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May Agent Wishlist: Sandy Lu and Natanya Wheeler

Congratulations to Rebecca Enzor, Linda McLaren, and Sarah Raplee!
Stay tuned for June’s Agent Wishlist Contest.

 

 

Let the scramble for May’s Agent Wishlist begin! This is your chance to get a query and five pages read and critiqued by Super Intern Jess Silva, Super Author Luvina Jean-Charles, and one of two crazy awesome agents, Sandy Lu and Natanya Wheeler.

This contest will be open until June 6th at 11:59 AM Eastern Time or when all the spots are filled. Whichever comes first.

  1. Read the wishes to see if your (completed!) MS is a match!
  2. Claim your spot by commenting on this blog post. Please include the agent’s name and wish number in the comment. For example, comment: “Sandy Lu #2, please!”
  3. Hold tight until Jess replies if you’ve got the spot.
  4. Only once your spot is confirmed, go to http://mycharitywater.org/critsforwater2012and make one of the following donations:
    ——-$1 for a read only by either Luvina or Jess.
    ——-$5 for a critique by either Luvina or Jess.
    ——-$10 for a critique by BOTH Luvina and Jess.
  5. REGARDLESS of which donation you choose, if your pages are passed onto the agent, that agent will also critique your submission.
  6. Wait until you get an email about how to proceed.
  7. Jess/Luvina will read your submission. The ones they feel best match the agent’s wishes will be forwarded to the agent for another critique.

If you’re confused, feel free to ask questions in the comments. Both Jess and I will be monitoring the Wishlist to keep tabs across all timezones :)

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So, without further ado, the Wishes!!

Introducing Sandy Lu of L Perkins Agency!

Sandy holds BAs in psychology and sociology from Queens College, with minors in music, business, and Japanese. Prior to becoming an agent, she attended the Ph.D. Program in Social and Personality Psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center and worked as a business/operations manager in the theater industry. She is fluent in spoken and written Mandarin Chinese. Sandy is seeking submissions that draw her in with a unique voice and a good yarn that will make her miss her subway stop and keep her up at night.

Sandy’s Wishes (adult and YA):

  1. Espionage fiction set in China between the two World Wars (Spots left: 10)
  2. An historical thriller set in 19th century London or New York (Spots left: 10)
  3. Contemporary psychological suspense in the vein of Tana French and Gillian Flynn (Spots left: 7)

 

And Natanya Wheeler of Nancy Yost Literary!

Natanya Wheeler is an agent with the Nancy Yost Literary Agency, where she also handles digital rights. She represents both literary and commercial fiction, and always has an eye open for exciting nonfiction. Natanya is looking for submissions with unique voices, tight plots and strong characterization. She has an incurably weak spot for antiheroes. Natanya lives in San Francisco.

Natanya’s Wishes (adult only):

  1. A book about sisters (Spots left: 7)
  2. A well-researched literary thriller in the vein of Tom Rob Smith (Spots left: 10)
  3. A funny essay collection – on whatever subject! (Spots left: 9)

That’s all, guys. Aaaand GO!

Posted on May 30, 2012 in 2012 Crits, Finished · Comments { 28 }

CLOSED: Critique of 2500 words by Agent Josh Getzler

Big thanks to everyone who donated!

Been awhile since we’ve had an agent raffle, so here’s your chance to get your opening pages read by Super Agent Josh Getzler of Hannigan, Salky, and Getzler Agency and save lives at the same time! This can be for an adult or YA/MG (especially crime/mystery/thrillers). For more information, see his Publisher’s Marketplace page. And no worries, if you don’t win the raffle, you’ll still get a critique by yours truly (Ms Kat Brauer). So enter and lets give folks clean water!

This raffle is open for entries until 11:59pm, Eastern Daylight Time, May 11th, 2012.

  1. Go to http://mycharitywater.org/critsforwater2012
  2. Click on the “Donate” button and donate $10.
  3. Then in the comments section, please write in a way to contact you. You can use your email, twitter, or website. Anything’s cool, as long as you check it often :D For example:
  4. When you donate, mycharitywater will ask you to become a member (if you’re not already). That does NOT mean the donation didn’t go through! If in doubt, check your email/bank account before re-donating.
  5. I will use random.org to pick the raffle winners on May 12th
  6. Anyone who does not win the raffle will receive a consolation Kat-Crit.

This is a little complicated, so please, if you have any questions, use the comment section below! And thank you so much!

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About Josh:

Josh left Harcourt in 1993 to get an MBA from Columbia Business School. After Business School, Josh spent 11 years owning and operating a minor league baseball team (the Staten Island Yankees). He left baseball in late 2006 and rejoined the book world on the agent side. Josh worked at Writers House until November 2009, building a list of novelists, YA and children’s book authors, and the occasional nonfiction writer; then joined Russell and Volkening. In his time there, he brought in adult authors such as Nancy Bilyeau (THE CROWN—Touchstone, 2012) and Geoff Rodkey (THE CHRONICLES OF EGG— Putnam Books for Young Readers, beginning in 2012). He represents more than 30 authors, including Joshua Gaylord/Alden Bell (THE REAPERS ARE THE ANGELS), Cali Yost (Work+Life Fit and TWEAK— forthcoming from Center Street), and Gerald Elias (DEVIL’S TRILL and DANSE MACABRE—Minotaur Books).

Josh represents fiction and nonfiction (mostly fiction, much of which is crime-related (mystery, thriller, creepy…)), adult and YA/middle-grade books (though not picture books). And please don’t send religious fiction. He is particularly into foreign and historical thrillers and mysteries, so send your ruthless doges and impious cardinals…and your farmhouse cozies! Give him atmosphere, let him learn something about another time or another place (or both), and kill off nasty Uncle Mortimer in the process—Josh will be yours!

Posted on May 8, 2012 in 2012 Crits, Finished · Comments { 10 }

CLOSED: Critique of 20 pages by agent Lucienne Diver

Freaky monsters, Apollo, and guns. What's not to love?

Super Agent at the Knight Agency and author of YA like Fangtastic and urban fantasy like the upcoming Bad Blood, Lucienne Diver, is offering a critique of up to 20 pages (which may include a synopsis, if you wish). It can be from the first pages of a fantasy, romance, science fiction, suspense, or erotica manuscript. This is a unique opportunity to get a perspective from both an author and an agent, so go and bid, minions!

Check Mary Kaley’s critiquerly interview of Ms. Diver over at Not an Editor for an idea of her editing process!

This auction is open for bidding until 11:59pm, Eastern Daylight Time, April 12th, 2012.

  1. Comment on THIS BLOG POST with your bid. Bidding starts at US$1.
  2. You may, of course, bid more than once.
  3. The last comment at 11:59pm, Eastern Daylight Time, April 12th, 2012, will win.
  4. Once the auction closes, if you are the highest bidder, I will contact you with further instructions.
  5. Please DO NOT donate, send the file, etc., unless I email you! SERIOUSLY.
  6. And…go!

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Ms. Diver

About Lucienne:

Lucienne Diver joined The Knight Agency in 2008, after spending fifteen years at New York City’s prestigious Spectrum Literary Agency. With her sharp eye and gift for spotting original new voices, Lucienne is one of the most well-respected agents in the industry. A lifelong book addict, she graduated summa cum laude from the State University of New York at Potsdam with dual majors in English/writing and anthropology. She thus came well-equipped for her work as an agent. She is also the author of the popular Vamped series of young adult novels (think Clueless meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and Bad Blood, the first novel in her Latter-Day Olympians series of contemporary fantasy, set in LA and featuring a heroine who can, quite literally, stop men in their tracks.

Over the course of her dynamic career she has sold over seven hundred titles to every major publisher, and has built a client list of more than forty authors spanning the commercial fiction genres, primarily in the areas of fantasy, science fiction, romance, mystery, suspense and erotica. Her authors have been honored with the RITA, National Readers’ Choice Award, the Golden Heart, and the Romantic Times Reader’s Choice, and have appeared on the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists. A publishing veteran, Lucienne has superb industry knowledge, numerous editor relationships, and a keen understanding of the foreign rights market. She is a member of the Association of Authors Representatives, RWA, MWA and SFWA.

Posted on April 11, 2012 in 2012 Crits, Finished · Comments { 15 }