Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Literary Agent Jaida Temperly
Prior to joining New Leaf Literary, Jaida grew up on a Wisconsin dairy farm, studied classical ballet, and briefly attended medical school. She loves art history, traveling, logic puzzles, horticulture, and numerous other topics that come in handy for Trivia Night and crossword puzzles. For all fiction (both Adult and Children’s) she has an affinity […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Literary Agent Holly McGhee
Pippin Properties, Inc. is an agency devoted primarily to picture books, middle-grade, and young adult novels, but we also represent adult projects on occasion. They are always on the lookout for writers and illustrators who take the challenge of creating books seriously and are willing to give the publishing world nothing less than their very best. […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Literary Agent Holly Root
Holly Root began her publishing career as an editor in her hometown of Nashville, TN. Prior to joining the Waxman Literary Agency in 2007, she worked at the William Morris Agency and Trident Media Group. At Waxman Agency she has represented bestselling authors of fiction and nonfiction as well as expanding the agency’s reach into […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Literary Agent Hilary Harwell
Hilary joined the KT Literary team to support office operations and assist with queries and manuscripts, and now acts as Associate Agent with clients of her own. She graduated from the University of Colorado, Boulder, with a degree in Anthropology and went on to work in the back office of a major Swiss Investment Bank […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Literary Agent Heather Flaherty
Heather Flaherty grew up in Massachusetts, between Boston and the Cape, and started working in New York City as a playwright during college. After much country hopping and some work in editorial, Heather became a YA and Children’s Literary Scout, consulting with foreign publishers and Hollywood regarding what the next big book will be. Now […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Literary Agent Gemma Cooper
Gemma Cooper represents authors who write for children, from 5+ to young adult. Here she is in her own words: Before joining The Bent Agency, I worked as a literary agent at Bright Literary Agency, representing a wide range of authors and author/illustrators, from picture books to YA. As an agent, I get to be […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Literary Agent Erin Young
Erin Young joined DG and B in 2014 as the assistant to Michael Bourret at the West Coast office in Los Angeles. Previously, she worked as an editor at two prestigious literary magazines. Erin holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing and dabbles in writing. Her most recent work was on the libretto of the critically […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Literary Agent Eric Myers
ERIC MYERS entered the publishing industry as an author and arts journalist. His Uncle Mame: The Life of Patrick Dennis was originally published by St. Martin’s Press (2000) and is now available in paperback from Da Capo Press. He co-authored (with Howard Mandelbaum) Screen Deco: A Celebration of High Style in Hollywood (1985) and Forties […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Literary Agent Emma Finn
Here is Emma Finn’s bio from the C + W Agency website: I am actively building my list of exciting new writers of both fiction and narrative non-fiction. On the fiction side, I read widely so don’t like to be too prescriptive, but I do love novels that explore those moments that define our lives and […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Literary Agent Emily Mitchell
Emily Mitchell lives in Massachusetts because of Anastasia Krupnik: after reading the eponymous classic dozens of times as a child, she got it in her head that going to college in Massachusetts was something she should do, so she did. Emily began her career at Sheldon Fogelman Agency, handling submissions, subsidiary rights, and coffee. She […]