Lyons Literary LLC is a full service literary agency in New York dedicated to providing detailed and substantive guidance to its clients throughout the publication process. The agency provides comprehensive assistance to an exclusive client list in all areas related to their intellectual property, including editorial guidance, submission and sale of works in the domestic market to both large and small publishers, contract negotiations, foreign language sales, film and television licenses, marketing and publicity strategies, and career planning.

Jonathan Lyons is a graduate of Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (JD) and Washington University in St. Louis (BA). After working briefly in a litigation law firm, Jonathan joined Curtis Brown, Ltd., one of the oldest literary agencies in the United States. Four years later Jonathan joined McIntosh & Otis, Inc., where he served as agent and subsidiary rights manager for the agency, before founding Lyons Literary LLC in January 2007.

With Jonathan's legal expertise and his experience selling domestic and foreign language book rights, paperback reprint rights, audio rights, film/TV rights, and permissions, he is able to provide substantive and personal guidance to his clients in all areas relating to their projects. In addition, with the advent of new publishing technology, Lyons Literary LLC is situated to address the changing nature of the industry while concurrently handling authors' more traditional needs.

Lyons Literary LLC represents a select list of writers of narrative non-fiction, history, food writing, biographies, women's issues, pop culture, sports, international themes, true crime, mysteries, thrillers, and literary fiction.

Agency clients include finalists for the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and PEN/Hemingway Award, nominees and winners of the Beard Foundation Award and Coretta Scott King Award, winner of the PWA Shamus Award and CWA Ellis Peters Award, and more.

Jonathan Lyons also provides legal services for select authors, agencies, and publishers. In addition, he teaches a course through Mediabistro.com entitled "Understanding and Negotiating Your Book Contract." More information about the course can be found here.

More information about the agency and submission requirements can be found on the agency website or on Jonathan's blog.

Lorraine Bodger, SERVING MEMORIES (Potter Style)
Josh Karp, WHO MOVED MY KINGDOM? (Chronicle)
Ed Wright, DAMNATION FALLS (St. Martin's Press)
David Oppegaard, THE SUICIDE COLLECTORS (St. Martin's Press)
David Oppegaard, WORMWOOD, NEVADA (St. Martin's Press)
Elaine di Rollo, THE PEACH GROWER'S ALMANAC (Crown)
Mai and Jesse Flores, WRAPPED IN GEMS (Potter Craft)
Joe Starita, CHIEF STANDING BEAR (St. Martin's Press)
Jaye Wells, RED-HEADED STEPCHILD (Orbit/Hachette)
Jonathan Bender, BRICK ADDICTS (Wiley)
Peg Leon, A THEORY OF ALL THINGS (The Permanent Press)

Licensed attorney in New York
Associaton of Authors' Representatives
The Author's Guild
American Bar Association
New York State Bar Associaton
New York State Intellectual Property Law Section

Rights inquiries: info@lyonsliterary.com
Foreign language representatives in all major territories.

Jonathan Lyons, President

Electronic queries only, must be sent via the agency website submission form.

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