I'm excited to welcome to the blog this week, Agent Linda Camacho of Gallt & Zacker Literary Agency. About Linda: Linda was always a fan of escaping into a good book, so the fact that she gets to make it her career is still surreal. She graduated...
I’m excited to welcome to the blog this week the Senior Vice President of Trident Media Group, Alyssa Eisner Henkin. Alyssa’s also offering a partial critique (open to cbs and mg) to one lucky winner (details follow the interview). 1) What's a day in the life...
I’m excited to welcome to the blog this week, agent extraordinaire, Jennifer Laughran of the Andrea Brown Literary Agency. About Jennifer: Jennifer is a Senior Agent at the Andrea Brown Literary Agency, where she has been repping authors since 2008. She represents select author-illustrators of picture books and graphic...
1) What's a day in the life of literary agent Adria Goetz like? I primarily work from my home office, which is about an hour south of Seattle in a Victorian farmhouse built in 1890. I wake up and have a cup of coffee with my...
About Alexandra: Alexandra Levick has worked with a wide range of established New York Times bestsellers, national award winners, and debut clients. After graduating from the University of Rochester with a degree in English focused on Creative Writing, Alexandra attended New York University where she...
About Laurel: Laurel Symonds recently launched as a literary agent at The Bent Agency after nearly a decade of experience in the publishing industry. She began her career in the editorial department of HarperCollins Children’s Books/Katherine Tegen Books in New York City and has also...
About James: Since interning at BookEnds as an undergrad in the summer of 2015, James has (basically) never left. He's just continuously level-up-ed inside of BookEnds. Now he is the Literary Assistant and Social Media Manager for the team. James is a Staten Island native, and...
About Thao: Thao Le is a literary agent at the Dijkstra Agency since 2011. She represents Children’s (i.e. picture books by author-illustrators and middle grade fiction) and Young Adult across genres and in the adult realm is looking for romantic leaning Fantasy and Light Science Fiction. In...
About Marietta: Marietta has worked with books, authors and illustrators throughout her career -- studying, creating, editing, marketing, teaching and selling. She takes pride in her work as a Latina in the world of publishing. She is always on the lookout for visual and narrative...
About Sean: Sean McCarthy founded his own full-service literary agency in 2013. He began his publishing career as an editorial intern at Overlook Press and then worked at the Sheldon Fogelman Agency as the submissions coordinator and permissions manager before becoming a full-time literary agent. He works...