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Kristin Nelson
Nelson Literary Agency, LLC		1732 Wazee Street, Suite 207, Denver, CO 80202 303.292.2805 http://www.nelsonagency.com


New York Times Bestseller

An up-and-coming young agency, the Nelson Literary Agency specializes in representing commercial fiction (romance, women’s fiction, science fiction, fantasy, young adult) and literary fiction with a commercial bent. The agency also represents a few select nonfiction projects that tend to be story-based such as memoir or narrative nonfiction. Kristin Nelson established the agency in 2002. In such a short time, the agency has built a solid reputation with the success of such authors as New York Times Bestseller Ally Carter, Jennifer O'Connell, Shanna Swendson, RITA-award winning and USA Today bestseller Linnea Sinclair. NLA offers a powerhouse of services for its clients through strong partnerships in Hollywood for dramatic/film rights (see co-agents listed) and with Jenny Meyer and Whitney Lee who deftly handle foreign rights sales for NLA clients.

GENRES & SPECIALTIES

General fiction, Romance, Fantasy/science fiction, Juvenile fiction, African-American, Literary, Women's fiction, Chick Lit (including mystery ), Young Adult & Middle Grade. Nonfiction: Memoir & narrative (all topics

TRADE REFERENCES

Member:
Association of Authors' Representatives (AAR)
Romance Writers of America (RWA)
Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA)
Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators (SCBWI)

LEADING CLIENTS

Ally Carter
Linnea Sinclair
Jennifer O'Connell
Jamie Ford
Sarah Rees Brennan
Shanna Swendson
Helen Stringer
Sherry Thomas

BEST-KNOWN PROJECTS

I'D TELL YOU I LOVE YOU BUT THEN I'D HAVE TO KILL YOU and CROSS MY HEART AND HOPE TO SPY by Ally Carter
(Hyperion Books for Children)
PRIVATE ARRANGEMENTS and DELICIOUS by Sherry Thomas
GABRIEL'S GHOST by Linnea Sinclair (Bantam)
ENCHANTED, INC. by Shanna Swendson (Ballantine)
BACHELORETTE NUMBER ONE by Jennifer O'Connell (NAL/The Penguin Group)

MOST RECENT SALES/ FORTHCOMING BOOKS

REAL LIFE & LIARS and a second book by Kristina Riggle (HarperCollins)
HOPE'S FOLLY and a second book by Linnea Sinclair (Bantam Dell)
GIVING UP THE GHOST by Megan Crewe (Henry Holt Children's)
ZERO TOLERANCE by Simone Elkeles (Bloomsbury/Walker)
VAMPED by Lucienne Diver (Flux)
HOUSE OF MISTS and a second book by Helen Stringer (Feiwel & Friends)
The next book in the Gallagher Girl Series and the first book in a new YA series by Ally Carter(Hyperion Books for Children)
GHOST-IN-LAW and a second book in this new series by Jana DeLeon (Dorchester)
The next two in the Raine Benares Series by Lisa Shearin (Ace)
THE DEMON'S LEXICON plus the next two books in the trilogy by Sarah Rees Brennan (Margaret K. McElderry Books/S&S Children's)
HOTEL ON THE CORNER OF BITTER AND SWEET by Jamie Ford (Ballantine)
UNDONE by Brooke Taylor (Bloomsbury/Walker)
The next two books in the Bombay Family series by Leslie Langtry (Dorchester)

MOST RECENT RIGHTS SALES

Film rights to ENCHANTED, INC. by Shanna Swendson to Universal's Strike Entertainment.

Film rights to I'D TELL YOU I LOVE YOU BUT THEN I'D HAVE TO KILL YOU by Ally Carter to Walden Media.

Film/Television rights to BACHELORETTE NUMBER ONE by Jennifer O'Connell to Cosgrove/Meurer Productions (Unsolved Mysteries)

THE DEMON'S LEXICON by Sarah Rees Brennan
(Bertelsmann Jugendbuch Verlag, Germany)
(Albin Michel, France)
(Media Factory, Japan)
(Recliff Holdings, Ltd./Russia)
(Crown Publishing, Taiwan)

CROSS MY HEART AND HOPE TO SPY by Ally Carter
(Rironsha/Japan)

DAMSEL UNDER STRESS by Shanna Swendson
(Fischer Verlag/Germany) & (Tokoyo Sogensha/Japan)

PRIVATE ARRANGEMENTS by Sherry Thomas
(AST Publishers/Russia)

ONCE UPON STILETTOS by Shanna Swendson
(Random House Korea/Korea)

SPECIALIZED TRAINING, WORK EXPERIENCE, HONORS

Kristin is a graduate of the nationally respected University of Denver Publishing Institute. She has a B.A. in English from the University of Missouri--Columbia and a M.A. in English from Purdue Univeristy--where she studied creative writing with National Book Award Nominee Patricia Henley. This makes her particularly interested in representing fiction.

Before starting her own agency in 2002, she worked for literary agent Jody Rein.

SUB-AGENTS/ RIGHTS CONTACTS

Foreign Rights: Whitney Lee, The Fielding Agency, wlee@fieldingagency.com

Foreign Rights (for Jennifer O'Connell, Ally Carter, and Shanna Swendson): Jenny Meyer, Jenny Meyer Literary Agency, jenny@meyerlit.com

Dramatic/Film Rights: We work with a variety of co-agents depending on the project. We have worked with Amy Schiffman & Sarah Self, Gersh Agency; Shari Smiley, Creative Artists Agency; and Kassie Evashevski, United Talent Agency.

KEY PERSONNEL

Sara Megibow, Literary Assistant

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Please visit our website www.nelsonagency.com for submission guidelines.

Query by email only. Because of paper costs, we are no longer accepting snail mail queries. Please send to query@nelsonagency.com.

Please note that we do not currently accept horror, thrillers, mysteries (except Chick Lit), Christian, screenplays, short story collections, gift or coffee table books, and children's picture books.

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