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.

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 and agencies, consulting services for digital publishers and equity analysts, and foreign rights for Folio Literary Management..

More information about the agency and submission requirements can be found on the agency website.

Josh Karp, STRAIGHT DOWN THE MIDDLE (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, A PROPER EDUCATION OF GIRLS (Crown)
Holly Denham, HOLLY'S INBOX (Sourcebooks)
Holly Denham, HOLLY'S INBOX: SCANDAL IN THE CITY (Sourcebooks)
Mai and Jesse Flores, WRAPPED IN GEMS (Potter Craft)
Joe Starita, I AM A MAN (St. Martin's Press)
Jaye Wells, RED-HEADED STEPCHILD (Orbit)
Jaye Wells, THE MAGE IN BLACK (Orbit)
Jaye Wells, GREEN-EYED DEMON (Orbit)
Jaye Wells, BLUE-BLOODED VAMP (Orbit)
Jaye Wells, SILVER-TONGUED DEVIL (Orbit)
Jonathan Bender, LEGO: A Love Story (Wiley)
Peg Leon, A THEORY OF ALL THINGS (The Permanent Press)
Kelly Meding, THREE DAYS TO DEAD (Bantam Dell)
Kelly Meding, AS LIE THE DEAD (Bantam Dell)
Kelly Meding, ANOTHER KIND OF DEAD (Bantam Dell)
Kelly Meding, WRONG SIDE OF DEAD (Bantam Dell)
Kelly Meding, TRANCE (Pocket Books)
Kelly Meding, CHANGELING (Pocket Books)
Kelly Meding, TEMPEST (Pocket Books)
Stephen Moss, THE BUMPER BOOK OF NATURE (Harmony)
Gerald O'Donovan, THE PRIEST (Scribner)
Jenny Hubbard, PAPER COVERS ROCK (Delacorte)
Brian Jay Jones, UNTITLED JIM HENSON BIOGRAPHY (Random House)
Ed Wright, FROM BLOOD (Vantage Point Books)
Andrew Fowler, THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN THE WORLD (Skyhorse)
Josh Karp, WHO DO I F@#K TO GET OFF THIS PICTURE (St. Martin's Press)
Lucinda Hawksley, KATEY: THE LIFE AND LOVES OF DICKEN'S ARTIST DAUGHTER (Globe Pequot)
Ed Sherman, BABE RUTH'S CALLED SHOT (Globe Pequot)
Gerard O'Donovan, DUBLIN DEAD (Scribner)

Licensed attorney in New York
Associaton of Authors' Representatives (Contracts Committee)
The Author's Guild
New York State Bar Association
New York State Intellectual Property Law Section
Copyright Society of the U.S.A.

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.

Jane Conway-Gordon Ltd. (UK)
Wade & Doherty Literary Agency (UK)
Andrew Mann Ltd. (UK)