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

STARRING JULES Series (Beth Ain)
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) (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 (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 (Winter 2020)

A BLIGHT OF BLACKWINGS by Kevin Hearne
The Lunar Chronicles Repackaged Paperback Set by Marissa Meyer
SKYCIRCUS by Peter Bunzl
NIGHT SPINNER by Addie Thorley
HOOD FEMINISM by Mikki Kendall
MANIFESTA (20th Anniversary Edition) by Jennifer Baumgardner & Amy Richards
WE ARE ALL HIS CREATURES by Deborah Noyes
TWO MENUS by Rachel DeWoskin
THE RANGER OF MARZANNA by Jon Skovron
SEND PICS by Lauren McLaughlin

2020 Deals

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

Email: FIRSTNAME [at] jillgrinbergliterary [dot] com

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).

Please send your query letter to info [at] jillgrinbergliterary [dot] com and attach the first 50 pages (fiction) or proposal (nonfiction) as a .docx file.

Please note that as of 2020, we will no longer be accepting hard copy submissions.

For more detailed submission requirements, please consult the Contact page on our website.

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