Submissions
How Can I Be Represented by BookEnds?
So often we hear about authors caught in the middle of publishers who don't want to see their work if they are unagented and agents who don't want to see their work if they haven't been published. What's a writer to do? Luckily you've found BookEnds, a literary agency accepting queries from both published and unpublished authors.
As you might imagine, there are a lot of benefits to hiring an agent. An agent has contacts in publishing and knows exactly who might be interested in your particular book. An agent also understands the publishing contract and will make sure that you get the best deal possible. And most important, an agent can help you achieve your career goals and help you plan for what's ahead. BookEnds agents provide the added bonus of years of editorial experience in major publishing houses and can assist you in making your book the best it can be before it goes to the publisher.
As a member of the AAR (Association of Authors' Representatives), BookEnds does not charge reading or evaluation fees.
BookEnds is no longer accepting unsolicited proposal packages or snail mail queries.
To query BookEnds, please send the query in the body of the e-mail to only one agent at:
- Jessica Faust (Jessica is accepting queries via referral only.)
- Kim Lionetti (Kim is only currently considering romance, women's fiction, and young adult queries. If your book is in any of these three categories, please be sure to specify "Romance," "Women's Fiction," or "Young Adult" in your e-mail subject line. Any queries that do not follow these guidelines will not be considered.)
- Jessica Alvarez (Jessica is only considering romance, women's fiction, erotica, and romantic suspense queries at this time. Please specify which of these categories your project falls under in your email subject line.)
- Lauren Ruth
BookEnds accepts queries from published and unpublished writers in the areas of romance (and all its sub-genres), young adult, steampunk, urban fantasy, mystery, and women's fiction. In nonfiction we are looking for current affairs, reference, business, health, women's issues, pop science, psychology, sex, parenting, pop culture, true crime, and general nonfiction.
Please refer to the About Us page or the BookEnds blog for specific agent interests.
For more information on how to successfully put together a query or proposal package (requested material only), please see the FAQs page.
BookEnds agents do reply to all submissions and e-queries and hope to do so in a timely manner. Our response time goals are 4 weeks for queries and 12 weeks on requested partials and fulls. Unfortunately, at times circumstances mean we fall behind in our responses. We do try to post status updates through Twitter, Facebook, and occasionally on the blog. However, if you wish to check in on a requested partial or full after the time period listed above, please don't hesitate to send an e-mail to the agent you sent your material to, requesting a status update. The e-mail should include the title of the work, the date the submission was sent, the name of the author, and any other information you have that might help us remember your book.
If you haven't received a response to a query after 8 weeks, we ask that you simply resend the query. It's possible that it was eaten by a spam filter either on our end or yours.
We understand that waiting can certainly be the hardest part, and thank you for not only giving us the chance to review your work but for your patience.
*****Please Note:
- BookEnds does not represent children's books, science fiction, short fiction, poetry, screenplays, techno-thrillers, or military fiction.