April Agent News

I have some wonderful news for any writers who are querying right now: there are two new agents on the block!

Amy Boggs became an acquiring agent at Donald Maass Literary Agency last week, moving up from her roll as an agency assistant. She joined Maass Literary last year, after working at the Beth Vesel Literary Agency, and has a degree from Vassar College. According to her biography, she is actively seeking fantasy, science fiction, paranormal romance, steam-punk, Young Adult, and children's fiction. If you have an outside-of-the-box historical fiction, multi-cultural fiction, or western, she would also love to see those! For information on how to query, check out the Maass Literary site.

Today, FinePrint Literary Management also welcomed a new agent to their fold. Well-renowned editor of Young Adult fiction, Marissa Walsh, has joined their team as a newly acquiring kidlit agent. Ms. Walsh was an editor at Delacorte Press for seven years, editing such YA icons as Ned Vizzini, E. Lockhart, and Maryrose Wood. She is also the author of two books of her own, humorous memoir Girl With Glasses: My Optic History and YA novel A Field Guide to High School, as well as the co-author of the bestselling Tipsy in Madras. Ms. Walsh will be focusing on mainstream (no paranormal) picture books, middle-grade, and YA, but she is also interested in pop culture, humor, narrative non-fiction, and memoir submissions. More detailed information about what she's looking for and how to query her can be found on the FinePrint website.

In other agent news, if you've ever been interested in becoming a literary agent yourself, here's your chance! Kathleen Ortiz, of Lowenstein Associates, is taking on her first ever summer interns. So, if you're going to be hanging around New York this summer and need an internship, send in your resume! More details (along with many other publishing internship opportunities) can be found at BookJobs.