Two senior literary agents at JABberwocky seek new authors – sf/fantasy, mystery/thrillers, literary fiction, adult, YA and middle grade

JABberwocky Literary Agency

49 West 45^th Street

12^th Floor North

New York, NY  10036

http://awfulagent.com/

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Joshua Bilmes is the president of JABberwocky, which he founded in 1994. He has been an agent for more than 30 years, having made his professional debut at the Scott Meredith Agency in 1986. Joshua is open to query letters.

Joshua wants to see fiction in sf/fantasy and mystery/thrillers, and will reject submissions in other categories.  He shies away from the more literary part of the sf/fantasy spectrum. If your project looks intriguing, but not in line with his personal tastes, he may share it with another agent in the office.

In nonfiction, he’s looking more broadly.

See his blog for more information.

Query Joshua at: queryjoshua@awfulagent.com

Send only a query letter; no manuscript pages until he asks, though a 1–3-page synopsis may be pasted in below the query but isn’t mandatory. No attachments.

Eddie Schneider is the Vice President of JABberwocky.

Eddie is looking for literary fiction,  particularly plot-driven fiction with a strong emotional core that goes beyond and outside middle-class concerns  endemic to literary fiction; for example A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki and Round House by Louise Erdrich.

He also wants science fiction, especially if it’s set in the near future and includes social or cultural commentary, and fantasy that’s set outside the northern European milieu in which the genre originated.

Eddie is also seeking Young Adult and Middle Grade fiction. His favourite YA novels “end to be both character- and concept-driven while embracing the intensity of emotion that characterizes the best YA fiction.” In Middle Grade, Eddie wants both contemporary realistic fiction and sci-fi and fantasy.

In nonfiction, Eddie is interested in science, history, and narrative nonfiction, particularly memoirs that take on issues that extend beyond the author’s own life, travel narratives that are socially engaged and possess an individual stamp, and in “nonfiction novels.”

Eddie is also looking for Graphic Novels and Comic. He’s only interested in author/artists or established author-artist teams. In graphic novels, he’s looking for both fiction and nonfiction, realistic or speculative and for adults, young adults or middle grade. For comics, he’s especially looking for submissions that are both humorous and incisive.

For more details of what Eddie is looking for, see here. Follow him on Twitter here.

Query Eddie at: queryeddie@awfulagent.com

Paste the first five pages of your manuscript into your email. A 1–3-page synopsis may be pasted in below this but isn’t mandatory. No attachments.

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