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The Agency

We are a full-service agency representing adult fiction, young adult fiction and nonfiction books.  The agency has sold over 850 books.  We represent many best-selling authors in a wide range of genres and subjects. Our clients live in twenty-four states and range in age from early twenties to late seventies.  Some are first-time authors and others have had more than thirty books published.  We work with co-agents in Hollywood and have subagents in all foreign markets.

The agency represents books that provide entertainment, inspiration and information as well as promoting healthy and positive individuals, organizations, and communities.  It is our purpose to provide abundance and success for writers through expertise in the publishing field derived from many years of experience.  We have a strong focus on career development. We are stewards* of ideas and stories that inspire faith, insight, action and joy. To achieve our purpose, we partner with clients, publishers, and sub-agents world-wide.

* Stewardship: The careful and responsible management of something entrusted to one's care; financial supervision and management; overseeing nourishment.

Fiction

We specialize in women's fiction: including inspirational fiction, romantic suspense, and contemporary and historical romances. We also represent multicultural fiction and young adult books.

We are currently most actively seeking to represent:
Historical novels from any country or time period; contemporary fiction including novels with romance or suspense elements; and multi-cultural fiction.  We are also seeking inspirational fiction in a broad range of genres including: suspense and mysteries, historicals, romance, and contemporary novels. We are taking on writers in other genres as well but would particularly like to expand our list in these areas.

We do not represent horror, true crime, erotica, children's books, short stories or novellas, poetry, screenplays.

Nonfiction

In nonfiction , we represent the following: narrative nonfiction; memoirs; books related to body, mind and spirit; health and medicine; inspirational and religious books; psychology, relationship and self-help; parenting; animals and nature; as well as contemporary issues and any trade nonfiction written by prominent authorities in their fields. We are most actively looking for narrative nonfiction and health books.

We do not represent: technical, photography or art/craft books, cookbooks, travel, or sports books.

Submissions

Please see the "For Writers" section for instructions on how to polish your manuscript, prepare a proposal, and send queries to the agency.

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