adults

client list: The Secret Message of Jesus: Uncovering the Truth that Could Change Everything by Brian McLaren, Same Kind Of Different As Me by Ron Hall and Denver Moore, God In My Corner: A Spiritual Memoir by George Foreman, The Thrill of the Chaste: Finding Fulfillment While Keeping Your Clothes On by Dawn Eden

send: Book Proposal

looking for: Non-Fiction Book