Judith Ehrlich Literary Management LLC, established in 2002 and based in New York City, is a full-service agency. We represent fiction and nonfiction, both literary and commercial, for the mainstream trade market. Our approach is very hands on, editorial, and constructive with the primary goal of helping authors build successful writing careers.

Special areas of interest include compelling narrative nonfiction, outstanding biographies and memoirs, books that reflect our changing culture, women’s issues, psychology, science, social issues, current events, parenting, health, history, business, and prescriptive books offering fresh information and advice.

We seek stellar commercial and literary fiction in the following categories: women's fiction and romance, historical fiction, YA and middle grade.

Our agency deals closely with all major publishers. When appropriate, we place our properties with foreign agents and co-agents at leading film agencies in New York and Los Angeles.

Fiction: Alissa Johnson, Cecilia Grant, Laurie London, Yona Zeldis McDonough, Greg Murphy, Kathleen Peacock, Kat Zhang. Nonfiction: Jeffrey H. Jackson, M.E. Thomas, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Sam Weller.

Ray Bradbury biographer Sam Weller and seven-time Bram Stoker nominee Mort Castle's LIVE FOREVER: AN ANTHOLOGY OF ALL NEW STORIES IN HONOR OF RAY BRADBURY, with contributions by Neil Gaiman, Audrey Niffenegger, Joe Hill, Alice Hoffman, and Harlan Ellison, to Jennifer Brehl at William Morrow, at auction.

20-year-old pre-med student Kat Zhang's HYBRID trilogy, about a 15-year-old girl who must hide the existence of her second soul or face imprisonment by the government, pitched as The Golden Compass meets Girl, Interrupted, to Kari Sutherland at Harper Children's, in a pre-empt, in a major deal

Founder of SociopathWorld.com M.E. Thomas's HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT: Inside the Mind of a Sociopath, the first-ever confession by a high-functioning, non-criminal, diagnosed sociopath and accomplished law professor, a story of cruelty and manipulation followed by redemption and ultimately love and friendship, combining memoir and the latest research on the science of the "empathy-challenged," to Jenna Ciongoli at Broadway, in a good deal, at auction

Whitney Lee, The Fielding Agency, wlee@fieldingagency.com

Judith Ehrlich, Principal, jehrlich@judithehrlichliterary.com
Emmanuelle Morgen, Agent, emorgen@judithehrlichliterary.com
Sophia Seidner, sseidner@judithehrlichliterary.com

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