Creative Artists Agency (CAA) is a major global talent and entertainment agency founded in 1975. Its CAA Books division operates as a full-service literary agency representing bestselling and prize-winning authors across fiction, nonfiction, children’s literature, journalism, celebrity books, and other categories. The books division works from offices in New York, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and London, and handles not only book publishing but also translation rights, film and television adaptation rights, marketing, publicity, and touring.
CAA is open to unsolicited submissions through individual literary agents.
Creative Artists Agency (CAA) Submission Guidelines
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From the Creative Artists Agency (CAA) guidelines:
CAA accepts unsolicited submissions through individual literary agents who are currently open to queries. Writers should review the agency’s U.S. and U.K. agent profiles and submit to the agent whose interests best match their work. Open agents provide a submission link directly on their profile. CAA generally recommends querying only one agent at the agency for a particular project.
From the Guidelines
CAA agents represent a wide range of genres, including literary and commercial fiction, young adult, speculative fiction, memoir, nonfiction, and children’s literature. The agency does not represent screenplays through its literary division. Both debut and established authors are welcome to submit, including writers outside the United States.
CAA aims to respond to submissions within approximately six weeks, although response times may vary. The agency does not charge reading fees. Legitimate communications from CAA agents and employees will come only from email addresses ending in @caa.com.