McIntosh & Otis, Inc.
353 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10016
Established in 1928, McIntosh
& Otis is an elder statesmen among American literary
agencies. It’s a full-service literary agency, representing a broad range of
adult and children's fiction and non-fiction.
Adam Muhlig is the latest addition to the agency. As
an agent, Adam’s current interests include music – from jazz to classical to
punk – popular culture, natural history, travel and adventure, and sports. Adam
is pursuing books that offer fresh perspective or new analysis by or about
mavericks in these fields.
Keeping with McIntosh
and Otis’ great tradition, he is seeking works that will have classic value and
long-term strength. His editorial work includes research, organization
and indexing of Karl Shapiro’s provocative essay collection Creative
Glut: Selected Essays. He also assisted Alan Tennant on his now classic, On the Wing a New York Times bestseller. As an archival appraiser, for
more than fifteen years Adam has worked on collections by many noted musicians
and entertainment industry figures, naturalists, historians, and poets and
writers including several United States Poets Laureate and Pulitzer Prize
winners.
Query Adam at: AMquery@mcintoshandotis.com
Please send a query
letter, proposal, outline, author bio, and three sample chapters (no more than
30 pages) of the manuscript.
Christa Heschke is also
a new member of the team and is actively looking for new authors. Christa
graduated from Binghamton University with a major in English and a minor in
Anthropology. She started in publishing as an intern at both Writers House and
Sterling Lord Literistic, where she fell in love with the agency side of
publishing. Christa has been at McIntosh and Otis, Inc.
in the Children’s Literature Department since 2009. Find her on Twitter:
@ChristaHeschke
Christa is seeking picture
books, middle grade, young adult and new adult projects.
She is a fan of new adult and young adult novels
with a romantic angle and strong, quirky protagonists. In young and new adult,
Christa is especially interested in contemporary fiction, horror and
thrillers/mysteries. She’d also like to see steampunk and fantasy (urban
and high), that pushes the boundaries of what’s currently on the shelves,
perhaps a new take on these genres that has yet to be seen.
As for middle grade, Christa enjoys humorous
contemporary, adventure and magical realism for boys and girls. For picture
books, she’s drawn to cute, character driven stories.
Paste a synopsis and the first three consecutive
chapters (not to exceed 25 pages) of the manuscript into the email. No
attachments. Full submission guidelines here.
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| Martha Magor Webb |
Brian
Henry will lead a “How to Get Published” workshop with guest speaker Carly Watters of P.S. Literary agency in
Georgetown on October 5 (see here). He’ll also lead “How to Get
Published with guest speaker Martha Magor Webb of Anne McDermid literary agency in Oakville on February 22 (see here).
To
register, email brianhenry@sympatico.ca
Also,
Brian will lead a “Writing
for Children & for Young Adults” workshop
in Mississauga on Sat, Oct 26 (here) and in Caledon at the Bolton
Library on January 18 (here).
And
he’ll lead “How to Make your
stories dramatic” workshops
in London on Oct 19 (see here), in
Kingston on Nov 16 (here), Orillia
on Nov 23 (here), and in
Brampton on Dec 7 (here).
But
before you submit, the best way to get your manuscript into shape is with a
weekly course. In January, Brian will lead a “Welcome to Creative Writing” on Tuesday evenings in
Burlington (see here); a “Writing your life & other true
stories” on Tuesday afternoons in Burlington (here);"Next
Step" courses on
Thursday afternoons in Mississauga (here)
and Thursday evenings in Georgetown (here);
and “Intensive” courses for more experienced writers on Wednesday afternoons in
Burlington and Wednesday evenings in Mississauga.
For
details or to register, email brianhenry@sympatico.ca
See Brian’s full schedule here, including
writing workshops and creative writing courses in Kingston, Peterborough,
Toronto, Mississauga, Brampton, Bolton, Caledon, Georgetown, Milton,
Oakville, Burlington, St. Catharines, Hamilton, Dundas, Kitchener, Guelph,
London, Woodstock, Orangeville, Newmarket, Barrie, Orillia, Sudbury,
Muskoka, Peel, Halton, the GTA, Ontario and beyond.
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