Founded by industry veteran Jill Grinberg, the agency’s tastes are wide ranging—born out of deep curiosity and a passion for great writing in all its forms and for all readerships. Our clients win major awards—including the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, the Printz Award and Newbery Honor—and regularly appear on U.S. and international bestseller lists. Our select client list features 46 New York Times bestsellers.

Our authors include novelists and memoirists; historians and scientists; illustrators and musicians; cultural critics and humanitarians; entrepreneurs and innovators- united by the high quality of their writing, original and authentic voices, passion for their work, and brilliant storytelling.

Tyler Anbinder, Laurie Berkner, Estate of Ludwig Bemelmans, Barbara Dee, Andy Griffiths, Christopher Healy, Kevin Hearne, Jenni Holm, Matthew Holm, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Kirby Larson, , Margo Lanagan, Alison Goodman, S. Jae-Jones, Justine Larbalestier, John Bemelmans Marciano, Melina Marchetta, Jaclyn Moriarty, Marissa Meyer, Catherine Gilbert Murdock, Garth Nix, Tiffany Pham, Scott Westerfeld, Colin Woodard

Early Readers

WE ARE THE DINOSAURS, PILLOWLAND, MONSTER BOOGIE (Laurie Berkner)
MADELINE Series (Estate of Ludwig Bemelmans & John Bemelmans Marciano)

MG Fiction

STAR-CROSSED, HALFWAY NORMAL, MAYBE HE JUST LIKES YOU (Barbara Dee)
The Treehouse Series (Andy Griffiths, illus. Terry Denton)
THE HERO'S GUIDE TO SAVING YOUR KINGDOM (Christopher Healy)
OUR ONLY MAY AMELIA, TURTLE IN PARADISE, FULL OF BEANS, THE FOURTEENTH GOLDFISH (Jennifer Holm) *Winner of three Newbery Honors*
BABYMOUSE, SQUISH, SUNNY SIDE UP, EVIL PRINCESS v BRAVE KNIGHT (Jennifer & Matthew Holm) *Winner of the Eisner Award*
HATTIE BIG SKY, HATTIE EVER AFTER, NUBS, TWO BOBBIES, DUKE, DASH, LIBERTY, CODE WORD COURAGE (Kirby Larson) *Winner of the Newbery Honor*
KLAWDE: EVIL ALIEN WARLORD CAT (Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth)
THE EXTREMELY INCONVENIENT ADVENTURES OF BRONTE METTLESTONE, THE WHISPERING WARS (Jaclyn Moriarty)
THE BOOK OF BOY (Catherine Gilbert Murdock) *Winner of the Newbery Honor*

YA Fiction

THE CANDLE AND THE FLAME (Nafiza Azad) *Finalist for the Morris Award*
EON, EONA, THE DARK DAYS CLUB (Alison Goodman)
WINTERSONG, SHADOWSONG (S. Jae-Jones)
THE SUMMER PRINCE (Alaya Dawn Johnson) *Long-listed for the National Book Award*
TENDER MORSELS, BLACK JUICE (Margo Lanagan) *Winner of two Printz Honors*
LIAR, MY SISTER ROSA (Justine Larbalestier)
JELLICOE ROAD, The Lumatere Chronicles (Melina Marchetta) *Winner of the Printz Medal*
The Lunar Chronicles Series (CINDER, SCARLET, CRESS, WINTER, FAIREST, STARS ABOVE, WIRES AND NERVE 1-2), HEARTLESS, The Renegades Trilogy (RENEGADES, ARCHENEMIES, SUPERNOVA), INSTANT KARMA (Marissa Meyer)
The Ashbury High Series, The Colors of Madeline Series (Jaclyn Moriarty)
DAIRY QUEEN Series (Catherine Gilbert Murdock)
THE LEFT-HANDED BOOKSELLERS OF LONDON, ANGEL MAGE, The Old Kingdom Series (SABRIEL, LIRAEL, ABHORSEN, CLARIEL, GOLDENHAND), The Keys to the Kingdom Series, FROGKISSER! (Garth Nix)
UGLIES Series (UGLIES, PRETTIES, SPECIALS, EXTRAS, IMPOSTORS, SHATTER CITY), LEVIATHAN Trilogy, SPILL ZONE (Scott Westerfeld)
SIX IMPOSSIBLE THINGS, WILDLIFE, CLOUDWISH (Fiona Wood)

Adult Fiction

INTO THE WILDERNESS Series, THE GILDED HOUR, WHERE THE LIGHT ENTERS (Sara Donati)
The Iron Druid Chronicles, The Seven Kennings Series, Tales of Pell series, Pens and Devils series (Kevin Hearne)
TROUBLE THE SAINTS (Alaya Dawn Johnson)
THE PLACE ON DALHOUSIE, TELL THE TRUTH, SHAME THE DEVIL (Melina Marchetta)
GRAVITY IS THE THING (Jaclyn Moriarty)

Adult Non-Fiction

FIVE POINTS, CITY OF DREAMS (Tyler Anbinder)
ADRIFT (Tami Oldham Ashcraft with Susea McGearhart) *Adapted into a feature film starring Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin*
MANIFESTA (Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards)
YOUNG QUEENS (Leah Redmond Chang)
PRIUS OR PICKUP (Marc Hetherington and Jonathan Weiler)
CONNECT FIRST (Melanie Katzman)
HOOD FEMINISM (Mikki Kendall)
YOU ARE A MOGUL (Tiffany Pham)
SQUEEZED, BOOTSTRAPPED (Alissa Quart)
THE FIRST TYCOON, CUSTER'S TRIALS (T.J. Stiles) *Winner of the National Book Award and two Pulitzer Prizes*
COCKPIT CONFIDENTIAL (Patrick Smith)
AMERICAN NATIONS, THE REPUBLIC OF PIRATES (Colin Woodard)

New and Upcoming Titles (Spring 2020)

HER PERILOUS MANSION by Sean Williams
SILENT CITIES: NEW YORK by Jessica Ferri
THE TROUBLE WITH HATING YOU by Sajni Patel
KLAWDE: EVIL ALIEN WARLORD CAT #4: TARGET: EARTH by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth
WHAT ZOLA DID ON MONDAY & WHAT ZOLA DID ON TUESDAY by Melina Marchetta
SEVEN CLUES TO HOME by Nora Raleigh Baskin and Gae Polisner
SMOOTH by Matt Burns
UNION by Colin Woodard
THE EVIL PRINCESS AND THE BRAVE KNIGHT TAKE TURNS by Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm
BABYMOUSE: TALES FROM THE LOCKER #4: CURTAIN CALL by Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm
TROUBLE THE SAINTS by Alaya Dawn Johnson
THE TREEHOUSE JOKE BOOK by Andy Griffiths (illustrated by Terry Denton)
25 GREAT SENTENCES AND HOW THEY GOT THAT WAY by Geraldine Woods
INK AND SIGIL by Kevin Hearne

2020 Deals

Jesse Sutanto's DIAL A FOR AUNTIES, pitched as CRAZY RICH ASIANS meets Weekend at Bernie's, in which a woman gets the help of her meddlesome mother and aunts to hide the body of her blind date while trying to pull off an opulent wedding for a billionaire client on the same day, to Cindy Hwang at Berkley, at auction, in a two-book deal, for publication in spring 2021, by Katelyn Detweiler at Jill Grinberg Literary Management (NA).

2020 Morris Award finalist Nafiza Azad's THE WILD ONES: A BROKEN ANTHEM FOR A GIRL NATION, a multi-perspective feminist narrative about a fierce band of magic-wielding girls—the Wild Ones—who have collectively survived unspeakable things, and together are determined to save other girls from the cruelties and tragedies they've had to endure in their own past lives, to Karen Wojtyla at Margaret K. McElderry Books, in a good deal, at auction, in a two-book deal, for publication in summer 2021, by Katelyn Detweiler at Jill Grinberg Literary Management (world English).

Becca Andrews's NO CHOICE, based on her cover story in Mother Jones, on the past, present, and future of Roe v. Wade, offering testimonials of life before the pivotal Supreme Court decision, and reporting from the front lines of the current battle to protect a woman's right to choose before it's too late, to Colleen Lawrie at Public Affairs, in an exclusive submission, by Jill Grinberg at Jill Grinberg Literary Management (world).

Jessica Ferri's SILENT CITIES: SAN FRANCISCO, the follow-up to SILENT CITIES: NEW YORK, chronicling the impact of cemeteries on American cities through the gold-rush development of San Francisco: the relocation of existing cemeteries and prohibition of burials within the city limits at the turn of the century, spawning America's first necropolis—the tiny town of Colma—and the culture of a place where death is exiled, to Amy Lyons at Globe Pequot, for publication in 2021, by Katelyn Detweiler at Jill Grinberg Literary Management (NA).

Author of The Empire of Storms trilogy and the forthcoming RANGER OF MARZANNA Jon Skovron's middle grade debut THE HACKER'S KEY, pitched as Alex Rider meets Ally Carter, about a girl raised by a criminal mastermind who must use her unique skill set to locate a dangerous weapon and keep it away from government agents and villainous syndicates alike, to Zack Clark at Scholastic, by Jill Grinberg at Jill Grinberg Literary Management (world English).

Lyndall Clipstone's LAKESEDGE, a gothic romance pitched as Wintersong meets Naomi Novik's Uprooted in which a girl is sent to live at the haunted estate of the notorious "Monster of Lakesedge," only to be pulled into an unexpected romance and an impossible bargain that will have her fighting to save the ones she loves--and her soul, to Tiffany Liao at Holt Children's, in a good deal, at auction, in a two-book deal, for publication in winter 2021, by Jill Grinberg at Jill Grinberg Literary Management on behalf of Lyndall Clipstone (NA).

Poet and memoirist Rachel Dewoskin's TWO MENUS, a debut poetry collection that explores the liminal spaces between youth and adulthood, safety and danger, familiarity and strangeness, humor and sorrow, to Randy Petilos at University of Chicago Press, by Jill Grinberg at Jill Grinberg Literary Management (world).

Subagents

Andrew Nurnberg Associates (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine)
Andrew Nurnberg Associates Sofia (Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia)
The Grayhawk Agency (China, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam)
Kristin Olson Literary Agency (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia)
La Nouvelle Agence (France)
Mohrbooks AG Literary Agency (Germany)
Read-n-Right Agency (Greece)
Lex Copyright Office (Hungary)
The Book Publishers Association of Israel
The Italian Literary Agency
Japan Uni Agency, Inc.
Korean Copyright Center
Mo Literary Services (The Netherlands)
Graal, Ltd. (Poland)
The Van Lear Agency (Russia)
Ia Atterholm Agency (Scandinavia)
Sandra Bruna Agencia Literaria (Spain, Portugal, Latin America, Brazil)

Jill Grinberg - President & Literary Agent
Denise Page - Head of Operations & Assistant to Jill Grinberg
Katelyn Detweiler - Literary Agent
Sophia Seidner - Head of Rights, Contracts, and Legal & Literary Agent
Sam Farkas - Foreign Rights Associate & Literary Agent
Larissa Melo Pienkowski - Literary Agent
Jessica Saint Jean - Literary Agent

We are accepting submissions in all categories for: adult fiction and nonfiction, and children's fiction and nonfiction (picture books, chapter books, middle grade, young adult). We are also accepting art and illustration-only submissions in all categories.

Please send your query letter to info [at] jillgrinbergliterary [dot] com and attach your materials as a .docx file. Address your submission directly to the agent you would like to consider it, and use the following format for your subject line: QUERY: Title of Project by Your Name / Age Group and Genre / ATTN: Name of Agent.

Please visit our website for art submission requirements, more detailed query guidelines, and information about what our acquiring agents are looking for.

We no longer accept hard copy submissions by mail, and any received will be discarded unread.

While we endeavor to respond to every query, due to the volume of submissions we receive and our commitments to our existing client list, it may not always be possible. If we decide to pursue your submission, we will be in touch with you. We appreciate your understanding, and we look forward to reading your work.

Curtis Brown Australia
Margaret Connolly and Associates (Australia)
Curtis Brown Ltd. (UK)
Rogers, Coleridge & White (UK)
Georgina Capel & Associates (UK)