David Gernert spent fourteen years at Doubleday, including six years as Editor-in-Chief, before founding The Gernert Company in 1996. He established the agency with the goal of applying his publishing and editorial experience to the representation and career development of authors.
About David Gernert
David Gernert is the President and Founder of The Gernert Company, a full-service literary agency with offices in New York and Los Angeles. He is active as a literary agent and currently open to submissions, primarily seeking sports, music, and personality-driven nonfiction, as well as debut and upmarket commercial novels.
Submission guidelines are available on the agency's website, with queries directed to info@thegernertco.com.
Responses typically occur within 4-6 weeks if interested; no response indicates a pass. The agency does not represent children's books, romance, or cookbooks.
The Gernert Company was founded in 1996 and represents over 500 authors.
David Gernert — Literary Agent
Submitting Your Work to David Gernert
Please send a query letter, either by mail or email, describing the work you’d like to submit, along with some information about yourself and a sample chapter if appropriate. Please do not send emails to individual agents; use info@thegernertco.com and indicate which agent you’re querying.
If sending by mail, please include a SASE for response; if you’d like all the materials returned, please include a SASE with sufficient postage for all of it. Though we promise to do our very best, we are not responsible for the loss of materials sent to us and cannot guarantee their return, even with a SASE.
Before querying David Gernert
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