Here are three agents actively seeking clients. Nicole Geiger is focusing on both fiction and nonfiction in board books, picture books, young chapter books, and middle grade. Chris Rogers is seeking exclusively nonfiction, including promising, eloquent, scholarly authors with general readership cross-over potential in all fields of history. Jade Wong-Baxter wants literary/upmarket fiction, speculative fiction, and narrative nonfiction, especially in the areas of memoir, cultural criticism, history, and pop culture.
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Always check the agency website and agent bio before submitting. Agents can switch agencies or close their lists.
You can find a full list of agents actively seeking new clients here: Agents Seeking Clients
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Nicole Geiger of Full Circle Literary, LLC
Nicole Geiger has 30 years of experience in publishing and has worked in just about every capacity in the industry. For 18 years, first as VP and Publisher of Ten Speed Press/Tricycle Press then VP and Publisher of Random House/Tricycle Press, Nicole was the primary acquirer and directed the production and marketing of up to 30 children’s titles yearly.
What she is seeking: She is focusing on both fiction and nonfiction in board books, picture books, young chapter books, and middle grade: Engaging and idiosyncratic nonfiction, both prescriptive and descriptive; Books about the power and excitement of the natural world; Slices of life: Small moments, well-drawn characters, humor galore in any of my requested formats; Magic embedded in the “real” world; Graphic novels with emotion and heart; Illustrators.
How to submit: Use the online form HERE.
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Nicole Geiger has 30 years of experience in publishing and has worked in just about every capacity in the industry. For 18 years, first as VP and Publisher of Ten Speed Press/Tricycle Press then VP and Publisher of Random House/Tricycle Press, Nicole was the primary acquirer and directed the production and marketing of up to 30 children’s titles yearly.
What she is seeking: She is focusing on both fiction and nonfiction in board books, picture books, young chapter books, and middle grade: Engaging and idiosyncratic nonfiction, both prescriptive and descriptive; Books about the power and excitement of the natural world; Slices of life: Small moments, well-drawn characters, humor galore in any of my requested formats; Magic embedded in the “real” world; Graphic novels with emotion and heart; Illustrators.
How to submit: Use the online form HERE.
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Jade Wong-Baxter of Massie & McQuilkin Literary Agents
Jade got her start in publishing at Writers House, W. W. Norton, and Folio Literary Management. A graduate of Vassar College, she joined MMQ in 2017.
What she is seeking: Jade seeks literary/upmarket fiction, speculative fiction, and narrative nonfiction, especially in the areas of memoir, cultural criticism, history, and pop culture.
How to submit: Please send queries (with the first 5-10 pages) to jade@mmqlit.com. Please note that she only responds to queries in which she is interested. If you haven’t heard from her in 4-6 weeks, your project is not a good fit for her.
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Jade got her start in publishing at Writers House, W. W. Norton, and Folio Literary Management. A graduate of Vassar College, she joined MMQ in 2017.
What she is seeking: Jade seeks literary/upmarket fiction, speculative fiction, and narrative nonfiction, especially in the areas of memoir, cultural criticism, history, and pop culture.
How to submit: Please send queries (with the first 5-10 pages) to jade@mmqlit.com. Please note that she only responds to queries in which she is interested. If you haven’t heard from her in 4-6 weeks, your project is not a good fit for her.
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Chris Rogers of Dunow, Carlson & Lerner Literary Agency
Chris Rogers began his publishing life as a college sales rep in 1978 with Random House after completing his doctorate in English Literature. His editorial career started in 1984 as the college history editor at Alfred A. Knopf/Random House where he was fortunate enough to work as a rookie with history greats John Hope Franklin, R.R. Palmer, Frank Freidel, Aland Brinkley, James McPherson, James West Davidson, and many other talents. In 2016, Chris retired, after a forty year career in the editorial vineyards, from Yale University Press where he was the Editorial Director and Executive History Editor.
What he is seeking: Chris is seeking exclusively nonfiction, including promising, eloquent, scholarly authors with general readership cross-over potential in all fields of history: American, European, Indigenous, Asian, African, etc. as well as psychology, the environment, and biography.
How to submit: Query letters preferred via email (mail@dclagency.com). Below your query letter, please paste the first ten pages of your manuscript. Please do not send attachments.
Chris Rogers began his publishing life as a college sales rep in 1978 with Random House after completing his doctorate in English Literature. His editorial career started in 1984 as the college history editor at Alfred A. Knopf/Random House where he was fortunate enough to work as a rookie with history greats John Hope Franklin, R.R. Palmer, Frank Freidel, Aland Brinkley, James McPherson, James West Davidson, and many other talents. In 2016, Chris retired, after a forty year career in the editorial vineyards, from Yale University Press where he was the Editorial Director and Executive History Editor.
What he is seeking: Chris is seeking exclusively nonfiction, including promising, eloquent, scholarly authors with general readership cross-over potential in all fields of history: American, European, Indigenous, Asian, African, etc. as well as psychology, the environment, and biography.
How to submit: Query letters preferred via email (mail@dclagency.com). Below your query letter, please paste the first ten pages of your manuscript. Please do not send attachments.
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