Léonicka Valcius joins Transatlantic Literary Agency, seeks commercial fiction, nonfiction, and Kid Lit, Picture Books to YA

The Henry Farm by Harriet Alida Lye,
represented by Transatlantic

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Transatlantic Agency

2 Bloor Street East

Suite 3500
Toronto, Ontario, Canada 

M4W 1A8

http://transatlanticagency.com/

Léonicka Valcius recently joined the Transatlantic Agency as assistant agent. After completing the publishing program at Centennial College, Léonicka interned at HarperCollins Canada before working at Scholastic Book Fairs Canada for nearly 4 years as a book buyer and marketer. She then joined the Online and Digital Sales team at Penguin Random House Canada where she sold ebooks and audio books. Léonicka is eager to draw from these experiences to return to her original passion: working with writers.

As the founder of #DiverseCanLit and the Chair of the Board of the Festival of Literary Diversity, serving readers and writers of colour has been the core of Léonicka’s career. She brings this same mandate to her work at Transatlantic. As an Assistant Agent, Léonicka will be working closely with Samantha Haywood, Stephanie Sinclair and Amy Tompkins with whom she will be co-agenting new clients.

Léonicka is interested in commercial fiction (especially fantasy, romance, and historical fiction), general nonfiction, and YA & children’s books.

In Adult and Young Adult fiction, Léonicka likes fun commercial fiction, romance that ranges from sweet to steamy, otherworldly fantasy, and sweeping historical fiction. She does not represent mysteries or thrillers.

In Adult non-fiction, she like narrative nonfiction that explains complex issues through the lens of a personal story. She is also seeking books that straddle the self-help/lifestyle line (#selfcare #liveyourbestlife) and the self-help/business line (#productivityhack #riseandgrind).

For Middle Grade and younger, she loves humour, adventure, and make believe. She also enjoys stories about children navigating their changing relationships with family and friends. She strongly prefers books with at least one human character.

“I am eager to work with people of color,” says Léonicka, “including (but not limited to) trans people, disabled people, religious minorities, and queer folks.

Query Léonicka at: leonicka@transatlanticagency.com

Include a synopsis and a 20-page excerpt.

If you are comfortable, please include your social and cultural identities in your bio, especially if you self-identify as a person of color and/or part of another underrepresented group. If you are submitting a nonfiction proposal, please include information about your expertise and platform, as well as a detailed table of contents.

If you are submitting a picture book, please send the complete manuscript.

See Transatlantic’s full guidelines here. Read about the other five Transatlantic agents currently seeking authors to represent here.

Paige Sisley

If you’re interested in getting published, soon or somewhere down the road, don’t miss the How to Get Published workshop with literary agent Paige Sisley, Saturday, August, 18, in Collingwood (see here). For updated listing of How to Get Published workshops, see here (and scroll down).

And if you’re interested in Writing for Children or for Young Adults, Brian Henry will lead a mini-conference with Yasemin Uçar, senior editor at Kids Can Press, children’s author Kira Vermond, and YA author Tanaz Bhathena, Saturday, Sept 22, in Oakville (see here) and also a Kid Lit workshop in Sudbury sometime in the fall (details to come).  

For updated listings of Writing for Children & for Young adult workshops and for weekly Kid lit classes, see here (and scroll down).

Children's author Kira Vermond

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Exploring Creative Writing, Wednesday, afternoons, July 4 – Aug 22, in Burlington. See here.

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See details of all three courses here.

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