New Literary Agent Alert: Jennifer Wills of The Seymour Agency
Literary agent alerts (like this one with Jennifer Wills of The Seymour Agency) are golden opportunities for new writers because each one is a literary agent who is likely building their client list.
About Jennifer: Jennifer has five years of experience in some of the publishing industry’s leading literary agencies. She worked with publishers around the world as an assistant in Trident Media Group’s huge foreign rights department, and with domestic publishers as an assistant at Writers House (where, incidentally, she began her career as an intern). She joined The Seymour Agency in April 2016, where she has quickly moved up the ranks to associate agent. Jennifer has always loved helping fledgling authors become New York Times bestsellers and she’s ready to be a relentless champion for her own clients’ work. You can find her on Twitter.
She is seeking: Jennifer is particularly interested in a wide range of picture books and cookbooks, with a soft spot for author/illustrators of sweet and wacky picture books, and cookbooks with mouth-watering recipes of the health conscious, budget friendly or celebrity chef variety. For fiction, she’s also interested in middle-grade and young adult with a science fiction/fantasy, horror/suspense, or contemporary bent, and upmarket women’s fiction with a sense of humor. On the nonfiction side, narrative nonfiction and memoir are also welcome. Jennifer tends to shy away from rhyming picture books, historical fiction, and high fantasy, although she’s willing to make exceptions. If your manuscript has a great hook, a distinct voice, and can make her laugh out loud or ugly cry (or, even better, both), she’d love to see it.
How to submit: Please submit your query letter, first five pages and synopsis in the body of an e-mail to jennifer@theseymouragency.com. You can find some helpful information on querying in general at www.theseymouragency.com/submissions. No snail mail, please.
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.
