So, You’ve Written a Book and Now You’re Hellbent on Submitting to Agents
Good luck. Let me just be extremely honest. I found this to be a spectacular waste of time. In fact, it ate up a year and a half of my life that I cannot get back. However, if you want to do this, take a massive look at the lists I used. This is accurate as of 2018. As you probably already know, these guys go in and out of business all the time. I would recommend copying and pasting the agency names into your search engine to get the most recent website and contact information. There are also a few agent websites that I listed at the end.
A Comprehensive Literary Agencies and Agents (Single Agent Literary Agencies)
They also accept other genres other than thriller, so take a look at their websites. This is the basic list of agents (litereart agencies) that I worked through between December 2016 and March 2018. When working through this list move quickly. I know there is some debate on how fast you should move through these lists. You should not do them all in one night or one week. My advice is to divide it up over 60 or 90 days and get it done. You will be waiting anywhere from six to 12 weeks for responses and/or timeouts or longer. So, get it done and move on to your next book. You will need it completed by the time you get all your rejections back so you can start over. I worked this list three times in a year and a half. It's also important to note that while I say this is a list of thriller agents/agencies, many of these agencies accept more than thriller books and have multiple agents that specialize in a variety of categories. When I worked this list, I was specifically looking for thriller, suspense and crime agents.
- Aaron M. Priest lit agency - Thre are currently 8 agents here that cover a variety of categories.
- JLDelbourgo - There are two agents working at this agency. The owner is Joelle Delbourgo. Carrie Carter is an associate agent and probably the "gatekeeper".
- 3 Seas - There are two agents working at this agency, and they accept Romance, mystery, paranormal and fantasy, westerns, women's fiction and YA/MG. Be aware that their romance categories are highly truncated. (If I recall correctly, this agency was a lot bigger in 2017/2018)
- Aevitas - Looks like a flash-based/Wordpress website. May run slow in some browsers. They have more than 20 agents that accept a variety of genres.
- AKA Literary - New agent as of 2017/2018. Take a look at where she's placing her books because I didn't see any "agent only publishers" on her list when I last looked). There is no agent name listed on the website. However, the agent is Terrie Wolf.
- Albert T Longdon - Agent at Three Corners Literary. You'll probably come across him first on Query Tracker. He's also listed in the Publishers Marketplace. I've never been able to find a website for this guy. On my agent list, he was probably a last ditch effort to find representation because I always went after the agents with websites first.
- Annie Bomke -Single agent literary agency
- APL (pande) - These guys have a double branding. Officially it's APL literary agency, but they can also be found under Pande. Ayesha Pande owns the agency. There are 6 other agents, and they have partnered with some agents overseas.
- aponte literary
- Barbara Bova - extremely old website. This is still coded in HTML. The website lists 5 agents/employees, and their bulk email address is
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . It is a single page website with almost no information. The hyperlinks on the agent' names simply indicate additional email addresses. You may be able to find more inforamtion on Query Tracker. - Barbara Braun Associates, Inc. - Single agent agency. Accepts fiction and non-fiction.
- Barbara Casey Agency - Single Agent, accepts fiction, nonfiction and picturebooks.
- BELCASTRO AGENCY - Currently employs 4 agents. Owned by Sharon Belcastro. They only accept submissions through Query Manager. They're agents cover a multiple of children's and adult fiction genres. No erotica though.
- Bent Agency - Founded in 2009. Employs 13 agents. They accept fiction, nonfiction and memior.
- Betsy Amster Lit enterprises - pay attention to her exclusions. What she does not accept contradicts what she does accept. For example, she accepts books on social issues but not political or religious arguments. She accepts women's issues and women's fiction but not romances. She accepts history but not westerns (which could fall under historical, depending on how you wrote it.)
- BJ Robbins lit - Single agent. Owned by BJ Robbins. Represent authors in a multitude of categories, including literary and general fiction, select genre fiction (mystery, suspense/thriller, historical), sophisticated young adult fiction, and nonfiction with commercial appeal, including biography, memoir, history, health, travel, sports, African American, science, pop culture. They do not do not represent screenplays, plays, poetry, science fiction, westerns, romance, techno-thrillers, religious tracts, dating books, illustrated children's books, middle grade, or anything with the word "unicorn" in the title.
- Bond Literary Agency - Owned by Sandra Bond. Represents adult commercial and literary fiction, mystery/thriller/crime fiction, and YA fiction in all categories. She does not represent romance, adult science fiction, adult fantasy, poetry, children's picture books, or screenplays. In nonfiction, she represents narrative, science for a general audience, business and history. Keep in mind that she has language that indicates that if you are not already a "superstar", she doesn't want you.
- BookEnds - Employs 11 agents. BookEnds represents fiction and nonfiction for an adult audience. In fiction our agents specialize in romance, mystery, suspense, thrillers, science fiction and fantasy, women’s fiction, historical fiction, literary fiction and upmarket fiction. They are also seeking nonfiction in the areas of memoirs, history, food, current affairs, business and career, parenting, pop culture, and general nonfiction. BookEnds Jr, represents fiction and nonfiction for the young adult, middle grade and picture book markets. In fiction we are looking for contemporaries, romance, science fiction and fantasy, historical fiction, graphic novels, horror, thrillers, and mystery.
- Books & Such - Employs 5 agents. They are non-specific in what they accept, and it includes: Adult fiction and nonfiction, Teen and young adult fiction and nonfiction and Middle grade fiction and nonfiction.
- Bradford Literary Agency - Employs 5 agents. Accepts fiction, picture books and illistrators and non-fiction
- Brandt & Hochman - Currently employs 8 agents. Types of fiction and nonfiction are dependent on the agent. Lots of bragging going on in the agent profiles. It may impress you, but it doesn't impress me. I like down to earth and gritty, serious and determined. They list that their authors have won various awards, like the Nobel Peace Prize, Faulkner award, etc.
- Brower Lit - They offer literary representation and subrights management. There are 3 agents at this agency. They seem to specialize in YA, but they also take niches, like serial killers, psycholigical, women's fiction and historical fiction.
- Carol Man - Employs 8 agents. Genres and specialties are dependent on the agent.
- Chalberg and sussman - Employs 4 agents. Types of material are dependent on the agent.
- Chase literary - Single agent. Site is written in first person. The agent's name is not listed. You have to go to Query Tracker to find out the agent's name is Farley Chase.
- Cheney Associates, LLC - Employs 4 agents. What they accept is dependent on the agent.
- Corvisiero Literary Agency - Employs 12 agents. What they accept is dependent on the agent.
- Curtis Brown LTD - Employs 14 people. Not all of thsoe appear to be agents. What they accept is dependent on the agent.
- D4EO - Employs 8 agents. What they accept is dependent on the agent. Contains a clause that says they may have passed your work around, so you cannot submit to a second agent once time has elapsed.
- Darhansoff & Verrill - Employs 4 people. 2 appear to be agents. They are most interested in literary fiction, narrative nonfiction, memoir, sophisticated suspense, and both fiction and nonfiction for younger readers. Please note we do not represent theatrical plays or film scripts.
- David Black Agency
- DEE MURA LITERARY
- DeFoire & Company
- Don Cogdon
- Donald Maass Literary Agency
- Doug Grad Literary
- Dunow, Carlson, and Lerner
- Einstein - Iffy.... feels like a children's agent to me to spite what it says.
- emma sweeny
- Empire Lit
- Ethan Ellenberg
- Eyebait Literary Agency
- fairbank Literary
- Fletcher & Company
- Folio Lit
- Foundry
- Fox Literary
- Fraser-Bub
- Fuse Literary
- G Agency, LLC
- Gandolfo Helin & Fountain Literary Management
- Gelfman Sneider
- Glass Literary
- Greenburger
- Harvey Klinger
- Helen Heller Agency
- Hershman Rights Management
- Hill Nadell
- Holloway
- HSG
- http://www.dystel.com/
- http://www.kimberleycameron.com/
- Inklings
- Inkwell
- Innisfree Literary
- Irene Goodman
- J&S
- Jaberwocky - Mostly sci-fy, like 99% to spite what it now says.
- Jane Rotrosen Agency
- Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency
- JET Literary Associates, Inc.
- JNA
- John Hawkins
- Jud Laghi Agency
- Judith Riven
- JVNLA
- Kneerim & Williams
- Larkwords
- Launchbooks - careful, says thriller, looks like sci-fy
- Laura Langlie Agency
- LDLA
- Leshne Agency
- Liza Dawson Associates
- Liza Royce
- Loretta Barrett Books, Inc
- LPA
- Lucinda Literary
- Margaret McBride
- Maria Carvainis Agency
- Mark Falkin - ehhhhhh, read this guy's website closely.
- Marsal Lyon
- Martel Agency
- Matthew Carnicelli Lit
- McCormick Literary
- McGinniss Associates
- Meyers Literary
- MMQLIT
- Movable Type
- Nelson Agency
- New Leaf
- Paul Levine - Try him. Don't expect much. If he requests your manuscript, you will be waiting 3-4 months. Not kidding. then, he will reject it with - not for me.
- Peter Lampack Agency
- PLGB
- PLM
- Prospect Agency
- PS Literary Agency
- Red Sofa - Try them. Don't expect much. I really think these guys are primarily romance agents.
- REES LITERARY AGENCY
- Regal Hoffman (RHA)
- Richard Henshaw Group LLC
- RLR
- Root Literary
- SALKIND Greg apu
- Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency
- Serendipity
- SG Literary
- SGGLIT
- Spencer Hill
- Starlight Literary Agency
- Stonesong
- Stringer Lit Agency
- Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency, Inc.
- talbot agency
- talcott Notch
- The Angela Rinaldi Literary Agency
- the book group
- THE EVAN MARSHALL AGENCY - Research this guy before submitting. If I recall correctly, he likes to make fun of query letters on his social media.
- The Friedrich Agency
- The Gernert Company
- The Karpfinger Agency
- The Knight Agency - these guys look to be primarily romance to spite what the site says.
- The Literary Group International
- The Rights Factory
- The Rohm Agency
- the Seymor Agency
- The Unter Agency
- The Whalen Agency
- Triada
- Trident Media
- Veritas Lit agency
- Vicky Bijur
- Victoria Sanders
- Waverly Place - Read the site. Decide for yourself. I wasn't impressed.
- Waxman Leavell
- Westwood Creative Artists
- Wolfson
- Writers House
- ZSH
A Comprehensive List of Horror Agents
There are next to none of these guys and most writers can't find them. Here's the list I was able to put together after weeks of searching. This list is accurate as of March 2018.
- Aevitas
- Andy Ross Agency
- Annie Bomke
- Barone Literary Agency
- Bradford Literary Agency
- Chalberg and sussman
- Cooke Agency
- Cornerstone Literary Agency
- Corvisiero Literary Agency
- Curtis Brown LTD
- DeFoire & Company
- Don Cogdon
- Donald Maass Literary Agency
- Dystel, Goderich & Bourret LLC
- Folio Lit
- Foundry
- Fox Literary
- Friedrich Agency
- Fuse Literary
- Harvey Klinger
- ICM Partners
- Irene Goodman
- JABberwocky Literary Agency
- Janklow & Nesbit Associates
- Jill Corcoran Literary Agency
- Kimberly Cameron
- KT Public Relations & Literary Services
- Larkwords
- Launchbooks
- Levine Greenberg Rostan Literary Agency
- Literary Group International
- Liza Dawson Associates
- Loretta Barrett Books, Inc
- Lotts Agency
- L Perkins Agency (LPA)
- Lucinda Literary
- Margret McBride Literary Agency
- McGinniss Associates
- Nancy Yost Literary Agency
- New Leaf Literary & Media
- Prentis Agency
- Prospect Agency
- REES LITERARY AGENCY
- Richard Henshaw Group LLC
- Rohm Agency
- Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency
- Sanford J. Greenburger Associates
- Sarah Jane Freymann Literary Agency
- SGGLIT
- SPEILBURG LITERARY AGENCY
- Spencer Hill
- Starlight Literary Agency
- Stonesong
- Stuart Agency
- The Seymour Agency
- talbot agency
- talcott Notch
- Triada
- Trident Media
- WORD|LINK LITERARY
- Writers House
Additional Agent Lists You Can Use for Free
Query Tracker - Excellent, very up to date, better than Writer's Digest
Agent Query - Not bad, little harder to use.
Authors.com - Not as good
Manuscript Wishlist - Agent's use this. It's worth looking at when you come across an agent who has a link. However, you cannot search it with any reliability.
Agent Query - Not bad, little harder to use.
Authors.com - Not as good
Manuscript Wishlist - Agent's use this. It's worth looking at when you come across an agent who has a link. However, you cannot search it with any reliability.