Literary agents Laura Zats seek new authors, YA, middle grade, new adult, sci-fi, romance, erotica, and more

Red Sofa Literary

2163 Grand Avenue

#2; St. Paul, MN 55105

http://redsofaliterary.com/

Laura Zats graduated from Grinnell College with degrees in English and anthropology. She’s been working as an editor since 2011 and has held positions at companies in both the US and the UK. In 2013, Laura joined Team Red Sofa as an intern but quickly became more of an apprentice and is now an Associate Agent. Like all new agents, Laura needs authors.

Laura is interested in Young Adult and Middle Grade fiction, especially contemporary, and in romance, and Sci-fi/Fantasy, Erotica, and New Adult fiction.

Query Laura at: laura@redsofaliterary.com

No attachments. No chapters until requested.

Jennie Goloboy is a relatively new agent. She joined Red Sofa Literary as an Associate Agent in the fall of 2011 and has just been promoted to full agent. Jennie Goloboy has a PhD in the History of American Civilization from Harvard. 

She is also a published author of both history and fiction, and a member of various large writers’ groups (SFWA, RWA, SHEAR, OAH, the AHA, and Codex). Her funny, speculative fiction short stories appear under her pen name, Nora Fleischer.

Jennie is looking for:

Genre Fiction – Science Fiction/Fantasy or Paranormal, especially with a literary flair.
Young Adult and Middle Grade – Fiction, especially Science Fiction/Fantasy

History – must have a commercial (non-academic) focus. Early American history is preferred, but will consider all projects.
Biography – Absolutely no personal memoirs!

Query Jennie at jennie@redsofaliterary.com

No attachments. No chapters until requested.

Full submission guidelines here.

Karen Le Billon, author of
French Kids Eat Everything, is
represented by Martha Magor Webb
of the McDermid Agency.

Brian Henry will lead a “How to Get Published" workshop with guest speaker Martha Magor Webb of the Anne McDermid literary agency in Oakville on Feb 22 (see here). He’ll also lead “How to Get Published" workshops in Thessalon in Algoma on March 23 (see here) and in London on April 19 (for details, email brianhenry@sympatico.ca).

Also, Brian will lead a “Writing for Children & for Young Adults” workshop in Caledon at the Bolton Library on Jan 18 (see here).

Brian also has a number of weekly courses coming up in January. You can scroll through the details for all of them here. 

He'll lead a “Writing your life & other true stories” on Tuesday afternoons in Burlington (see here) and a “Welcome to Creative Writing” course on Tuesday evenings in Burlington (here).

Brian will lead “Next Step” courses on Tuesday mornings in Burlington (see here), Thursday afternoons in Mississauga (here) and Thursday evenings in Georgetown (here); and he'll lead “Intensive” courses for more experienced writers on Wednesday afternoons in Burlington (here) and Wednesday evenings in Mississauga (see here).

To register or for more details of any course or workshop, email brianhenry@sympatico.ca

See Brian’s full schedule here, including writing workshops and creative writing courses in Barrie, Brampton, Bolton, Burlington, Caledon, Cambridge, Georgetown, Guelph, Hamilton, Kingston, London, Midland, Mississauga, Newmarket, Orillia, Oakville, Ottawa, Peterborough, St. Catharines, Stouffville, Sudbury, Thessalon, Toronto, Algoma, Halton, Kitchener-Waterloo, Muskoka, Peel, the GTA, Ontario and beyond.