Finding a Literary Agent Online

Finding out about literary agents isn’t easy!

Read these blogs and sites to learn what different agents do, what genres they cover, and the terrific suggestions they offer on writing and sending in a query letter.

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Agent in the Middle
An established N.Y. literary agent with 20 years experience shares how and why she does the things she does.
Agent Query
The Internet’s largest and most current database of literary agents.
BookEnds, LLC — A Literary Agency
BookEnds, LLC, is an innovative and energetic literary agency. We represent a diversity of authors, from spirituality, self-help and business writers to mystery, romance and literary novelists. BookEnds works with authors and publishers.
Lit Agent X
I've been an agent at Lowenstein-Yost Associates (www.lowensteinyost.com) since January 2006. Prior to this, I worked as an assistant agent with the Donald Maass Literary Agency. Before moving to NYC, I lived in Cincinnati, Ohio and worked at Writer'
Nathan Bransford
I'm a literary agent with the San Francisco office of Curtis Brown Ltd., a New York based agency that has been representing writers since 1914. I'm particularly interested in literary fiction, narrative nonfiction, history, sports, politics, current
Miss Snark
In which Miss Snark vents her wrath on the hapless world of writers and crushes them to sand beneath her T.Rexual heels of stiletto snark. NEWS! Miss Snark is retiring from blogging! (sob) The archives with her wonderful wisdom will remain.
Pub Rants
A very nice literary agent indulges in polite rants about queries, writers, and the publishing industry
Jenny Rappaport
Publishing, books, and soup. What more can you ask for? I'm Jenny Rappaport. I work as a literary agent at the L. Perkins Agency.

Books About Agents

	2010 Guide to Literary Agents Price: $18.78 List Price: $29.99
	Jeff Herman's Guide to Book Publishers, Editors, and Literary Agents 2010, 20E: Who They Are! What They Want! How to Win Them Over! (Jeff Herman's Guide ... Editors, Publishers, and Literary Agents) Price: $18.80 List Price: $29.99
	2009 Guide To Literary Agents Price: $3.07 List Price: $27.99
	How to Get a Literary Agent Price: $11.40 List Price: $17.99