Nancy Yost is an active literary agent at the Nancy Yost Literary Agency, currently open to submissions.
About Nancy Yost
Nancy Yost is the founder of the Nancy Yost Literary Agency and represents a wide range of commercial fiction. She began her publishing career in the contracts department at Random House, later worked as an editor at Avon Books, and spent more than fifteen years as a literary agent before establishing NYLA in 2009. Her client list includes New York Times, USA Today, international bestselling, and award-winning authors.
Yost's primary focus is commercial fiction, particularly crime novels, mysteries, thrillers and suspense; historical fiction and historical suspense; women's fiction; historical romance; romantic comedy; accessible upmarket and book club fiction; urban fantasy and paranormal fiction; and science fiction and fantasy. She looks for complex, engrossing stories driven by strong characters and distinctive voices, with particular appreciation for atmosphere, intelligent writing, humor, effective world-building, Gothic fiction, and ghost stories. Her selective nonfiction interests tend toward subjects involving history, science, and the arts.
Nancy Yost Submission Guidelines
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