East/West Literary Agency, LLC represents a wide range of New York Times bestselling, award-winning Newbery and Caldecott medalists…as well as a diverse list of adult non-fiction authors.

East/West Literary Agency (E/W) is, purposely, a boutique agency, to facilitate hands-on, personalized service and attention to our authors and their books. E/W provides career management for established and first-time authors and our breadth of experience in many genres enables us to meet the demands of a diverse clientele.

As to the agency’s children’s list, our specialty: we’re proud to have found homes for our talented authors, illustrators, and author/illustrators in houses ranging from A—Z: in part, Atheneum, Barefoot Books, Beach Lane Books/S & S, Bloomsbury, Blue Apple Books, Blue Sky Press/Scholastic, Candlewick, Charlesbridge, Chronicle, Eerdmans, Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan, Front Street, Grosset & Dunlap, Harper Collins, Holiday House, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Kane-Miller, Key Porter Books, Lerner Books, Little Brown/Hachette, Marshall Cavendish, Philomel, Piggy Toes Press, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, Random House, Roaring Book Press, Running Press Kids/Perseus, Scholastic, Shadow Mountain, Simon & Schuster, Sourcebooks, Viking, Walker Books and ZonderKidz.

We have a particular strength in the picture book category; specifically, for finding the "write" homes for our picture book author/illustrators ranging from Jeff Mack and Jesse Joshua Watson to Gianna Marino and Andy Myer. Furthermore, work from our illustrators (both debut and recognized talent) has been matched with Newbery award-winning Linda Sue Park (Jim Averbeck) and best-selling author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (Susy Pilgrim-Waters via Lilla Rogers Studio) to award-winning author Eileen Spinelli (Nora Hilb) and celebrity author Fran Drescher (Amy Blay via Lilla Rogers Studio).

And we're particularly invested in finding and nurturing new talent. As an example, we're thrilled to have launched (among others) the careers of debut authors Jim Averbeck, Zolotow award-winner for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's In a Blue Room; Scott Bly, of Blue Sky Press/Scholastic's upcoming YA techno-thriller Smasher; and Evan Sagerman, picture book author of Giraffe Rescue Service, forthcoming from Beach Lane Books/S & S.

More about the agency - In 2000, E/W Agency launched by helping to grow NBC Entertainment’s licensed line of books: in part, the cookbook based on The Today Show, Today's Kitchen Cookbook (Meredith Publishing); the companion volume to Will & Grace (Time Inc. Home Entertainment); and two multimedia packages published by Andrews McMeel, This is Today (with a foreword by Katie Couric and Matt Lauer), and Operation Iraqi Freedom (with a foreword written, and DVD narrated, by Tom Brokaw).

We've continued this focus on the genre of illustrated non-fiction by representing home-style guru Jonathan Fong (Parties That Wow, Flowers That Wow, Walls That Wow) and other DIY crafting talent like Domestic Diva Sonya Nimri (Beadalicious: 25 Fresh, Unforgettable Jewelry Projects for Beads Old and New; Just for the Frill of It: 25 Flirty, Fabulous Styles to Make with Clothes You Already Own), and Anita Crane (Crafting the Perfect Wedding). In addition, we have expanded our list to include other n/f in the categories of pop-culture (Just Can't Get Enough: Toys, Games and Other Stuff from the '80s that Rocked), graphic memoir (Forget Sorrow: A China Elegy), spiritual memoir (The Pilgrimage of Love), fashion/design (Adrian: From Silver Screen to Custom Label), self-help (How to Play the Harmonica: And Other Life Lessons), publishing reference (Write That Book Already: The Tough Love You Need to Get Published NOW), business reference (BizzWords: From Ad Creep to Zero Drag, a Guide to Today's Emerging Vocabulary) and humor (the four-book bestselling series launched by WTF? How to Survive 101 of Life's Worst F*#!!-ing Situations).

We’re honored to represent NYT best-selling, award-winning, crossover and celebrity talent including: Anna Dewdney, author/illustrator of Viking's nine-book Llama Llama picture book series (Llama Llama Holiday Drama released this past holiday season in the #1 position on the NYT bestseller list); David Diaz, Caldecott award-winning illustrator of Chronicle's Mother Earth, a collaboration with Newbery award-winning Patricia MacLachlan; Belle Yang, award-winning author/illustrator of picture as well as board books targeted to children for Candlewick and targeted to adults, in graphic format, for W.W. Norton; and LaChanze, the Tony award-winning actress for “The Color Purple” and debut picture book author of Feiwel & Friends' Little Diva, illustrated by Brian Pinkney.

Anna Dewdney's LLAMA LLAMA picture book series with Viking -- now slated as a series of 9 -- and soon to come, in board and novelty book formats.

As of recent note, we've negotiated deals for writers and illustrators of children's fiction and non-fiction (debut, award-winning, established, and bilingual) in categories ranging from first serial electronic and digital to individual titles and series targeting the following markets: Board (including a 3-book Random House series), Novelty (including a 5-book Grosset & Dunlap series), Concept (a pre-empted 2-book S & S series), Bilingual Early Reader (a 2-book Candlewick series), Bilingual Chapter, Picture book, Picture book Illustration, Authors who illustrate their own work (including a 3-book Viking series) Middle Grade (including a 2-book fantasy series), Tween (a 4-book Zondervan series) and Young Adult (including Fantasy).

In care of the Lilla Rogers Studio, illustrator Jon Cannell's THE ELEPHANT FROM BAGHDAD, written by Mary Travener Holmes and John Harris, the second in a series launched by A GIRAFFE GOES TO PARIS, to Margery Cuyler at Marshall Cavendish, by Deborah Warren of East/West Literary Agency, LLC (World). dwarren@eastwestliteraryagency.com

NYT bestselling author-illustrator Anna Dewdney's LLAMA LLAMA picture book series, extending the brand to books 7, 8 and 9, in a 3-book major deal, to Tracy Gates at Viking Children's, for publication starting in 2013, by Deborah Warren of East-West Literary Agency (World) dwarren@eastwestliteraryagency.com

NYT bestselling author-illustrator Anna Dewdney's LLAMA LLAMA board book series, to Tracy Gates of Viking Children's, in a 4-book very nice deal, by Deborah Warren of East/West Literary Agency, LLC (World). dwarren@eastwestliteraryagency.com

NYT bestselling author/illustrator Anna Dewdney's novelty book series, to Francesco Sedita of Grosset & Dunlap, in a 5-book deal, by Deborah Warren of East/West Literary Agency, LLC (World). dwarren@eastwestliteraryagency.com

In care of the Lilla Rogers Studio, illustrator Mike Lowery's MOO HOO, written by Candace Ryan, the second in a series launched by RIBBIT RABBIT, to Stacy Cantor Abrams, at Walker Books, for publication in Winter 2012, by Deborah Warren of East/West Literary Agency, LLC (World). dwarren@eastwestliteraryagency.com

Author/illustrator Jeff Mack's FROG AND FLY, a picture book of slurpy
stories, to Michael Green at Philomel/Penguin Young Readers Group, for
publication in spring 2012, by Rubin Pfeffer of East/West Literary Agency, LLC. (World) rpfeffer@eastwestliteraryagency.com

In care of the Lilla Rogers Studio, illustrator Susy Pilgrim Waters
retelling of the traditional Bengali folk tale written by bestselling Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, GRANDMA AND THE GIANT GOURD, to Neal Porter at Roaring Brook Press/Macmillan, by Rubin Pfeffer of East/West Literary Agency, LLC (World). rprfeffer@eastwestliteraryagency.com

Award-winning illustrator Nora Hilb's NORA'S ARK, written by Eileen
Spinelli, to Cindy Davis, at Zonderkidz, for publication in fall 2012, by Deborah Warren of East/West Literary Agency, LLC (World).
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Caldecott Medalist David Diaz and Newbery award-winning Patricia
MacLachlan's picture book collaboration, MOTHER EARTH WATCHES, to Victoria Rock at Chronicle, for publication in spring 2012, by Rubin Pfeffer of East/West Literary Agency, LLC (World). rpfeffer@eastwestliteraryagency.com

Author/Illustrator Tim Bowers DREAM BIG, LITTLE PIG, written by Kristi Yamaguchi, to Rebecca Frazer, for publication in spring 2011, by Rubin Pfeffer of East/West Literary Agency, LLC. rpfeffer@eastwestliteraryagency.com.

Deborah Warren, a highly accomplished sales and marketing executive, with nearly 30 years' of publishing experience, is the founder of East West Literary Agency, LLC.

Santa Monica-based Deborah Warren launched East/West Literary Agency with a bi-coastal vision; accordingly, she states: "Rubin Pfeffer, with his keen editorial acumen, business sense and digital savvy, is the ideal ‘east’ to complement our ‘west’ and ‘south’ (by way of Mary Grey James in Nashville, TN).”

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Rubin Pfeffer, a former executive and veteran trade publisher—most recently with Simon & Schuster as Senior Vice President of Children’s Publishing—heads up the East Coast branch of the agency as a partner and content agent, a new position focused on developing and creating content for the 21st-century incarnations of publishing, both electronic and traditional print. Mr. Pfeffer also serves as the agency’s digital media strategist. “The value that I hope to offer E/W and the clients that I represent is being nimble and opportunistic about how their intellectual property can be leveraged effectively in this dawn of electronic publishing," states Boston-based Pfeffer.

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Pfeffer published and edited a distinguished list of critically acclaimed and best-selling authors for children and adults while he headed Harcourt Brace Jovanovich’s trade division, where he, Deborah, and Mary Grey James first worked together in the 1990s.

"Rubin's background and interests have always been in storytelling and visual content—for children and for adults,” Warren states. "He's already building upon the agency’s list to find, nurture and develop diverse talent for readers of all ages and interests.”

Pfeffer’s client list at EWA includes renowned talent such as Marion Dane Bauer, Tim Bowers, Robert Burleigh, David Diaz, Patricia MacLachlan, Richard Jesse Watson, Michael J. Rosen, along with newcomers like Brendan Murphy and Tyler Whitesides.

Mary Grey James, with over thirty years' of experience in publishing and sales—most recently as a Head Book Buyer for Ingram Book Company, where she managed the laydown, sell-in and sell-through of children's and adult titles—heads up the Southeast branch of the agency as partner and literary agent. “Joining East/West Literary Agency is a culmination of my years in the publishing world, bringing together my love of books, my desire to see talented authors and illustrators succeed, and my pleasure in working with gifted people devoted to books,” she says. At E/W, Nashville-based Ms. James will represent a broad range of literature for adults and children; in particular, her special interest is with Southern writers and their stories. She will also represent writers of literary fiction.

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“Throughout her storied career, Mary Grey James has been an author advocate. With this transition, Mary Grey will take her love and expertise for guiding, inspiring, and developing talent to another level. She already has an established reputation for finding, selling, and positioning quality books in many different markets and through various channels of distribution. Now, at East/West Literary Agency, we are thrilled that Mary Grey will continue her passion of bringing high quality books to the attention of another group in the industry: our editor colleagues,” says agency founder and former Harcourt VP/Director of Sales Deborah Warren.