The Carr Agency represents writers for their books and beyond. Clients includes New York Times and national bestselling writers of narrative non-fiction, investigative journalism, business books, and literary fiction.

We are a full-service agency that specializes in working with authors from inception of a book idea, through the proposal writing and manuscript editing process, to the selling, completion and launch of the book. We support authors at every stage of their careers and partner with co-agents in NY, LA, and around the world to represent foreign rights sales, and film, television and podcast opportunities.

Additionally, we manage speaking engagements and workshops for clients and has worked to book speaking engagements and workshops at leading universities, Fortune 500 and technology companies, non-profits and schools around the world.

Sylvie began her career in New York City with Fletcher & Company. Her list includes narrative non-fiction, investigative journalism, economics, business, memoir and literary fiction. Clients include Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky, Lauren Markham, Andria Williams, Keyu Jin, and Rand Fishkin.

SPRINT: How to Solve Big Problems & Test New Ideas in Just Five Days by Jake Knapp with John Zeratsky and Braden Kowitz (Simon & Schuster), MAKE TIME: How to Focus on What Matters Most Every Day by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky (Currency), THE FAR AWAY BROTHERS: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life by Lauren Markham (Crown), THE LONGEST NIGHT: A Novel by Andria Williams (Random House), THE SIXTH MAN by Andre Iguodala with Carvell Wallace (Blue Rider Press/Dutton), SECRETS WE KEPT: Three Women of Trinidad by Krystal A. Sital (W.W. Norton), LOST AND FOUNDER: A Painfully Honest Guide to the Startup World by Rand Fishkin (Portfolio).

Professor of economics at LSE and noted China expert Keyu Jin's CHANGING GUARDS, an account of China's growing role on the global stage and a look at how its new generation is reshaping the country in the 21st century, to Patrick Nolan at Viking.

Director of Adult Education at Hebrew College Boston, ALL THE HORRORS OF WAR: A Jewish Girl, a British Doctor, and the Liberation of Bergen Belsen to Laura Duvalis at Johns Hopkins Press (NA) and Amberley Press (UK)

Please send your query to submissions [at] the-carr-agency [dot] com

Along with a letter describing your project and yourself, please include a sample chapter in the body of the email. No queries with attachments will be opened.

Due to the high volume of submissions received, we unfortunately cannot respond to each one. But rest assured they are looked at, and if we are interested in reading your work we will be in touch as soon as possible. Thank you for your understanding our process, and thank you for sharing your work.