and deeply empathetic—both in
your writing and in your contribu-
tions to literary society.”FELICIA ETH
FELICIA ETH
LITERARY
REPRESENTATION
SAN FRANCISCO AND
PALO ALTO, CALIF.
ETHLITERARY.COMFICTION INTERESTS: “Literary acces-
sible fi ction, historical, and sus-
pense novels with a literary bent
that transcend genre, novels with a
magical realism and/or a multicul-
turalelement.”NONFICTIONINTERESTS:
Narrativenonfictionincluding
culturalorsocialhistory,journal-
ism,unusualtravelbooks,popular
science,psychologicalandsocial
concerns,women’sissues,freshpar-
entingideas,culinarywriting.DOES
NOTWANT:Genrefiction,poetry,
academicortechnicalbooks,picture
books,chapterbooksforthejuvenile
market,YA,Christianbooks,humor,
how-to,screenplays.RECENTSALES:
A PlaceOutsidetheLaw:Forgotten
VoicesfromGuantanamobyPeter
JanHonigsberg(journalism,Beacon
Press); 100 Days:HowFourEvents
in 1969 ShapedAmericabyHarlan
Lebo(socialhistory,Rowman&
LittlefieldPublishers);WorkingYou:
A NewCareerSystemfora New
GenerationbyKirkSnyder(nonfic-
tioncareer,TenSpeedPress/Penguin
RandomHouse).HOWTOSUBMIT:
Senda querytofeliciaeth.literary@
gmail.comintroducingyourself,your
book,andwritingbackground.For
fiction,donotsendsamplepages.
Fornonfiction,indicatewhatyou
havewritten(proposal,manuscript).
Forwriterlynonfiction(narra-
tives,bio,memoir)indicateif you’ve
finishedthemanuscript.Includeexpertise, platform, and notoriety, if
any. TIPS FOR WRITERS: “Please send
a reminder in four weeks if you’ve
received no answer.”SAMANTHA FABIEN
LAURA DAIL
LITERARY AGENCY
NEW YORK CITY
LDLAINC.COM
@SAMANTHASHNHFICTION INTERESTS: “Commercial
and high-concept adult fi ction; non-
Western historical fi ction (specifi -
cally on the lookout for stories set
in 1600s–1800s or 1920s–1970s);
psychologicalthrillers;fresh,unique
rom-coms;contemporarymiddle-
gradeandYA(especiallyre-imag-
iningsofclassictales);grounded
YAfantasywithrichcharactersand
word-building;allthingsdiverse
and#ownvoices.”DOESNOTWANT:
Nonfiction,screenplays,poetry,
illustratedadultbooks.HOWTO
SUBMIT:Senda conciseemailquery
[email protected]
with“QUERY”andthebook’stitle,
include“SamanthaFabien”inthe
subjectfield.Inthequeryinclude
a shortpitch,shortplotsummary,
andshortbio.Pastethefirst5–10
pagesofyournovelintheemail.
Synopsisoptional.TIPSFORWRITERS:
“Saywhatmakesyoursubmission
differentasquicklyaspossible.”KEMIFADERIN
DYSTEL,GODERICH&
BOURRETLLC
NEWYORKCITY
DYSTEL.COM
@KEMIFADERINFICTIONINTERESTS:“Funnyand
uniquepicturebooks,character-
drivenmiddle-grade,historicalfic-
tion,historicalromance(especiallyfeaturing people of color), and
upmarket contemporary women’s
fi ction.” NONFICTION INTERESTS:
Historical nonfi ction, sports (soc-
cer!), pop culture. DOES NOT WANT:
YA, thrillers, poetry. HOW TO SUBMIT:
Send a query to kfaderin@dystel.
com with a writing sample of the
fi rst 25 pages of your manuscript
(fi ction) or your proposal with sam-
ple chapter (nonfi ction) in the body
of the email, double-spaced. Do not
send attachments. TIPS FOR WRITERS:
“If I don’t get back to you aft er six
weeks, please feel free to send me
your query again.”LAUREN GALIT
LKG AGENCY
NEW YORK CITY
LKGAGENCY.COM
@LKGAGENCYFICTION INTERESTS: Middle-grade
(particularly magical realism or
contemporary), YA, contempo-
rary, thrillers, fantasy. NONFICTION
INTERESTS: Parenting, beauty, celeb-
rity, dating and relationships, enter-
tainment, fashion, health/diet/fi t-
ness, home/design, lifestyle, memoir,
narrative, pets, psychology, women’s
focused, middle-grade, YA. DOES
NOT WANT: History, biography, true
crime, religion, picture books, any
fi ction other than middle-grade
or YA. RECENT SALES: Accidental
by Alex Richards (YA, Bloomsbury
Children’s); Th e Popularity Pact
by Eileen Palma (middle-grade,
Running Press) HOW TO SUBMIT: Send
a query to nonfi ction@lkgagency.
com with a table of contents (detailed,
with a paragraph or two overview of
the content of each chapter) and two
chapters. For middle-grade, send a
query, synopsis, and fi rst three chap-
GALIT HEADSHOT © ters to [email protected].
MARY JANE FARNSWORTH
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