Lane Heymont, Literary Agent Lane Heymont is an active literary agent (President and founder) at The Tobias Literary Agency. Lane is currently open to submissions.
Represents: Horror, Women's Fiction, Romance, Speculative Fiction, Nonfiction
About Lane Heymont
Lane Heymont’s literary-agent path began at age eight, when his grandfather paid him $5 to read and discuss the classics.
He started his publishing career at The Seymour Agency in 2012 and in 2016 founded The Tobias Literary Agency, where he serves as President.
Favorite reads he has named include Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Algernon Blackwood’s The Willows, Alma Katsu’s The Hunger, Stephen Graham Jones’s The Only Good Indians, Ally Wilkes’s All the White Spaces, Chris Bohjalian’s Skeletons at the Feast, James Lowder’s Knight of the Black Rose, the Dragonlance Chronicles by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, and Paige Williams’s The Dinosaur Artist.
He represents a broad range of commercial fiction and serious nonfiction, with special interest in projects broadly defined as horror (including select young adult horror), and he actively seeks underrepresented voices in fiction and nonfiction. In nonfiction he focuses on the sciences, cultural studies, history, pop culture, and celebrity projects.
His clients and projects include Hailey Piper, Cynthia Pelayo, Johnny Compton, and Linda D. Addison.
Submission Guidelines for Lane Heymont
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From the Lane Heymont Submission Guidelines:
Queries are accepted only through Query Manager. Do not send cold email queries.
- Fiction requires a completed manuscript; nonfiction requires a full-length proposal
- Include all applicable trigger warnings; missing trigger warnings result in automatic rejection
- Disclose any AI use in the book or query package, and whether the book is or has been previously published
- Paste the first five pages for fiction, or the full proposal for nonfiction
- Horror, mystery, and thriller submissions must be at least 50,000 words (no listed maximum)
The Tobias Literary Agency Submission Guidelines
- Agents only accept submissions through Query Manager
- Fiction: completed manuscript required
- Nonfiction: full-length proposal required
- Query only one Tobias agent at a time; if one agent passes, you may then submit to another agent at the agency
Lane Heymont's Current Wishlist:
Horror in a broad sense — gothic, cosmic, survival/isolation, upmarket and culturally rooted horror; select YA horror; strong interest in underrepresented voices. Also open to thrillers and mystery; speculative fiction and contemporary fantasy; romance, women’s fiction, category romance, and horror romance. Prefers contemporary settings. Nonfiction: expert-driven work in the sciences, cultural studies, history, politics/current events, pop culture, celebrity, journalism, memoir, true crime, nature and ecology, and related narrative nonfiction.
Query and Submission Hints
Uses he/him pronouns. LGBTQ-friendly. Prefers contemporary settings in fiction. Credentials and platform matter especially for science and reported nonfiction.