The Emma Sweeney Agency is a boutique literary agency specializing in general fiction, women's fiction, historical fiction, and narrative nonfiction projects including biographies, history, business, and eastern religion. We work with co-agents in every territory, from the UK and Australia to Germany, Spain, France, Italy, eastern Europe, and Asia, and make dozens of foreign rights sales (as well as audio and first serial sales) for our clients every year. Please see our web page, www.emmasweeneyagency.com, for a complete list of our co-agents and news about upcoming books.

Emma Sweeney is a member of the Association of Authors' Representatives and the Women's Media Group, where she served as president in 2003. She graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a BA in English Literature. Emma is also a writer whose own books include TULIPA (Artisan, 2000) and AS ALWAYS, JACK (Little, Brown, 2002; Back Bay Books, 2003).

Please send query and first 10 pages (as per guidelines on web page) to queries@emmasweeneyagency.com.

Jonis Agee, Anita Amirrezvani, Heather Barbieri, Janet Burroway, Stephanie Cowell, Lynn Cullen, Elizabeth Dewberry, Wendy Doniger, David Dosa, MD MPH, Ellen Feldman, Sara Gruen, Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller, Penelope Lively, Amy MacKinnon, Maxine Paetro, Carol Prisant, Mingyur Rinpoche, Rebecca Stott, Justin Taylor, Debra Winger

Fiction
WATER FOR ELEPHANTS by Sara Gruen
THE BLOOD OF FLOWERS by Anita Amirrezani
FAMILY ALBUM by Penelope Lively
TETHERED by Amy MacKinnon
GHOSTWALK by Rebecca Stott

Nonfiction
THE JOY OF LIVING by Mingyur Rinpoche
HOUND DOG: The Leiber and Stoller Autobiography by Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller
POSEIDON'S STEED by Helen Scales
THE HINDUS: An Alternative History by Wendy Doniger

Fiction
Sara Gruen's APE HOUSE to Spiegel & Grau
Lynn Cullen's THE CREATION OF EVE to Putnam
Chaya Bhuvaneswar's JACKSON HEIGHTS to Spiegel & Grau
Stephanie Cowell's CLAUDE & CAMILLE to Crown
Carol Prisant's DOG HOUSE to Gotham Books
Justin Taylor's EVERYTHING HERE IS THE BEST THING EVER to HarperPerennial
Carol Wallace LEAVING VAN GOGH to Spiegel & Grau

Nonfiction
Dr. David Dosa's MAKING ROUNDS WITH OSCAR to Hyperion
Richard Snow's A MEASURELESS PERIL: AMERICA'S WAR IN THE ATLANTIC to Scribner

Film Options
WATER FOR ELEPHANTS by Sara Gruen (Fox 2000)
THE BLOOD OF FLOWERS by Anita Amirrezvani (Holding Pictures)
THE LIST by Tara Ison (Rosario Dawson)
MARRYING MOZART by Stephanie Cowell (Hallie Myer)

Audio
MAKING ROUNDS WITH OSCAR by David Dosa (Blackstone)

Member AAR and Women's Media Group (past president of WMG).

Co-agents in all territories (see ESA webpage for details).

ESA Rights Manager and agent: Eva Talmadge at eva@emmasweeneyagency.com
Assistant to Emma Sweeney and junior agent: Justine Wenger at justine@emmasweeneyagency.com

Email query and first ten pages of proposal or novel embedded in query to queries@emmasweeneyagency.com. We cannot open attachments unless specifically requested.

Faith Evans Literary Associates, David Higham Associates, Jenny Darling and Associates.