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Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo,
represented by New Leaf Literary |
New Leaf Literary & Media, Inc.
110 West 40th Street, Suite 410
New York, NY 10018
New Leaf Literary & Media is a full service management
and representation firm. In the five years since morphing from a boutique
literary agency into a one-stop shop for writers and artists, New Leaf has had
thirty-six books hit the New York Times bestseller list and eight films produced,
including CBS Films’ sleeper hit, THE DUFF, the DIVERGENT series, and
Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize winner AMERICAN HONEY.
On the literary side, New Leaf has seven literary agents all looking for authors –
everything from picture books to YA, from crime fiction to romance to upmarket
woman’s fiction, and from lifestyle books to cookbooks.
Jordan Hamessley is the newest member of the team, and like all new
agents, she needs authors.
With nearly a decade of
experience working on the editorial side of publishing at Penguin Young Readers
(Grosset & Dunlap), Egmont USA, and Adaptive Studios, Jordan made the
switch to agenting. Jordan had the pleasure of editing many award winning and
critically acclaimed authors such as Sara Benincasa, Len Vlahos, Ilsa J. Bick,
Adam-Troy Castro, E.C. Myers, Dori Hillestad Butler, Andrew Keenan-Bolger and
Kate Wetherhead, Michelle Schusterman and more.
She earned a reputation
as an editor for being the “horror girl” and edited horror and ghost stories
for all ages from chapter books (The Haunted Library series by Dori Hillestad
Butler), middle grade (Gustav Gloom series by Adam-Troy Castro) to YA (Bleeding Earth by Kaitlin Ward.) She also has a
deep affection for contemporary middle grade with heart and humor. She is
always looking to find stories that bring the queer experience to the
children’s space across all age ranges.
She is actively building
a list of diverse children’s fiction from picture books through YA and select
adult science fiction and horror authors.
She is also looking for
quirky, nonfiction picture books with a STEM focus.
Some of her favorite
reads of the last few years include Nova Ren Suma’s The Walls Around Us, Isabel Quintero’s Gabi: A Girl in Pieces, Paul Tremblay’s A Head Full of Ghosts, Charlie Jane Anders’s All the Birds in the Sky, and Barbara Dee’s Star-Crossed.
Her top five books of
all time? A Prayer for Owen Meany by John
Irving, Contact by Carl Sagan, The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley
Jackson, The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder, and Carrie by Stephen King.
Jordan
lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family and sings show tunes and
tap dances in her spare time.
Include the word Query
in the subject line, plus the agent’s name; for example: Subject: Query, Jordan Hamessley. Please also include the category (e.g., PB, chapter book, MG, YA, adult fiction, adult nonfiction, etc.)
You may include up to 5 double-spaced sample pages within the body of
the email. No attachments.
If you’re interested in and finding an agent or publisher
(someday soon or down the road), don’t miss the How to Get Published workshops on Saturday, Feb 24, in Oakville
with literary agent Martha Webb (see here) and on Saturday,
March 3, in St. Catharines with HarperCollins
editor Michelle Meade and author Hannah Mary McKinnon (see
here).
If you’re interested in Kid Lit, be sure to register for the Writing for Children and for Young Adults
mini-conference on Saturday, April 21, in Waterloo with literary agent
Barbara Berson, Simon & Schuster editor Patricia Ocampo, and Young Adult
author Tanaz Bhathena (see here).
And don’t miss Writing Great Characters on Saturday, Jan 27, in Mississauga (see here),
Writing and Revising on Saturday, Feb 10, in Guelph (see here), How to
Write Great Dialogue, Sunday,
Feb 11, in Windsor (see here),
and How to Write a Bestseller with New York Times #1 bestselling author Kelley
Armstrong on Saturday, March 24, in Caledon at the Bolton Library (see here).
Also, starting soon, Brian is offering a full range of weekly writing
classes, from introductory to intensive:
Exploring Creative Writing, offered at two times:
Thursday
mornings, Jan 25 – March 29, in Oakville (see
here)
and
Friday afternoons, Feb 2 – March 23, in Toronto (see here).
Writing Personal Stories, Thursday
afternoons, Jan 25 – March 15 in Burlington (see here).
Intensive Creative Writing, offered at
four times/locales:
Tuesday afternoons, 12:30 – 2:45 p.m. Jan 16 – March 20, at
Appleby United Church, in Burlington (see here)
Thursday evenings, 6:45 – 9:00 p.m., Jan 18 – March 22,
at Appleby United Church in Burlington (see here)
Friday mornings, 10:15 – 12:45, Jan 19 – March 23, Glenview
Presbyterian Church in Toronto (see here)
And Wednesday afternoons, 12:30 – 12:45, Jan 31 – March 28, in
Burlington (see here)
See details of all seven
classes offered in the new year here.
Read reviews of Brian’s courses and workshops here.
See
Brian’s complete current schedule here, including writing workshops and creative writing courses in Algonquin
Park, Bolton, Barrie, Brampton, Burlington, Caledon, Georgetown, Guelph,
Hamilton, Ingersoll, Kingston, Kitchener, London, Midland, Mississauga,
Oakville, Ottawa, Peterborough, St. Catharines, Saint John, NB, Sudbury,
Thessalon, Toronto, Windsor, Woodstock, Halton, Kitchener-Waterloo, Muskoka,
Peel, Simcoe, York Region, the GTA, Ontario and beyond.
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