Jeff Herman's Guide to Book Publishers, Editors and Literary Agents by Jeff Herman

Author:Jeff Herman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: New World Library

THE JENNIFER DECHIARA LITERARY AGENCY www.jdlit.com

31 East 32nd Street, Suite 300, New York, NY 10016, 212-481-8484 ext. 362

Agent’s name and contact info: Jennifer DeChiara, [email protected]

Describe what you like to represent and what you won’t represent. I’m passionate about representing children’s literature (picture books, middle grade, and young adult) in every genre, and I also represent illustrators, adult literary fiction (writers with something special to say and a special way of saying it), commercial fiction, mystery, thriller, horror. In nonfiction, I love to represent celebrity bios and anything and everything about Hollywood/entertainment/theater/dance/behind-the-scenes, memoir, biography, pop culture, true crime, self-help, parenting, humor. In general, I’m open to any well-written book, either fiction or nonfiction, in any genre.

I don’t represent poetry, Westerns, romance, or erotica.

What are the best ways for writers to pitch you? Email a query to me at [email protected].

When and where were you born? New York City.

Do you charge fees? No.

Describe your education and career history. Brooklyn College, New York University. Was a dancer and actress, writing consultant, freelance editor for Random House and Simon & Schuster, and literary agent for two established New York City literary agencies. Started my own literary agency in 2001.

Say something about your hobbies and personal interests. It’s a struggle for me to do any of the following because I have so little free time these days, but I’m passionate about reading (everything), writing (working on a screenplay at the moment), ballet (someday I vow to get back to it and take classes just for the fun of it), skiing (love shushing down the slopes, but equally love sipping hot cocoa by a roaring fire), travel (I’m in love with Italy and spent several months there recently), movies/theater (what I could have done with that role — oy!), piano (been taking lessons for the past 15 years and will keep at it until I croak).

Why and how did you become an agent? How I became an agent is too long a story to tell, but I started my own agency because I wanted to make a difference: I wanted to help put great books out into the world, and I wanted to help make writers’ dreams come true. It was an accidental career for me, but it’s what I believe I was put on this planet to do.

Would you do it over again, or something else? I’d do it all over again.

List some representative titles you have placed. Elf on the Shelf by Carol Aebersold and Chanda Bell; A Moose That Says Moo by Jennifer Hamburg (Scholastic); Bizz and Buzz Make Honeybuns by Dee Leone (Grosset & Dunlap); The Summer Experiment by Cathie Pelletier; Geography Club by Brent Hartinger; The One-Way Bridge by Cathie Pelletier (Sourcebooks); Omega Days by John Campbell (Berkley); The Write-Brain Workbook, 10th Anniversary Edition, by Bonnie Neubauer (F&W Media); A Memoir by Danny Aiello (Simon & Schuster); Not Young, Still Restless by Jeanne Cooper (Harper Collins); Psychic by Sylvia Browne (Harper Collins); The 30-Day Heartbreak Cure by Catherine Hickland (Simon & Schuster).

Describe yourself as a person.

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