Agent List (#43)
Agents with inboxes open for queries & an upcoming Bookish Zoom session, July 1
Greetings fellow scribes and literary travelers,
Today’s post is June’s list of agents currently accepting queries, along with a few other items of note. A preview of May’s agent list is available here.
New novel alert: Deborah Kalb, a past Bookish interviewee, recently published a detective novel, Everything She Most Admired (Apprentice House). Deborah is a Washington, D.C.-based writer and former journalist who covered Beltway politics for years. She also curates a literary blog with a large archive of author interviews.
And Joyce Wadler, one of the writers I admire most (she’s here on Substack, and has written for the New York Times and many other publications), is celebrating the one-year anniversary of her debut novel The Satyr in Bungalow D. I spoke with Joyce about it last year for Bookish. If you haven’t read Satyr yet, I hope you’ll pick up a copy soon.
On Wednesday, July 1, 5:30 PM PT/8:30 PM ET, I’m hosting a Zoom meeting for monthly and annual subscribers. For the Zoom link, message me here or reply to the email of this post. Bring your writing- and publishing-related questions (e.g. the agent search, query letters, hybrid presses, indie v. corporate/Big Five presses, book contests, should you hire a freelance editor?, to self-publish or not to self-publish, how to start a reading series in your community, writers’ groups, etc.)
Tangentially, I teach a college course on the publishing industry, and one of the assigned texts is Dan Sinykin’s Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature. Sinykin examines and demystifies the industry’s history and current trends—it’s fascinating and well researched. (He’s here on Substack too: A Screaming Comes Across the Sky.) 📗
Summer class! Beginning Wednesday, July 15, I'm teaching a 6-week online flash fiction workshop, 6-8:30 PM PT, for Stanford Continuing Studies. More information and registration link here.
Bookish yearly subscriptions are 30% off, and through the end of June, new founding memberships include two books (your choice of one of mine, and a book by another author—specify if you’d prefer fiction, nonfiction, or poetry).
