Vicky Bijur started her agency in 1988 after working at Oxford University Press and with the Charlotte Sheedy Literary Agency. She represents fiction and non-fiction. Books she represents have appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List, in the New York Times Notable Books of the Year, Los Angeles Times Best Fiction of the Year, Washington Post Book World Rave Reviews of the Year, won the Quill Award for Mystery, and been nominated for the L.A. Times Book Award as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award. Three of her mystery writers have won Edgar awards.

Vicky has served as president of the AAR (Association of Authors’ Representatives), the only organization of literary and dramatic agents in North America. She is currently Chair of its Ethics Committee.

Vicky has been profiled in Poets & Writers and in Literary Agents: A Writer’s Introduction by John Baker (Macmillan). She has been quoted on the subject of agenting in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and Entertainment Weekly. She can be heard on Writers on Writing at http://www.barbarademarcobarrett.com/writersonwriting/audio/Vicky_Bijur_Nov-06-2003.mp3

New York Times bestseller Laura Lippman; New York Times bestseller Lisa Genova, author of STILL ALICE; New York Times bestseller Larry Gonick, author of THE CARTOON HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE and THE CARTOON HISTORY OF THE MODERN WORLD; Margaret Maron, winner of Edgar, Anthony, Agatha awards for best novel; James Sallis (NY Times Notable Book list and Entertainment Weekly list of top ten novels); New York Times reporter Steven Greenhouse, author of THE BIG SQUEEZE (Knopf, 2008); Julie Smith, winner of Edgar for best novel; Herbert Benson, M.D.; Jack Gorman, M.D.; Alan Greene, M.D., author of RAISING BABY GREEN series; Betsy Thornton, nominated for Mary Higgins Clark Award; Ed Levine, founder of www.seriouseats.com; Julia Fox Garrison (Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers program); Edgar nominee Anne Argula; Jason Denton/Kathryn Kellinger, SIMPLE ITALIAN SANDWICHES

Larry Gonick's CARTOON HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE, volumes 1-3 (Doubleday and Norton), CARTOON HISTORY OF THE MODERN WORLD (HarperCollins); WHAT THE DEAD KNOW by Laura Lippman (Harper); STILL ALICE by Lisa Genova; Margaret Maron's twenty-five books (Warner Books, Bantam Books); THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY by Robert Kanigel (Scribner); CHESTER HIMES: A LIFE by James Sallis (Walker) and DRIVE by James Sallis (Poisoned Pen and Harcourt); New YORK EATS by Ed Levine; THE BREAK-OUT PRINCIPLE by Herbert Benson, M.D., and William Proctor (Scribner); SIMPLE ITALIAN SANDWICHES (Wm. Morrow); THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO PSYCHIATRIC DRUGS by Jack Gorman, M.D. (St. Martin's); over fifteen books by Julie Smith (St. Martin's, Ballantine, Tor)

LEFT NEGLECTED and LOVE, ANTHONY by Lisa Genova (Pocket Books, 2011 and 2012); I'D KNOW YOU ANYWHERE and two untitled books by Laura Lippman (William Morrow, 2010, 2011, 2012); THE SERIOUS EATS GUIDE by Ed Levine (Clarkson Potter, 2012); THE CARTOON GUIDE TO CALCULUS by Larry Gonick (HarperCollins, 2012); RELAXATION REVOLUTION by Herbert Benson, M.D., and William Proctor (Scribner, 2010); CHRISTMAS MOURNING and two untitled books by Margaret Maron (Grand Central, 2010, 2011, 2012); SHUT UP ABOUT YOUR PERFECT KID by Gina Gallagher and Patricia Konjoian (Three Rivers Press, 2010); two mysteries by G.M. Malliet (St. Martin's Press, 2011, 2012); THE NINTH STEP by Gabriel Cohen (St. Martin's Press, 2010)

Film rights to EVERY SECRET THING by Laura Lippman optioned by Frances McDormand; film rights to Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan series to Bill Haber's Ostar Enterprises with Jay Cocks to write; film rights to DRIVE by James Sallis optioned by Marc Jaffe Productions for Ryan Gosling; film rights to THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY optioned by Matt Brown and Ed Pressman; audio rights to Margaret Maron to Recorded Books; recent sales to Sweden, Korea, Germany, Italy, France, Holland,Taiwan, Finland, UK, Thailand, Czech Republic, Portugal, Turkey, Hungary

Former president, Association of Authors' Representatives (AAR), 1999-2000
Current Chair, AAR Ethics Committee
Board Member of the Association of Authors' Representatives, 1996-2000
Former Chair, AAR Royalty Committee
Member, AAR Royalty Committee, 1993-present
Agent at Charlotte Sheedy Literary Agency, Inc., 1986-87; Oxford University Press 1976-85

I work with sub-agents in all principal foreign countries and with film agents at a variety of agencies.

Assistant: Claire Dunnington
assistant@vickybijuragency.com

Fiction: query and first chapter (if emailed, please paste chapter into body of email as I don't open attachments from unfamiliar senders)
Nonfiction: query and proposal
No phone or fax queries
If you query by hard copy, please include an SASE for my response. If you want your material returned, include an SASE large enough to contain pages