Post by Admin on Sept 3, 2016 14:31:36 GMT
This is one of the agencies that is on my short list to work with. If I was going to submit to them with a future project I would go back to their website and look it over to see who is taking new work and what kind of story they are looking for. Trying to figure out a good fit before I ever submit to them.
Writer’s House
Al Zuckerman, a former novelist, TV writer, and teacher of playwriting at Yale, is the founder of Writers House. One of the largest literary agencies in the world, Writers House prides itself on providing an extraordinary amount of individual client attention combined with the full service benefits of foreign and sub rights departments as well as a four person accounting and royalty staff. Home to 14 agents and several rising junior agents, we work individually as well as collectively and take full advantage of the unparalleled depth of experience we embody. Some of our agents started here as assistants, while others have joined us from other parts of the business, bringing editorial, book selling, writing, and legal experience. We also pride ourselves on the stability of our firm. Many of our agents have been here together for more than 20 years, as have many of our clients. Writers House is a name which reflects our vision for our authors and ourselves. Our goals are long term and the environment we strive to create is one that invites authors and agents to stay with us for the duration of their careers
Al Zuckerman, a former novelist, TV writer, and teacher of playwriting at Yale, is the founder of Writers House. One of the largest literary agencies in the world, Writers House prides itself on providing an extraordinary amount of individual client attention combined with the full service benefits of foreign and sub rights departments as well as a four person accounting and royalty staff. Home to 14 agents and several rising junior agents, we work individually as well as collectively and take full advantage of the unparalleled depth of experience we embody. Some of our agents started here as assistants, while others have joined us from other parts of the business, bringing editorial, book selling, writing, and legal experience. We also pride ourselves on the stability of our firm. Many of our agents have been here together for more than 20 years, as have many of our clients. Writers House is a name which reflects our vision for our authors and ourselves. Our goals are long term and the environment we strive to create is one that invites authors and agents to stay with us for the duration of their careers.
Senior Agents:
• Amy Berkower
• Albert Zuckerman
• Susan Cohen
• Dan Conaway
• Susan Ginsburg
• Leigh Feldman
• Merrilee Heifetz
• Daniel Lazar
• Simon Lipskar
• Steven Malk
• Jodi Reamer, Esq.
• Michele Rubin
• Robin Rue
• Rebecca Sherman
• Kenneth Wright
• Maja Nikolic, Subsidiary Rights Director
• Angharad Kowal, British Rights Director
• Cecilia de la Campa, Children’s Subsidiary Rights Director
Junior Agents:
• Stephen Barr
Submissions Guidelines
Writers House represents fiction and non-fiction, for both adult and juvenile books. Our agents work with literary and commercial fiction, women's fiction, science fiction/fantasy, narrative non-fiction, history, memoirs, biographies, books on psychology, science, parenting, cookbooks, how-to, self-help, business, finance, young adult and juvenile fiction/non-fiction and picture books.
Please send us a query letter of no more than two pages, which includes your credentials, an explanation of what makes your book unique and special, and a synopsis. Also, please include a self-addressed-stamped-envelope for our reply, which generally takes six to eight weeks.
We receive hundreds of submissions a month, all of which receive careful consideration. This takes time, so we encourage your patience. If we request your manuscript, we prefer that you send it to us on an exclusive basis.
Rebecca Sherman (query about Cosmos)
or over 30 years, Writers House has played a critical role in developing novelists and non-fiction authors. We have one of the industry's finest lists of juvenile and young adult authors.
As I continue to build my own list of middle grade and young adult novelists, I'm looking for books with something to say, books that make me laugh, and characters that truly remind me of how confounding and wonderful (ridiculous! frightening! glorious!) adolescence can be.
I am also looking for picture books by author/illustrators that can hold up to readings night after night.
In addition to books for the children's market, I'm a huge fan of all things pop-culture and looking for non-fiction books in this genre as well as lifestyle, humor and narrative non-fiction for the 18-35 audience.
Please read my submission guidelines. I look forward to hearing from you.
________________________________________
Steve Barr
Stephen Barr
Writers House, LLC
21 West 26th Street, New York, NY 10010
years 3
web www.writershouse.com
St. Martin's, 2011
Writers House has been around for almost forty years, and in addition to being an actual house (it's true! Check our website!), it's one of the largest literary agencies in the industry, representing fiction and non-fiction of every stripe.
I've been with Writers House for a little over three years now, and although I'm not an actual house (it's true!), I'm a pretty omnivorous agent. At the moment, I've got a particular hankering for unexpected memoirs with itchy voices, narrative non-fiction that tackles hard-to-tackle issues, and fiction that rewards the reader line-by-line and gets to know at least one character really, really well (recent favorites include Jeff In Venice, The Lazarus Project, Diary of a Bad Year, and Horns, which was awesome). I'm also willing to be a sucker for mysteries that bend reality, ghost stories that blow reality to hell, humor that's more than just an infinitely repeated gag in sheep's clothing, and Secret Book X (I don't know what Secret Book X is, but suffice it to say, I'm open to the occasional curveball).
I'm still in the early stages of building my list, and I have almost zero emotional baggage, so I'm ready to fall in love (with your book)!
GENRES & SPECIALTIES
Literary fiction
Memoir
Narrative non-fiction
Middle grade
Picture books
Young adult Graphic novels
Humor
Pop-culture
Food stuff
Weird stuff
LEADING CLIENTS
Sam Brown (www.explodingdog.com)
Adele Enersen (www.milasdaydreams.com)
Bethany Barton (www.thehonestyrevolution.com)
MOST RECENT SALES / FORTHCOMING BOOKS
Adult titles:
BURIED IN THE SKY, Peter Zuckerman and Amanda Padoan (W.W. Norton); PUNCHING TOM HANKS, Kevin Seccia (St. Martin's); STREET FREAK, Jared Dillian (Touchstone)
Children's titles:
THIS MONSTER NEEDS A HAIRCUT, Bethany Barton (Dutton); WHEN MY BABY DREAMS, Adele Enersen (Balzer + Bray)
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
You can send me a query letter by post or by e-mail (odds are I'll respond to the digital ones sooner, though), so just make sure to include the first five or ten pages of your manuscript (and a self addressed stamped envelope if it's snail mail), then fire away! I promise to fire back, hopefully within a week's time.
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Writer’s House
Al Zuckerman, a former novelist, TV writer, and teacher of playwriting at Yale, is the founder of Writers House. One of the largest literary agencies in the world, Writers House prides itself on providing an extraordinary amount of individual client attention combined with the full service benefits of foreign and sub rights departments as well as a four person accounting and royalty staff. Home to 14 agents and several rising junior agents, we work individually as well as collectively and take full advantage of the unparalleled depth of experience we embody. Some of our agents started here as assistants, while others have joined us from other parts of the business, bringing editorial, book selling, writing, and legal experience. We also pride ourselves on the stability of our firm. Many of our agents have been here together for more than 20 years, as have many of our clients. Writers House is a name which reflects our vision for our authors and ourselves. Our goals are long term and the environment we strive to create is one that invites authors and agents to stay with us for the duration of their careers
Al Zuckerman, a former novelist, TV writer, and teacher of playwriting at Yale, is the founder of Writers House. One of the largest literary agencies in the world, Writers House prides itself on providing an extraordinary amount of individual client attention combined with the full service benefits of foreign and sub rights departments as well as a four person accounting and royalty staff. Home to 14 agents and several rising junior agents, we work individually as well as collectively and take full advantage of the unparalleled depth of experience we embody. Some of our agents started here as assistants, while others have joined us from other parts of the business, bringing editorial, book selling, writing, and legal experience. We also pride ourselves on the stability of our firm. Many of our agents have been here together for more than 20 years, as have many of our clients. Writers House is a name which reflects our vision for our authors and ourselves. Our goals are long term and the environment we strive to create is one that invites authors and agents to stay with us for the duration of their careers.
Senior Agents:
• Amy Berkower
• Albert Zuckerman
• Susan Cohen
• Dan Conaway
• Susan Ginsburg
• Leigh Feldman
• Merrilee Heifetz
• Daniel Lazar
• Simon Lipskar
• Steven Malk
• Jodi Reamer, Esq.
• Michele Rubin
• Robin Rue
• Rebecca Sherman
• Kenneth Wright
• Maja Nikolic, Subsidiary Rights Director
• Angharad Kowal, British Rights Director
• Cecilia de la Campa, Children’s Subsidiary Rights Director
Junior Agents:
• Stephen Barr
Submissions Guidelines
Writers House represents fiction and non-fiction, for both adult and juvenile books. Our agents work with literary and commercial fiction, women's fiction, science fiction/fantasy, narrative non-fiction, history, memoirs, biographies, books on psychology, science, parenting, cookbooks, how-to, self-help, business, finance, young adult and juvenile fiction/non-fiction and picture books.
Please send us a query letter of no more than two pages, which includes your credentials, an explanation of what makes your book unique and special, and a synopsis. Also, please include a self-addressed-stamped-envelope for our reply, which generally takes six to eight weeks.
We receive hundreds of submissions a month, all of which receive careful consideration. This takes time, so we encourage your patience. If we request your manuscript, we prefer that you send it to us on an exclusive basis.
Rebecca Sherman (query about Cosmos)
or over 30 years, Writers House has played a critical role in developing novelists and non-fiction authors. We have one of the industry's finest lists of juvenile and young adult authors.
As I continue to build my own list of middle grade and young adult novelists, I'm looking for books with something to say, books that make me laugh, and characters that truly remind me of how confounding and wonderful (ridiculous! frightening! glorious!) adolescence can be.
I am also looking for picture books by author/illustrators that can hold up to readings night after night.
In addition to books for the children's market, I'm a huge fan of all things pop-culture and looking for non-fiction books in this genre as well as lifestyle, humor and narrative non-fiction for the 18-35 audience.
Please read my submission guidelines. I look forward to hearing from you.
________________________________________
Steve Barr
Stephen Barr
Writers House, LLC
21 West 26th Street, New York, NY 10010
years 3
web www.writershouse.com
St. Martin's, 2011
Writers House has been around for almost forty years, and in addition to being an actual house (it's true! Check our website!), it's one of the largest literary agencies in the industry, representing fiction and non-fiction of every stripe.
I've been with Writers House for a little over three years now, and although I'm not an actual house (it's true!), I'm a pretty omnivorous agent. At the moment, I've got a particular hankering for unexpected memoirs with itchy voices, narrative non-fiction that tackles hard-to-tackle issues, and fiction that rewards the reader line-by-line and gets to know at least one character really, really well (recent favorites include Jeff In Venice, The Lazarus Project, Diary of a Bad Year, and Horns, which was awesome). I'm also willing to be a sucker for mysteries that bend reality, ghost stories that blow reality to hell, humor that's more than just an infinitely repeated gag in sheep's clothing, and Secret Book X (I don't know what Secret Book X is, but suffice it to say, I'm open to the occasional curveball).
I'm still in the early stages of building my list, and I have almost zero emotional baggage, so I'm ready to fall in love (with your book)!
GENRES & SPECIALTIES
Literary fiction
Memoir
Narrative non-fiction
Middle grade
Picture books
Young adult Graphic novels
Humor
Pop-culture
Food stuff
Weird stuff
LEADING CLIENTS
Sam Brown (www.explodingdog.com)
Adele Enersen (www.milasdaydreams.com)
Bethany Barton (www.thehonestyrevolution.com)
MOST RECENT SALES / FORTHCOMING BOOKS
Adult titles:
BURIED IN THE SKY, Peter Zuckerman and Amanda Padoan (W.W. Norton); PUNCHING TOM HANKS, Kevin Seccia (St. Martin's); STREET FREAK, Jared Dillian (Touchstone)
Children's titles:
THIS MONSTER NEEDS A HAIRCUT, Bethany Barton (Dutton); WHEN MY BABY DREAMS, Adele Enersen (Balzer + Bray)
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
You can send me a query letter by post or by e-mail (odds are I'll respond to the digital ones sooner, though), so just make sure to include the first five or ten pages of your manuscript (and a self addressed stamped envelope if it's snail mail), then fire away! I promise to fire back, hopefully within a week's time.
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