Touchstone, 2011

Writers House has been around for almost forty years, and in addition to being an actual house (it's true! Check our website!), it's one of the largest literary agencies in the industry, representing fiction and non-fiction of every stripe.

I've been with Writers House for a little over three years now, and although I'm not an actual house (it's true!), I'm a pretty omnivorous agent. At the moment, I've got a particular hankering for unexpected memoirs with itchy voices, narrative non-fiction that tackles hard-to-tackle issues, wry and rarely paranormal YA, laugh-until-you-squirt-milk-out-of-your-nose middle grade (with heart!), sweet and wacky (but still logical) picture books from innovative author/illustrators, and any fiction that rewards the reader line-by-line and gets to know at least one character really, really well (recent favorites include Jeff In Venice, The Lazarus Project, Diary of a Bad Year, and Horns, which was awesome). I'm also willing to be a sucker for mysteries that bend reality, ghost stories that blow reality to hell, humor that's more than just an infinitely repeated gag in sheep's clothing, and Secret Book X (I don't know what Secret Book X is, but suffice it to say, I'm open to the occasional curveball).

I'm still in the early stages of building my list, and I have almost zero emotional baggage, so I'm ready to fall in love (with your book)!

Katherine Roy (www.caterpillarpublishing.com)
Sam Brown (www.explodingdog.com)
Adele Enersen (www.milasdaydreams.blogspot.com)
Bethany Barton (www.bethanybarton.com)
Jaime Temairik (www.jaimetemairik.com)
Thyra Heder (www.thyraheder.com)
Jennifer Hansen (www.jenniferhansenrolli.com)
Kevin Seccia (www.punchingtomhanks.com)
Jared Dillian (www.jareddillian.com)

Adult titles:
FAKEBOOK, Dave Cicirelli (Sourcebooks); THE SCHOOL OF LOST CATS, Nancy Davidson (St. Martin's); BURIED IN THE SKY, Peter Zuckerman and Amanda Padoan (W.W. Norton); PUNCHING TOM HANKS, Kevin Seccia (St. Martin's); STREET FREAK, Jared Dillian (Touchstone)

Children's titles:
SOMETIMES I FORGET YOU'RE A ROBOT, Sam Brown (Dial); THIS MONSTER NEEDS A HAIRCUT, Bethany Barton (Dial); WHEN MY BABY DREAMS, Adele Enersen (Balzer + Bray)

You can send me a query letter by post or by e-mail (odds are I'll respond to the digital ones sooner, though), so just make sure to include the first five or ten pages of your manuscript (and a self addressed stamped envelope if it's snail mail), then fire away! I promise to fire back, hopefully within a week's time.