Here are seven agents actively building their client lists. Maile Beal is seeking nonfiction and YA. Maggie Cooper is seeking historical novels, cookbooks and unclassifiable projects. Heather Carr is seeking nonfiction and literary novels. Ian Bonaparte is actively acquiring in the areas of journalistic reportage, current events, science, creative memoir, and history, and is especially interested in social justice. Abigail Frank is passionate about stories for young people, especially those that are hilarious, poetic, quietly heartbreaking, and/or swoon-worthy. She is also looking for select adult fiction and nonfiction. Melanie Figueroa is actively looking for fiction and narrative nonfiction. Chelsea Eberly represents authors of middle grade, young adult, graphic novels, and women’s fiction, as well as writer-illustrators of picture books.
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Ms. Maile Beal of Arc Literary Management
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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Maile Beal joined Arc Literary Management in 2021 after over 5 years at the Carol Mann Agency. She began her career as an intern before becoming subrights manager and assistant to Myrsini Stephanides and eventually growing her own client list. She is passionate about advocating for writers and artists so that they are empowered to create work that will have a lasting impact - books in which readers will see themselves represented, find tools for social change, learn something new, connect with a different perspective, and deepen their understanding of the world.
What she is seeking: Maile is interested in adult non-fiction as well as children’s, middle grade, and YA fiction and non-fiction. In all categories, she is looking for projects that amplify underrepresented voices and untold stories.
In adult nonfiction, Maile is interested in journalistic, investigative deep dives, narrative retellings of untold histories, business and leadership resources centering underestimated identities, lifestyle and cookbooks with a fresh, personal hook, and unexpected humor and gift books.
In children’s, Maile is seeking fiction and non-fiction in all age categories. In picture books and MG, she gravitates toward heartfelt, earnest stories that use humor and silliness to connect with readers. In YA, she’s drawn to voice driven projects focusing on community and relationships with strong, complex characters that will stick with readers beyond the last page.
How to submit: Use her Query Manager HERE.
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Maggie Cooper comes to Aevitas from the world of of small presses, academic publishing, and literary journals. A 2016 graduate of the Clarion Writers Workshop, she holds a degree in English from Yale University and earned her MFA in fiction from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she served as an editor for The Greensboro Review.
What she is seeking: Maggie is actively seeking imaginative, genre-bending literary fiction; capacious historical novels; beautifully told queer stories; and smart, feminist romance. In nonfiction, her list revolves around projects that probe our assumptions and invite readers toward nuance and care, with special attention to queer, trans, and other underrepresented experiences; narratives of culture, technology, food, and the environment; graphic memoir and journalism; and gift and illustrated books with a sense of humor or grace.
How to submit: Use her Query Manager HERE. Note: Maggie will re-open to queries at a later date.
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“After two and a half years at Trident Media Group, I joined The Friedrich Agency in March 2018 and am thrilled to be part of this small, close-knit team."
What she is seeking:I have wide-ranging tastes and seek to represent writers who are also driven by curiosity and discovery, whether through formal inventiveness in fiction, like in Kiese Laymon’s LONG DIVISION, or through rigorous investigative journalism like in Patrick Radden Keefe’s SAY NOTHING. I’m often drawn to poets who have turned their hand to prose—I’ll always be interested in a writer whose dexterity with language allows them to articulate an emotion or sensibility that I’ve not previously been able to describe. Growing up in the land of glittery freezing fog and moss-draped forests, I love a moody atmosphere and setting-as-character. I was a firm believer in magic as a child so I don’t shy away from the fantastical in literary and upmarket fiction. I particularly enjoy when genre elements are used to explore the places where language fails us.
What she is seeking:I have wide-ranging tastes and seek to represent writers who are also driven by curiosity and discovery, whether through formal inventiveness in fiction, like in Kiese Laymon’s LONG DIVISION, or through rigorous investigative journalism like in Patrick Radden Keefe’s SAY NOTHING. I’m often drawn to poets who have turned their hand to prose—I’ll always be interested in a writer whose dexterity with language allows them to articulate an emotion or sensibility that I’ve not previously been able to describe. Growing up in the land of glittery freezing fog and moss-draped forests, I love a moody atmosphere and setting-as-character. I was a firm believer in magic as a child so I don’t shy away from the fantastical in literary and upmarket fiction. I particularly enjoy when genre elements are used to explore the places where language fails us.
How to submit: Use her querymanager HERE.
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Ian Bonaparte of Janklow & Nesbit
Ian began his career in publishing at Farrar, Straus & Giroux, where he worked at the nexus of sales, publicity, and marketing. Having booked tours, pitched and edited essays from authors across Macmillan, and rescued numerous readings from disaster and near-miss, he departed for the agency world, joining Janklow & Nesbit in 2016. A graduate of the Columbia Publishing Course at the Columbia Journalism School, Ian holds a B.A. in English with a focus in Creative Writing from Vanderbilt University.
What he is seeking: Ian Bonaparte is actively acquiring in the areas of popular history and science, narrative-driven nonfiction, smart pop culture, and outward-looking memoir. He is looking for books that will shift paradigms, our understanding of the world, and/or ourselves. Within nonfiction, he is also interested in deeply reported or embedded stories, unruly obsessions, big idea, social justice, and projects that will move the Overton window of discourse. In fiction he is seeking a select list of plot-driven literary (and literary-crossover) novels, particularly elevated horror or genre-inflected narratives. He is seeking work that is bold, moving, and moves.
How to submit: For email submissions, please send your material to submissions@janklow.com. Please see the website for detailed instructions.
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Abigail Frank of Sanford J. Greenburger Associates
Abigail joined the Greenburger team in 2017 after interning at Writers House. Formerly an assistant to Brenda Bowen, she now assists Faith Hamlin with her extraordinary and eclectic list of clients. Abigail graduated with a degree in English Literature from Swarthmore College and worked in healthcare before pursuing her passion for books. Find her mostly retweeting @abigailcrfrank
What she is seeking: Abigail loves weird books that challenge people to see the world in new and expansive ways—with delight, empathy, righteous anger, curiosity, awe, humor, or all of the above. She wants to read anything that could make someone think: “I didn’t know books could do that.” She is passionate about stories for young people, especially those that are cleverly hilarious, quietly heartbreaking, and/or swoon-worthy. She gravitates towards picture books that feel entirely original, chapter books with big personalities, and novels about unforgettable teens falling in love. She cares that writing doesn’t underestimate the characters or the audience. For picture books, please note that she is especially interested in author/illustrators and, in general, prioritizes lyrical, inventive texts that are a joy to read aloud. For visual art, she is most drawn to distinct and unexpected aesthetic points of view, especially in the use of color and the expression of character emotion.
To submit your work: Query Abigail at afrank@sjga.com under the subject line “QUERY – project title.” Please include a brief bio in your cover letter and your full manuscript or proposal as an attachment. If you are a visual artist, please also include a link to your portfolio. If Abigail believes your work might be a good fit for her list, she will be in touch within 4-6 weeks. Due to the volume of queries she receives, she is unable to respond personally to each submission.
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Melanie Figeroa of Root Literary
After graduating with an MS in writing and book publishing from Portland State University, Melanie worked as an editorial project manager at Quarto and then as a freelance editor for several years before joining Root Literary in 2018. She lives in Anaheim with my husband, a local sous chef, and a pack of animals currently comprised of two cats, one dog, and a geriatric turtle.
What she is seeking: I represent general fiction, speculative fiction, horror, and mysteries & thrillers, and I love novels that balance emotional depth with narrative momentum, spanning both the commercial and literary spectrum.
How to submit: Please send a query letter and the first 20 pages of your manuscript to Melanie via her Query Manager form.
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Ms. Chelsea Eberly of Greenhouse Literary Agency
"I began my publishing career as an editor of Kindergarten and Pre-K reading textbooks at McGraw-Hill, which gave me a solid respect for everything the School/Library market does, but I always knew that children's book publishing was my true passion. After attending the Columbia Publishing Course, I joined Random House Books for Young Readers, where I rose to become a Senior Editor. I've had the pleasure of publishing multiple award-winning and New York Times bestselling books, editing authors such as Tamora Pierce, Leigh Bardugo, Marie Lu, Sarah J. Maas, Matt de la Peña, Mark Siegel, Julia Walton, and Jessica Cluess to name only a few."
What she is seeking: Graphic Novels
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Ian began his career in publishing at Farrar, Straus & Giroux, where he worked at the nexus of sales, publicity, and marketing. Having booked tours, pitched and edited essays from authors across Macmillan, and rescued numerous readings from disaster and near-miss, he departed for the agency world, joining Janklow & Nesbit in 2016. A graduate of the Columbia Publishing Course at the Columbia Journalism School, Ian holds a B.A. in English with a focus in Creative Writing from Vanderbilt University.
What he is seeking: Ian Bonaparte is actively acquiring in the areas of popular history and science, narrative-driven nonfiction, smart pop culture, and outward-looking memoir. He is looking for books that will shift paradigms, our understanding of the world, and/or ourselves. Within nonfiction, he is also interested in deeply reported or embedded stories, unruly obsessions, big idea, social justice, and projects that will move the Overton window of discourse. In fiction he is seeking a select list of plot-driven literary (and literary-crossover) novels, particularly elevated horror or genre-inflected narratives. He is seeking work that is bold, moving, and moves.
How to submit: For email submissions, please send your material to submissions@janklow.com. Please see the website for detailed instructions.
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Abigail joined the Greenburger team in 2017 after interning at Writers House. Formerly an assistant to Brenda Bowen, she now assists Faith Hamlin with her extraordinary and eclectic list of clients. Abigail graduated with a degree in English Literature from Swarthmore College and worked in healthcare before pursuing her passion for books. Find her mostly retweeting @abigailcrfrank
What she is seeking: Abigail loves weird books that challenge people to see the world in new and expansive ways—with delight, empathy, righteous anger, curiosity, awe, humor, or all of the above. She wants to read anything that could make someone think: “I didn’t know books could do that.” She is passionate about stories for young people, especially those that are cleverly hilarious, quietly heartbreaking, and/or swoon-worthy. She gravitates towards picture books that feel entirely original, chapter books with big personalities, and novels about unforgettable teens falling in love. She cares that writing doesn’t underestimate the characters or the audience. For picture books, please note that she is especially interested in author/illustrators and, in general, prioritizes lyrical, inventive texts that are a joy to read aloud. For visual art, she is most drawn to distinct and unexpected aesthetic points of view, especially in the use of color and the expression of character emotion.
To submit your work: Query Abigail at afrank@sjga.com under the subject line “QUERY – project title.” Please include a brief bio in your cover letter and your full manuscript or proposal as an attachment. If you are a visual artist, please also include a link to your portfolio. If Abigail believes your work might be a good fit for her list, she will be in touch within 4-6 weeks. Due to the volume of queries she receives, she is unable to respond personally to each submission.
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After graduating with an MS in writing and book publishing from Portland State University, Melanie worked as an editorial project manager at Quarto and then as a freelance editor for several years before joining Root Literary in 2018. She lives in Anaheim with my husband, a local sous chef, and a pack of animals currently comprised of two cats, one dog, and a geriatric turtle.
What she is seeking: I represent general fiction, speculative fiction, horror, and mysteries & thrillers, and I love novels that balance emotional depth with narrative momentum, spanning both the commercial and literary spectrum.
How to submit: Please send a query letter and the first 20 pages of your manuscript to Melanie via her Query Manager form.
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"I began my publishing career as an editor of Kindergarten and Pre-K reading textbooks at McGraw-Hill, which gave me a solid respect for everything the School/Library market does, but I always knew that children's book publishing was my true passion. After attending the Columbia Publishing Course, I joined Random House Books for Young Readers, where I rose to become a Senior Editor. I've had the pleasure of publishing multiple award-winning and New York Times bestselling books, editing authors such as Tamora Pierce, Leigh Bardugo, Marie Lu, Sarah J. Maas, Matt de la Peña, Mark Siegel, Julia Walton, and Jessica Cluess to name only a few."
What she is seeking: Graphic Novels
• Young Adult
• Crossover New Adult
• Middle Grade
• Illustrators of Picture Books
• Upmarket/Book Club Women's Fiction
How to submit: See site for submission guidelines. Note: Chelsea Eberly is closed to queries except by referral. She will reopen at a later date.
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