Jennifer Lyons, Literary Agent Jennifer Lyons Literary Agency is an active agency open to queries, with Jennifer Lyons currently closed to new submissions.
About Jennifer Lyons
Jennifer Lyons is the owner and president of the Jennifer Lyons Literary Agency. Before establishing her own firm, she spent sixteen years as a senior literary agent. She represents adult and children's authors across literary fiction, upmarket and commercial fiction, narrative nonfiction, middle grade, and young adult publishing. Her clients have received major honors including the Nobel Prize, Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, PEN awards, and Coretta Scott King Book Award.
Lyons has a particularly strong interest in literary and internationally oriented work, diverse voices, and books with both literary merit and broad readership potential. Her list includes writers, translators, art critics, children's authors, and major literary estates, and the agency also maintains an extensive network of international co-agents for foreign-rights representation. She is currently closed to unsolicited queries.
Jennifer Lyons Submission Guidelines
We ask that you only query one of our agents at a time. Please read each agent’s description carefully as each agent as a different way they prefer to receive queries.
Please send only a query letter if submitting unsolicited. If we are interested in your submission, we will request sample chapters or the full manuscript.
Do NOT send original artwork or the only copy of your manuscript, either in hard copy or by CD/DVD. Although all possible care is taken with submissions, Jennifer Lyons Literary Agency bears no responsibility for the loss or damage of materials.
Jennifer prefers email queries only at jenniferlyonsagency (at) gmail (dot) com.
Hints
Query one agent at a time; email queries only; do not send original artwork or only copies of manuscripts.