Before starting Literary Works, Jacqueline S. Hackett was an agent at the Watkins/Loomis Agency, and an assistant and associate agent at the Faith Childs Literary Agency. She received her publishing certificate from the Columbia University Publishing Program, her law degree from Duke University and her undergraduate degree in accounting from Georgetown University. Before becoming an agent, Jacqueline spent several years working outside of publishing, as a corporate/contracts attorney, so she brings her strong negotiation and problem solving skills she learned there plus, her financial background, and a lifetime love of reading to her work as an agent. Jacqueline is a member of the Association of Authors’ Representatives.

WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR NOW:

Commercial and Literary Non Fiction:
Investigative Journalism like Tulia: Race, Cocaine and Corruption in a Small Texas Town by Nate Smith-Blakeslee

Humor like Jen Lancaster’s memoir Bright Lights, Big Ass: A Self-Indulgent, Surly, Ex-Sorority Girl's Guide to Why it Often Sucks in the City, or Who are These Idiots and Why Do They All Live Next Door to Me?

Book length projects on the kinds of topics featured in the New York Times Science Times section like Never Shower in a Thunderstorm: Surprising Facts and Misleading Myths About Our Health and the World We Live In by Anahad O’Connor and Deborah Tannen’s You’re Wearing That?: Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation, The Female Brain by LouAnne Brizendine, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, Twinkie Deconstructed: My Journey to Discover How the Ingredients Found in Processed Foods Are Grown, Mined (Yes, Mined), and Manipulated Into What America Eats by Steve Ettlinger

Gift books like Overheard in New York by S, Morgan Friedman and Michael Malice, The Bachelor’s Cat by Lynn Hoffman, Cinescopes: What Your Favorite Movies Reveal About You, and The Cube:Keep the Secret by Anne Gottlieb and Slobodan D. Pesic

Books About Relationships like Lust in Translation:The Rules of Infidelity from Tokyo to Tennessee by Pamela Druckerman and The Secret Psychology of How We Fall in Love by Paul Dobransky and L. A. Stamford

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Written by a lawyer:I would love to find a lawyer who has written a wonderful general interest non fiction book.

Not interested in: genre fiction, true crime, thrillers, fantasy, poetry, romance, short story collections, or children's books.