Susan Schulman, Literary Agent
The Susan Schulman Literary Agency is an active agency specializing in several genres, including fiction and non-fiction works for and about women.
Susan Schulman is open to queries
About Susan Schulman
Susan Schulman is the founder of the Susan Schulman Literary Agency and has extensive experience as an agent, editor, publisher, and educator. Before establishing her agency, she worked in the Literary Department at International Creative Management and served as Associate Publisher of Ohio University Press, where she acquired more than 100 titles. Her agency represents fiction and nonfiction for adults and younger readers and also handles foreign, film and television, stage, audio, digital, and other subsidiary rights.
Schulman is particularly interested in books that introduce important ideas, challenge conventional thinking, or contribute to broader cultural conversations. Her interests include commercial and literary fiction, women's issues, memoir, history, science, politics, economics, psychology, health, social issues, creativity, and children's books from picture books through young adult. She is especially drawn to ambitious projects that explore significant questions about society and the human experience.
Susan Schulman Literary Agent Submission Guidelines:
Susan Schulman Literary Agency LLC specializes in representing motion picture, television and allied rights, foreign rights, live stage including commercial theater, opera and dance adaptations, new media rights including e-book and digital applications, and other subsidiary rights on behalf of North American publishers and literary agents. The agency also represents its own clients domestically and internationally in all markets. The agency has a particular interest in fiction and non-fiction books for, by and about women and women's issues and interests, as well as all levels of children’s books including picture books, middle-grade and young adult, history, science, pop culture, and memoir. Our primary interest however is in authors and their projects which explore big ideas about the world and being human.
Susan is currently looking with particular interest for projects in the vein of The War That Ended Peace by Margaret MacMillan, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain, and 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James Shapiro.
From the Susan Schulman Agency Guidelines:
Thank you for your interest in representation by The Susan Schulman Literary Agency. Please read the following before submitting your work.
Fiction: Send a description of your project, a brief synopsis, and the first ten pages pasted into the body of the email below your query.
Nonfiction: Send an informative description, a full outline of the project, and the first ten pages of the manuscript pasted into the body of the email below your query.
Picture Books: Send a description of the project, a complete outline, a picture book dummy, and at least one full-color sample. Attach the picture book dummy as a PDF and the full-color samples as JPEGs or PDFs.
Graphic Novels: Send 10 illustrated pages with text attached as a PDF, along with a synopsis pasted into the body of the email below your query.
Send your submission to the individual agent you believe is best suited to represent your work. Review each agent's profile for information about their specific interests.
The agency does not represent projects created, in whole or in part, using Artificial Intelligence.
The agency endeavors to respond to each submission but receives a high volume of queries. Writers are asked to be patient and will be contacted if the agency wishes to pursue the submission.