2019 Put Your Heart in a Book Conference
Agent Bios and Wishlists
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Name: Marlo Berliner
Agency: The Jennifer De Chiara Agency
Title: Associate Agent
Currently seeking:
I am interested in ALL genres of Romance, except inspirational and erotic. As far as historical, my preference is 1900’s and forward. Genres of particular interest: contemporary, romantic comedy, romantic suspense/thriller, and YA romance. I am also open to women’s fiction, with or without romantic elements.
Currently not seeking:
Inspirational or erotic.
Current authors or clients:
Mimi Cross (2017 Rita Award Finalist for Best First Book), Brittany Kelley (Contemporary Romance Author)
Agency: The Jennifer De Chiara Agency
Title: Associate Agent
Currently seeking:
I am interested in ALL genres of Romance, except inspirational and erotic. As far as historical, my preference is 1900’s and forward. Genres of particular interest: contemporary, romantic comedy, romantic suspense/thriller, and YA romance. I am also open to women’s fiction, with or without romantic elements.
Currently not seeking:
Inspirational or erotic.
Current authors or clients:
Mimi Cross (2017 Rita Award Finalist for Best First Book), Brittany Kelley (Contemporary Romance Author)
Name: Kat Kerr
Agency: Donald Maass Literary Agency
Title: Literary Agent/ Agent
Currently seeking:
Currently not seeking:
Current authors or clients:
Whitney Schneider (@wschneider412)
Other pertinent information or requests:
For conference requests only, please send your query, synopsis, and upload the requested number of pages to http://QueryMe.Online/KatKerr/Conference. All other queries may go through my QueryManager link located at maassagency.com/kat-kerr
Agency: Donald Maass Literary Agency
Title: Literary Agent/ Agent
Currently seeking:
- Adult Contemporary
- Adult Multicultural Lit
- Adult Historical works featuring family sagas
- Science Fiction/Fantasy
- Quirky and fun Women’s Fiction and Rom-Coms
- YA-All genres
Currently not seeking:
- Plots/themes centering around unresolved rape or abuse, or child abuse
- Previously published or self-published works
- MG, Chapter books, picture books
- Novellas, short stories, or poetry collections
- Military/war stories
- Westerns
Current authors or clients:
Whitney Schneider (@wschneider412)
Other pertinent information or requests:
For conference requests only, please send your query, synopsis, and upload the requested number of pages to http://QueryMe.Online/KatKerr/Conference. All other queries may go through my QueryManager link located at maassagency.com/kat-kerr
Name: Megan Manzano
Agency: Corvisiero Literary Agency
Title: Literary Agent Apprentice
Currently seeking:
Middle Grade and Young Adult in the following genres:
Currently not seeking:
Agency: Corvisiero Literary Agency
Title: Literary Agent Apprentice
Currently seeking:
Middle Grade and Young Adult in the following genres:
- Science Fiction: Give me your end of the world disasters, your post-apocalyptic societies, your stories of survival, your stories set in space, time travel, your gripping futuristic worlds filled with robots. Give me virtual reality, AIs, and overall chaos.
- Fantasy: Give me a spin on classic fairytales, magical realism, your everyday societies with a spark of magic, and your gritty urban underground worlds.
- Contemporary: I have a love for some darker contemporary with complex family dynamics or odd jobs or shadows lurking in a forest. I am also massively requesting quiet young adult stories – i.e. stories with more personal and character driven stakes.
Currently not seeking:
- Horror of any kind (demons, ghosts, hauntings, possessions, etc).
- Erotica
- Historical Fiction
- Non-Fiction
- Picture Books
- Graphic Novels
Name: Eva Scalzo
Agency: Speilburg Literary Agency
Title: Literary Agent
Currently seeking:
In Romance:
-Rom-coms that don't veer too far into slapstick, I want to be able to laugh out loud but I want the characters to feel real.
-Contemporary romances that take on complex situations and explore them in emotionally satisfying ways.
-Romantic suspense/thrillers that keep me guessing.
-Paranormal/urban fantasy are evergreen reads, but I'd love to see twists on tropes and a #feminist approach to the story. No damsels in distress, please.
-I'd love to see a sports romance where the heroine is the athlete and sports other than football, hockey, baseball, basketball, and soccer.
-With historicals, I'd like to see some time periods or settings beyond Regency England, even though I do enjoy a good Regency. I'd like to see some LGBTQ or classic retellings.
-Multicultural, LGBTQ, & #OwnVoices.
-Anything with a road trip.
In Young Adult:
-I'd love to see an atmospheric thriller involving a group of friends, a la Riverdale.
-YA rom-coms that are laugh-out-loud funny but characters are not caricatures.
-YA sci-fi/paranormal that has characters on journeys of emotional and personal growth as they overcome challenges unique to their world
-Multicultural, LGBTQ, #OwnVoices
-Must have a strong romantic component, coming-of-age stories do NOT appeal to me.
Currently not seeking:
-No historical YA, no non-fiction, No middle-grade or upper middle-grade, No picture books.
-No motorcycle club, No inspirational, No gratuitous violence or sexual assault, No dead main characters or tragic endings, No pets as secondary characters or main characters for that matter, No sagas or generational romantic dramas.
Current authors or clients:
Mariah Ankenman, Evie Drae, Stacy Hoff, Megan Starks, M.J. Bond, Blake Ferre, K.L. Walther, Rachel Rust, Linda Parisi, Lauren Accardo, Janet Walden-West, Bekah James, Skye McDonald, Sonya Weiss, Becky Dean
Agency: Speilburg Literary Agency
Title: Literary Agent
Currently seeking:
In Romance:
-Rom-coms that don't veer too far into slapstick, I want to be able to laugh out loud but I want the characters to feel real.
-Contemporary romances that take on complex situations and explore them in emotionally satisfying ways.
-Romantic suspense/thrillers that keep me guessing.
-Paranormal/urban fantasy are evergreen reads, but I'd love to see twists on tropes and a #feminist approach to the story. No damsels in distress, please.
-I'd love to see a sports romance where the heroine is the athlete and sports other than football, hockey, baseball, basketball, and soccer.
-With historicals, I'd like to see some time periods or settings beyond Regency England, even though I do enjoy a good Regency. I'd like to see some LGBTQ or classic retellings.
-Multicultural, LGBTQ, & #OwnVoices.
-Anything with a road trip.
In Young Adult:
-I'd love to see an atmospheric thriller involving a group of friends, a la Riverdale.
-YA rom-coms that are laugh-out-loud funny but characters are not caricatures.
-YA sci-fi/paranormal that has characters on journeys of emotional and personal growth as they overcome challenges unique to their world
-Multicultural, LGBTQ, #OwnVoices
-Must have a strong romantic component, coming-of-age stories do NOT appeal to me.
Currently not seeking:
-No historical YA, no non-fiction, No middle-grade or upper middle-grade, No picture books.
-No motorcycle club, No inspirational, No gratuitous violence or sexual assault, No dead main characters or tragic endings, No pets as secondary characters or main characters for that matter, No sagas or generational romantic dramas.
Current authors or clients:
Mariah Ankenman, Evie Drae, Stacy Hoff, Megan Starks, M.J. Bond, Blake Ferre, K.L. Walther, Rachel Rust, Linda Parisi, Lauren Accardo, Janet Walden-West, Bekah James, Skye McDonald, Sonya Weiss, Becky Dean
Name: Ann Leslie Tuttle
Agency: Dystel, Goderich & Bourret
Title: Agent
Currently seeking:
Contemporary romance, rom coms, romances showcasing diverse voice, medical romances, women’s fiction (e.g. mother/daughter, sisters, friends), Up Lit, historical fiction (preferably WWII), Southern Gothics, thrillers and Middle Grade.
Currently not seeking:
Erotic romances, stories with dystopian settings, paranormals and YA.
Current authors or clients:
My client list includes the following authors: Washington Post and USA Today bestselling author Debbie Herbert; PW bestselling author Jenna Kernan; USA Today bestselling author Tara Taylor Quinn; National bestselling author Nancy Robards Thompson; USA Today bestselling author Heather B. Moore.
I am also currently working with a number of debut authors.
Agency: Dystel, Goderich & Bourret
Title: Agent
Currently seeking:
Contemporary romance, rom coms, romances showcasing diverse voice, medical romances, women’s fiction (e.g. mother/daughter, sisters, friends), Up Lit, historical fiction (preferably WWII), Southern Gothics, thrillers and Middle Grade.
Currently not seeking:
Erotic romances, stories with dystopian settings, paranormals and YA.
Current authors or clients:
My client list includes the following authors: Washington Post and USA Today bestselling author Debbie Herbert; PW bestselling author Jenna Kernan; USA Today bestselling author Tara Taylor Quinn; National bestselling author Nancy Robards Thompson; USA Today bestselling author Heather B. Moore.
I am also currently working with a number of debut authors.
Name: Samantha Wekstein
Agency: Writers House LLC
Currently seeking:
Children’s, Middle Grade, YA, Romance, Women’s Fiction, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Historical, Humor, Pop-Culture
Currently not seeking:
Thrillers, Literary Fiction, Most Non-Fiction (excluding Humor and Pop-Culture).
Current authors or clients:
Jessie L. Star, Lani Forbes, Korrie Leer, Alison Doherty, Bree Rossi, Carolynn Staib
Agency: Writers House LLC
Currently seeking:
Children’s, Middle Grade, YA, Romance, Women’s Fiction, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Historical, Humor, Pop-Culture
Currently not seeking:
Thrillers, Literary Fiction, Most Non-Fiction (excluding Humor and Pop-Culture).
Current authors or clients:
Jessie L. Star, Lani Forbes, Korrie Leer, Alison Doherty, Bree Rossi, Carolynn Staib
Name: Leslie Zampetti
Agency: Dunham Literary, Inc.
Title: Agent
Mailing Address: 110 William Street, Suite 2202, New York, NY 10038
Email: lzampetti@dunhamlit.com
Phone: 212-929-0994
Currently seeking:
Upmarket or literary romance; YA romance; twists on Regency romance or romantic suspense; historical romance set in uncommon eras or places. Diverse characters and #ownvoices romance. I would love a contemporary Tasha Alexander or Deanna Raybourn.
Currently not seeking:
Erotica; paranormal romance; religious or spiritual romance. No WWII era historical romances. No extraordinarily violent thrillers.
Current authors or clients:
At this time, I have only children’s authors as clients, including Molly Lasco (YA). I am actively seeking to expand my list.
Other pertinent information or requests:
I prefer my humor dry, just like champagne.
Agency: Dunham Literary, Inc.
Title: Agent
Mailing Address: 110 William Street, Suite 2202, New York, NY 10038
Email: lzampetti@dunhamlit.com
Phone: 212-929-0994
Currently seeking:
Upmarket or literary romance; YA romance; twists on Regency romance or romantic suspense; historical romance set in uncommon eras or places. Diverse characters and #ownvoices romance. I would love a contemporary Tasha Alexander or Deanna Raybourn.
Currently not seeking:
Erotica; paranormal romance; religious or spiritual romance. No WWII era historical romances. No extraordinarily violent thrillers.
Current authors or clients:
At this time, I have only children’s authors as clients, including Molly Lasco (YA). I am actively seeking to expand my list.
Other pertinent information or requests:
I prefer my humor dry, just like champagne.