New Literary Agent: Arielle Datz from Dunow, Carlson & Lerner Literary

New literary agents (with this spotlight featuring Arielle Datz from Dunow, Carlson & Lerner Literary) are golden opportunities for new writers because each one is a literary agent who is likely building his or her client list.

Reminder: New literary agents (with this spotlight featuring Arielle Datz from Dunow, Carlson & Lerner Literary) are golden opportunities for new writers because each one is a literary agent who is likely building his or her client list.

About Arielle: She started as an intern at Dunow, Carlson, & Lerner in 2011, and then worked in the foreign rights department at WME, followed by 2 years at the Elizabeth Kaplan Literary Agency. She has since returned to DCLA full-time.

Arielle is seeking: For fiction, she is looking for adult, YA, and middle grade literary and commercial. In nonfiction, she is looking for essays, unconventional memoir, pop culture, and sociology. (She is no longer seeking science fiction or fantasy.)

How to submit: Submit a query letter at mail [at] dclagency.com. Put "Query for Arielle: [title]" in the subject line. Do not include attachments. Due to volume of inquiries received, the agency is unable to respond to all emailed queries.


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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.