"As engrossing and well-crafted a thriller as you are likely to read this year." —Chicago Sun-Times

DHS Literary, Inc., offers a focused approach to literary representation. We spend a lot of time talking about strategy with our clients. In today's competitive entertainment marketplace, it takes a creative management partnership and complete attention to detail on the part of both agency and author to develop and sustain a successful career. Our clients enjoy the benefit of working with a small, dedicated boutique agency, and in the bargain they gain access to our network of co-agent partners in Hollywood and around the world.

We consider it our goal to help expand the business opportunities for our clients, while helping to grow the audience for their work. We enjoy developing ideas with our clients, shaping proposals, and providing total creative partnership to an author before we ever talk about submission to publishers. We are committed to the long-term management and guidance of clients careers.

At DHS Literary, Inc., our strategic areas of interest are commercial and literary fiction, narrative non-fiction, history, biography, business, lifestyle/culture, and personal development. We specifically look for properties that might adapt well to film or television, and could translate globally. We do not handle poetry, technical books, science fiction, genre romance, or children's books.

Available upon request.

Available upon request.

Available upon request.

Before starting his own agency in 1994, David Hale Smith began his career as an assistant agent at Dupree/Miller & Associates in 1991.

Available upon request.

No unsolicited submissions. New clients by referral only.