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| Karolina Sutton, who represents Margaret Atwood, is one of the agents at CAA who's open to new authors |
Creative Artists Agency
https://www.caa.com/entertainmenttalent/books/
Creative Artists Agency is a leading
entertainment and sports agency. that includes a full-service literary agency
with two dozen US-based agents in New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, DC,
and another five agents in the UK. More than 100 of their books appear on
the New York Times and Sunday Times bestsellers lists
every year. Their clients include myriad Nobel, Pulitzer, Booker, and Baillie
Gifford Prize, and National Book Award winners.
Most of their agents are open for submissions.
Including:
Hillary Jacobson represents a wide array of
adult and young adult fiction, as well as select nonfiction. Quick Brown Fox
readers may be familiar with her as Laurie Elizabeth Flynn’s agent.
Hillary began her career at Independent Creative
Management in 2015 and joined CAA in 2022 following the agency’s acquisition of
ICM.
A lifelong obsessive reader, she is always on the
hunt for writing that provokes a strong emotional reaction, adds an important
perspective to the cultural conversation, or challenges the reader's beliefs. She
is particularly drawn to suspense, coming-of-age narratives, sweeping family
sagas, moving love stories and rom-coms, as well as speculative fiction.
To submit your work, please send your pitch and
the first 10 pages of your manuscript in the body of an email. She responds to
every query, and her average response time is approximately one month.
Submit through Hillary’s profile page here.
Gaby Sheiner is Hilary Jacobson’s
assistant and has just begun building her own list – so she definitely needs
authors! Gaby represents both fiction and nonfiction. On the fiction side,
she’s looking for commercial and upmarket authors and is always on the lookout
for buzzy book club fiction, thrillers and suspense, romance, and family
sagas.
On the nonfiction side, she is particularly
interested in cookbooks and lifestyle, psychology, memoirs, and books by
experts with distinctive perspectives and authority in their fields.
Gabby began her career at CAA in 2023. She is from
Toronto, Ontario, and is a graduate of Tufts University.
To submit to Gaby, send a query letter and the first 10 pages of your manuscript to: gaby.sheiner@caa.com
For memoir, add a short synopsis, though note that
Gaby doesn’t accept many memoirs from queries.
Tia Ikemoto is another relative newcomer
to CAA. Based in the New York office, she represents a diverse range of
nonfiction and fiction across the commercial to literary spectrum.
She began her career at ICM Partners in 2019
assisting the co-head of the Publishing department and joined CAA in 2022
following the agency’s acquisition of ICM. She graduated from the University of
California, San Diego with a degree in Communication and a minor in Business.
She is seeking fiction and nonfiction projects
that resonate with a wide audience. She is drawn to compelling and propulsive
storytelling, emotionally resonant narratives, and high concept projects with
unique hooks or fresh perspectives.
Submit through her profile page here.
See profiles of all of CAA’s US-based
agents here.
Rachel Mann is based in CAA’s London
office. She represents a broad range of work – largely fiction, with some
non-fiction – from commercial to literary, in adult, young adult, and
middle-grade markets.
Her clients include Eliza Clark, Caleb Femi, Jade
LB and Aisling Rawle, and have won and been listed for major prizes, including
the Granta Best Young British Novelist, the Forward Prize for Poetry, the
Rathbones Folio Prize, the Jhalak Prize, the Waterstone's Children's Book
Prize, the YA Book Prize, The Bookseller Discover Prize, and the Carnegie
Medal.
She spent ten years editing and commissioning
fiction for young people at houses including Penguin Random House and Simon
& Schuster, and was global publishing director at the Roald Dahl Story
Company. She became an agent in 2018 and joined CAA in 2023.
She gravitates towards darkly comic and formally
inventive works. She seeks compelling voices, unpatronizing writing, and vivid,
complex characters. International settings and traditions and radical social
commentary will always capture her attention. To submit, please send a cover
email, one-page synopsis and the first three chapters of your work, or the
rough equivalent.
Submit through her profile page here.
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| Margaret Atwood and Karolina Sutton at the Alhambra in Granada |
Karolina Sutton (also based in the London
office) is known for launching successful debuts in literary and upmarket
commercial fiction, as well as shepherding long-term literary careers. Sutton
is always keen to hear from new voices in both fiction and non-fiction,
including traditional storytellers and writers introducing new ideas or
challenging form and convention.
Sutton does not limit her interests to specific
genres; her work spans literary fiction, crime and psychological suspense,
historical fiction, serious non-fiction, and memoir. She enjoys works that are
ambitious, innovative, intellectually curious, immersive, and psychologically
astute.
She has worked with some of the most loved and
admired novelists, journalists, academics, politicians, artists, and public
figures, including winners of the Booker Prize, the Nobel Peace Prize, the
Costa First Novel Award, and the UK's premier non-fiction awards, from the
Orwell Prize to the Baillie Gifford Prize. Sutton represents writers from
around the world. Her clients include Margaret Atwood, Oliver Bullough,
Philippa Perry, and Amia Srinivasan, among others.
In 2020, Sutton was named Agent of the Year at the
British Book Awards.
She is looking for literary and upmarket
commercial fiction, as well as narrative and ideas-based non-fiction. Please
send a query letter and the manuscript to: ukbooksubmissions@caa.com
Or submit through her profile page here.
See profiles of all of CAA’s Uk-based
agents here.
See all of Brian’s upcoming weekly writing classes, afternoon workshops, and wonderful writing retreats here.
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