New Agent Alert: Lea Beresford of the Denise Shannon Literary Agency

Literary agent alerts (like this one with Lea Beresford of the Denise Shannon Literary Agency) are golden opportunities for new writers because each one is a literary agent who is likely building their client list.

About Lea: Lea is a new agent at the Denise Shannon Literary Agency. She has contributed many columns to the She Writes website (see a column here) and was previously an editor at Random House.

She is seeking: literary fiction, memoir, food writing, pop science (especially psychology) and pop culture.

How to contact
: E-query her at submissions[at]deniseshannonagency[dot]com with “Query” in the subject line. Full submission guidelines here.


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Chuck Sambuchino is a former editor with the Writer's Digest writing community and author of several books, including How to Survive a Garden Gnome Attack and Create Your Writer Platform.