interested in: General Fiction, general mystery, sci-fi, fantasy, YA.

client list: "A Prisoner of Birth" by Jeffrey Archer, "Power Play" by Joseph Finder

looking for: Novel

interested in: Albert Whitman & Company publishes approximately thirty books per year for the trade, library, and school library market.

We have an open submissions policy: we will read unsolicited work, which means that it is not necessary for writers to submit through a literary agent.

We are interested in reviewing the following types of work:
Picture book manuscripts for ages 2-8.
Novels and chapter books for ages 8-12.
Nonfiction for ages 3-12.
Art samples showing pictures of children.

client list: "The Boxcar Children" mystery books, "Isabel's Car Wash" Author: Sheila Bair

send: Query and Partial MS

looking for: Novel

interested in: Manic D Press was founded by Jennifer Joseph in 1984. An award-winning literary press based in San Francisco, California publishing fiction, poetry, pop culture, music, art, narrative-oriented comix, and alternative travel books, they represent a diverse group of unique writers and artists, with emphasis on those who have been shunned by the traditional publishing establishment for lacking commercial viability, regardless of their talent or future promise.

client list: "PO MAN'S CHILD: A Novel" by Marci Blackman, "GUTTER BOYS: A Novel" by Alvin Orloff, "TRAIN WRECK GIRL" a novel by Sean Carswell

send: Query and Partial MS

looking for: Novel

interested in: Founded in 1994 by Susan Petersen Kennedy, Riverhead Books is now well-established as a publisher of bestselling literary fiction and quality non-fiction. Throughout its history, Riverhead Books has been dedicated to publishing extraordinary, ground-breaking, unique fiction and non-fiction writers. Riverhead's books have won Pulitzer Prizes, National Book Critic Circle Awards, and numerous other distinctions.

client list: Nick Hornby, Jack Kerouac, the Dalai Lama

send: Query Only

looking for: Novel

interested in: Little, Brown and Company is part of the Hachette Book Group USA. Publishes literary novels, thrillers, biography, and narrative non-fiction.

client list: Martin Amis, Michael Connelly, R. Crumb, John Feinstein, Janet Fitch, Peter Guralnick, Mark Leyner, Rick Moody, Walter Mosley, James Patterson, George Pelecanos, Alice Sebold, David Sedaris, Anita Shreve, Nick Tosches, David Foster Wallace, and Stephen Wright.

looking for: Novel

interested in: With a growing Pocket Books hardcover list and the successful publishing of such books as Jennifer Lauck's Blackbird, Jennifer Weiner's Good In Bed, and Shanghai Baby by Wei Hui, came the founding, in June 2001 of a new imprint -- Atria Books. A commercial fiction and non-fiction publishing house pledged to bring the world a wealth of timely, important, and entertaining publications. Atria Books is the home of several best-selling authors including Judith McNaught, Vince Flynn, Jude Deveraux and his Holiness the Dalai Lama. Atria Books also publishes literary fiction and serious non-fiction hardcover books as well as trade paperbacks under the Washington Square Press imprint.

client list: "The First Commandment: A Thriller" by Brad Thor, "Handle with Care: A Novel" by Jodi Picoult

looking for: Novel

interested in: Romance novels, mysteries, suspense, westerns. "Star Trek" novels under its PocketBook imprint. Children's books, fantasy, mystery, historical, Young Adult, contemporary Fiction.

client list: "Star Trek" Novels, Kate Morton, "Blaze: A Novel" By Richard Bachman Foreword by Stephen King, "Spiderwick" by Holly Black

looking for: Novel

interested in: Grand Central Publishing (formerly Warner Books) is part of the Hachette Book Group USA. Primary areas of interest are fiction and current events.

client list: AMERICA (The Book) by Jon Stewart and the writers of The Daily Show, DUDE, WHERE’S MY COUNTRY? by Michael Moore, and I AM AMERICA (AND SO CAN YOU!) by Stephen Colbert. Other Grand Central Publishing authors include: Bob Colacello, Nicholas Delbanco, Nelson DeMille, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Jane Goodall, Billie Letts, Brad Meltzer, Jacqueline Mitchard, Rosie O’Donnell, Anne Rivers Siddons, Nicholas Sparks and Lalita Tademy.

looking for: Novel

interested in: For the past fifteen consecutive years, G.P. Putnam's Sons has led the publishing industry with more hardcover fiction and nonfiction New York Times bestsellers than any other imprint in the publishing industry. Its impressive list of award-winning, bestselling authors is well-known around the world. With its rich history and unrivaled bestselling track record, G.P. Putnam's Sons continues to be one of the most respected and prestigious imprints in the industry.

client list: Lance Armstrong, Goldie Hawn, Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo

looking for: Non-Fiction Book

interested in: Vision is part of the Hachette Book Group USA. Vision is the mass market imprint for the best in blockbuster fiction.

client list: James Patterson Michael Connelly Eric Van Lustbader

looking for: Novel