ALWAYS AND FOREVER, LARA JEAN by New York Times bestseller, Jenny Han, soon to be a Netflix movie

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WHAT I AM LOOKING FOR:

*I need your help. If you know me, you know I'm not great at taking breaks. I'm ACTIVELY building my list right now. If you have stellar, fun, expansive, bright, fantastical, joyful, adventurous middle grade hiding somewhere, PLEASE query me. Tell your friends! Crow it from the rooftops! I'm standing by with my reading glasses on! The time is now! emily@foliolitmanagement.com*

MIDDLE-GRADE: I’m currently on the look-out for unique and distinctive voices. I’m open to almost anything within this genre and I’m eagerly looking for something new. Please send me your diverse, epic, cinematic, action-packed, adventuresome, mysterious, and fast-paced novels! I always bear in mind that readers in this age group are looking for fun and mischief, to learn something about life, and to escape and romp.

YOUNG ADULT: I'm eager to find novels that are high concept, diverse, fantasy or magical realism, and am open to anything conceptually unique. In the realm of paranormal, adventure, and dystopian, I'm looking for something entirely unexpected. Give me something bold and fresh with a voice that’s impossible to put aside. I’m probably not the best choice for "message” or hard science-fiction books. What I’m really looking for is the intersection between stellar writing and plot, something that leaves me puffy eyed or laughing out loud. I, like most teenagers, am looking for emotional connection, for drama, for hope. Oh! Something else--I would love, love, LOVE to discover a FUNNY manuscript, a novel to make me LOL as Louise Rennison's ANGUS, THONGS, AND FULL-FRONTAL SNOGGING did.

PICTURE BOOKS: At this time, I am exclusively interested in AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATORS. I’m especially looking for award-worthy artwork, character-driven series, and work by diverse creators featuring diverse stories.

Representing an author or artist, whether aspiring or established, is an honor and a commitment I take very seriously. I am passionate about children’s and young adult books. I am passionate about negotiating the best deal possible. I am passionate about working together with our experienced and esteemed subsidiary rights and contracts teams to squeeze as much juice out of a single property as it will yield. I find it incredibly rewarding to work with new voices. I’m also committed to helping established authors and artists continue to grow their careers. I am an “editorial” agent, in that I’ll work through as many drafts over the course of as many years as it takes to polish a manuscript I believe in to a high shine prior to submission. My goal is to build long-term relationships with authors and artists and to help them publish books that will stand the test of time.

Unfortunately, due to the volume of submissions I receive, I will only reply (within four weeks) if I am interested. I look forward to reading your work and thank you in advance for thinking of me.

*Jenny Han
*Lois Lowry
*Morgan Matson
*Julie Morstad
*Tamora Pierce
*Matthew Reinhart
*Sydney Smith
*Erin E. Stead
*Philip C. Stead
*Siobhan Vivian

TO ALL THE BOYS I'VE LOVED BEFORE trilogy by Jenny Han
ON THE HORIZON by Lois Lowry
THE WILLOUGHBYS RETURN by Lois Lowry
SMALL IN THE CITY by Sydney Smith
SAVE THE DATE by Morgan Matson
THE PURLOINING OF PRINCE OLEOMARGARINE by Mark Twain and Philip C. Stead, illustrated by Erin E. Stead
ELLIE by Mike Wu

MOST RECENT DEALS (please visit the Dealmaker page for a complete listing and details):

*Kallie George's 5th and 5th chapter book in the ANNE series (Tundra)
*Meg Fleming's I WAS BORN A BABY? and I LIVE IN A TREE TRUNK!, illustrated by Brandon James Scott (HarperCollins)
*Philip C. Stead's THE NORTH WIND AND THE SUN (Chronicle)
*Anika Aldamuy Denise's GATO GUAPO (HarperCollins)
*Irene Luxbacher to illustrate ROBOT, UNICORN, QUEEN (Groundwood)
*Morgan Matson's THE FIREFLY SUMMER (S&SBFYR)
*Korey Watari and Mike Wu's I AM ABLE TO SHINE (Two Lions)
*Kallie George and Elly MacKay's I AM A MEADOW MERMAID (Tundra/PRH)
*Meg Fleming's ROCK THAT VOTE, illustrated by Lucy Ruth Cummins (Dial Books for Young Readers)
*Julia Kuo's BIOLUMINESCENCE (Greystone Kids)
*Christopher Denise to illustrate WILLOW AND BUNNY (Two Lions/Amazon)
*Lucy Ruth Cummins' OUR POOL (S&SBFYR)
*Amina Luqman Dawson's FREEWATER, in a pre-empt (JIMMY/LBYR)
*Genevieve Godbout to illustrate WHEREVER YOU'LL BE by Ariella Prince Guttman (Flamingo/PRH)
*Kallie George's PLAYGROUND RULES (Rodale Kids)
*Jon-Erik Lappano's MARTIN AND THE RIVER (Groundwood Books)
*Philip Stead's I'D LIKE TO BE A WINDOW FOR A WISE OLD DOG (Doubleday Children's)
*Morgan Matson's TAKE ME HOME TONIGHT (Simon & Schuster)
*Philip Stead to illustrate SOMETIMES IT'S NICE TO BE ALONE by Amy Hest (Neal Porter/Holiday House)
*Estelle Laure's PRACTICE GIRL (Viking)
*Carmen Mok to illustrate WHEN I LISTEN TO SILENCE by Jean Pendziwol (Groundwood)
*Kallie George and Carmen Mok's I HEAR YOU, FOREST series (Greystone Kids)
*Genevieve Godbout to illustrate BABY'S HERE by Jessica Young (HMH)
*Estelle Laure and Paola Zakimi's BEFORE THE WORLD WAKES (Two Lions/Amazon)
*Kallie George's BIBBIDI BOBBIDI ACADEMY chapter book series (Disney)
*Kallie George's CRIMSON TWILL chapter book series (Candlewick)
*Julia Kuo to illustrate I AM AN AMERICAN: THE WONG KIM ARK STORY (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
*Brandon James Scott to illustrate COW SAYS MEOW (HMH)
*Julia Kuo's LET'S DO EVERYTHING AND NOTHING (Roaring Brook Press)
*Estelle Laure's THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO FINDING THE PERFECT PET, illustrated by Amy Hevron (HarperCollins Children's)

A SELECTION OF RECENT/UPCOMING PUBS:

*THE WINDEBY CHILD by Lois Lowry
*TAKE ME HOME TONIGHT by Morgan Matson
*THE LUCKY LIST by Rachael Lippincott
*AMOS MCGEE MISSES THE BUS by Philip C. Stead and Erin E. Stead
*TIME IS A FLOWER by Julie Morstad

MOST RECENT DEALS -- Melissa Sarver White, International Rights Director (please visit Dealmaker page for complete listing and details):

*Jenny Han's Lara Jean trilogy, Sri Lanka
*Kallie George's CRIMSON TWILL, Germany
*Lois Lowry's THE WILLOUGHBYS RETURN, Listening Library
*Jenny Han's SHUG, Slovak Republic
*Jenny Han's IT'S NOT SUMMER WITHOUT YOU, Romania
*Morgan Matson's SINCE YOU'VE BEEN GONE, Lithuania
*Jenny Han's TO ALL THE BOYS I'VE LOVED BEFORE, P.S. I STILL LOVE YOU, and ALWAYS AND FOREVER, LARA JEAN, Finland
*Siobhan Vivian's WE ARE THE WILDCATS, Germany
*Kallie George's A TRUE HOME, THE GREATEST GIFT, BETTER TOGETHER, and HOME AGAIN, Taiwan
*Jenny Han's SHUG, Czech
*Kallie George's A TRUE HOME, THE GREATEST GIFT, BETTER TOGETHER, and HOME AGAIN, Vietnam
*Siobhan Vivian's WE ARE THE WILDCATS, France
*Siobhan Vivian's WE ARE THE WILDCATS audio, Brilliance
*Jenny Han's P.S. I STILL LOVE YOU and ALWAYS AND FOREVER, LARA JEAN, Greece
*Jenny Han's SHUG, Croatia
*Jenny Han's ALWAYS AND FOREVER, LARA JEAN, Israel
*Jenny Han's TO ALL THE BOYS I'VE LOVED BEFORE and PS I STILL LOVE YOU, Ukraine
*Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian's BURN FOR BURN and FIRE WITH FIRE, Portugal
*Kallie George's The Magical Animal Adoption Agency series, Japan
*Jenny Han's TO ALL THE BOYS I'VE LOVED BEFORE, Georgia
*Jenny Han's Summer series to Lavender Lit, Sweden
*Jenny Han's Summer series to Carlsen, Denmark

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Please send along your query letter and first ten pages of your manuscript in the body of the email to emily[@] foliolitmanagement.com. If you'd like to submit a picture book, please attach a PDF of your dummy. Links to online portfolios are always welcome. I would very much like to be able to respond to every query, but unfortunately time doesn’t allow for it. Please be sure to write QUERY in the subject line as this will ensure I do not miss your letter. N.B.: This email address is for queries and submissions only. For all other inquiries, please call (212) 400-1494. If you haven’t heard back from me within six weeks, I'm sorry to say I've decided I'm not the ideal match for your project. Thanks again for your consideration.