I'm a literary agent, part of the team at FinePrint Literary Management, a full service literary agency based in New York City. FinePrint launched in September 2007 as the merger of the Peter Rubie Literary Agency and the Imprint Agency. We represent both fiction and nonfiction for adults and young adults. Our agency maintains active memberships with AAR, RWA, MWA, SFWA, WNBA, and SCBWI.

You can read more about us at our website, and at our Publishers Marketplace listing. Be sure to also check out the new FinePrint blog!

As of September 1st, I am temporarily closed to submissions.

WITCH EYES + sequel by Scott Tracey, forthcoming from Flux Books [YA urban fantasy]
TOTAL OBLIVION, MORE OR LESS by Alan DeNiro / forthcoming 2009, Bantam Dell [YA literary fantasy]
THE BETTER PART OF DARKNESS + sequel by Kelly Gay / forthcoming 2009, Pocket [urban fantasy]
AYN RAND'S ANTHEM: A GRAPHIC NOVEL by Marshall Holt Entertainment / forthcoming, NAL [graphic novel adaptation]

I also work with licensed brands and packaging companies to provide writers for work-for-hire projects.

I have a nearly twenty-five years combined experience in publishing and the book industry.

My first job in publishing was in Northern California as a mass merchandise sales assistant for Ballantine Books. For five years I served as Director of Publicity for Del Rey Books, a division of the Random House Publishing Group, specializing in the creative publicity and marketing of science fiction, fantasy, pop culture, YA fantasy, graphic novels, manga and third-party licensed media. I worked to build and foster relationships with our third-party licensors, coordinating marketing and media campaigns with such notable media clients as Sony Pictures, Lucasfilm LTD, Microsoft Xbox, New Line Cinema, Fox, and Turner Broadcasting. I was also instrumental in the successful launch and promotion of the Del Rey Manga program.

Additionally, I've worked as a freelance publicist, online marketer and copywriter for several major trade publishers and as a book reviewer for the San Francisco Chronicle under the inimitable Pat Holt.

My background in books goes even further back to my first job as a bookstore manager in 1984 at the now-defunct San Francisco Bay Area bookstore Central Park Books. I also worked at Printers, Inc. Books in Palo Alto and spent six years as the marketing and events manager at Stacey's Bookstore in San Francisco.

Jacqueline Murphy, Director of Subrights
Brendan Deneen, Literary Manager and Director of Dramatic Rights

Peter Rubie, CEO
Stephany Evans, President
Jacqueline Murphy, Director of Subrights
Meredith Hays, Senior Associate
Janet Reid, Senior Associate
Brendan Deneen, Literary Manager and Director of Dramatic Rights
Colleen Lindsay, Agent
Diane Freed, Agent
Ward Calhoun, Agent
Laura Wood, Agent
Suzie Townsend, Assistant Agent
Bree Stewart, Assistant

For more about the individual agents, please visit our website.

* Please note that I accept queries only via email. Thanks! *

FICTION & NARRATIVE NON-FICTION QUERIES:

+ Query letter
+ First 5-10 pages of manuscript pasted into body of email
+ Short separate synopsis, also pasted into the body of email.
+ Put the words FINEPRINT QUERY in the subject line to keep your query out of my spam filters
+ If you're querying for fiction, you must have a finished manuscript.

OTHER NON-FICTION QUERIES:

+ Query letter only. If I like your idea, I'll ask for a full non-fiction proposal and details of your platform and marketing plan

GRAPHIC NOVEL QUERIES:

+ Query letter w/ synopsis and a character sheet pasted into the body of your email.
+ Link to online portfolio with completed sample chapters OR
+ Email me a JPG or PDF of your completed sample chapter.
+ Put the word COMIX to your subject line, to keep your email out of my spam filter.

+++ Please do not send attachments without being invited to do so
+++ For a much more comprehensive list of submission guidelines, please click here.