The Tobias Agency is looking for new authors

Dreadful by Caitlin Rozakis
represented by Tobias Agency

The Tobias Agency

276 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10001

http://www.thetobiasagency.com/

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The Tobias Agency was founded by agent Lane Heymont in 2016. It is a full-service literary agency head-quartered in New York with satellite locations in Los Angeles, Boston, and Dallas/Fort Worth. It is primarily a literary agency, but also has one agent, Eric C. Jones, who’s looking for scripts. Currently, Tobias has eight agents altogether. Here are the ones looking for manuscripts:

Jacqui Lipton joined The Tobias Agency in 2022 after helming her own literary agency, Raven Quill Literary, for a number of years previously. She holds an M.F.A. in Fiction from Vermont College of Fine Arts and regularly teaches classes on writing and on legal aspects of publishing around the country.

Jacqui represents authors of fiction and nonfiction from middle grade through to adult, as well as selected projects for younger readers (picture books, chapter books etc.)

Jacqui is currently focusing on developing her adult fiction and nonfiction lists and particularly enjoys mystery/crime, romance, how-to books, and compelling contemporary novels. She is not currently seeking high fantasy, and considers science-fiction selectively.

Jacqui will open for submissions on January 20, 2024. Submit through her Query Manager here.

Note: Jacqui will be the guest speaker for our online “How to Get Published” workshop on Sunday, Feb 25. Details here.

Natascha Morris joined The Tobias Agency in 2020 after previously working at BookEnds Literary. Natascha thinks that all books should be well written and entertaining and that all children should see themselves and their lives in books. 

Some of her books include ALA award winning Queen of Physics by Teresa Robeson, Grandpa Grumps by Katrina Moore, JLG selected We Wait for the Sun and Oona illustrated by Raissa Figueroa, and The Library of Lost Things and A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow by Laura Taylor Namey.

Natasha is primarily looking for picture books, middle grade graphic novels, and young adult novels most genres, including graphic novels. She’s also open to submissions from illustrators.

Query Natasha through her Query Manager here. 

Lane Heymont began his publishing career in 2012 at The Seymour Agency and in 2016 formed The Tobias Literary Agency. With his eclectic taste and particular passion for horror, Lane is the top literary agent in the genre.

Lane represents a broad range of commercial fiction and serious nonfiction. He is actively looking for underrepresented voice across al genres. In fiction, this includes horror and thrillers.

In nonfiction, he is interested in history, politics, current events, philosophy, investigative journalism, memoir, cultural studies, pop culture, and any of the sciences.

In your submission, you must include all trigger warnings (i.e., blood, violence, sexual content, racism, slurs, abuse, etc. Failure to do do will result in automatic rejection.

Query Lane through his Query Manager here.

Eric Jones only represents screenwriters. He’s particularly interested in science fiction, fantasy, musicals, and period pieces. However, he is open to just about anything. His main goal is to find a script that will inspire, ignite, and energize the audience.

To submit a script, see the Tobias Literary Management Submission Policy and Release Form here.

Ann Rose started her career at Prospect Agency before moving to Tobias Literary, but she’s still new to the agenting world and like all new agents, she needs authors. Ann is most interested in swoony romances, light sci-fi or fantasy (emphasis on the light side), commercial fiction, and contemporaries. 

She is currently closed to submissions but at the end of 2023 was expecting to open again “in the new year.” For an update, check out her Query Manager page here.

Torch by Lynn Miller-Lachmann
represented by Jacqui Lipton
of The Tobias Agency 

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