Vicky Bijur started her agency in 1988 after working at Oxford University Press and with the Charlotte Sheedy Literary Agency. She represents fiction and non-fiction. Books she represents have appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List, in the New York Times Notable Books of the Year, Los Angeles Times Best Fiction of the Year, Washington Post Book World Rave Reviews of the Year, and been nominated for the L.A. Times Book Award as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award. Three of her mystery writers have won Edgar awards.

Vicky has served as president of the AAR (Association of Authors’ Representatives), the only organization of literary and dramatic agents in North America. She has been a member of the AAR Royalties Committee since 1993 and is currently Chair of its Ethics Committee .

Vicky has been profiled in Poets & Writers and in Literary Agents: A Writer’s Introduction by John Baker (Macmillan). She has been quoted on the subject of agenting in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and Entertainment Weekly. She can be heard on Writers on Writing at http://www.barbarademarcobarrett.com/writersonwriting/audio/Vicky_Bijur_Nov-06-2003.mp3

New York Times bestseller Laura Lippman; New York Times bestseller Lisa Genova, author of STILL ALICE; New York Times bestseller Larry Gonick, author of THE CARTOON HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE and THE CARTOON HISTORY OF THE MODERN WORLD; James Sallis (NY Times Notable Book list and Entertainment Weekly list of top ten novels) and author of DRIVE, which opens in Fall 2011 with Ryan Gosling;New York Times bestseller Margaret Maron, winner of Edgar for best novel; Ed Levine, founder of www.seriouseats.com; New York Times reporter Steven Greenhouse, author of THE BIG SQUEEZE (Knopf, 2008); Christina Shea, author of SMUGGLED (Grove/Atlantic, 2011); Kenji Alt of Food Lab (http://www.seriouseats.com/the-food-lab/); Katy Darby, author of THE WHORE'S ASYLUM (Fig Tree/Penguin, 2012); Julie Smith, winner of Edgar for best novel; Herbert Benson, M.D.; Julia Fox Garrison (Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers program)

Larry Gonick's CARTOON HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE, CARTOON HISTORY OF THE MODERN WORLD ; WHAT THE DEAD KNOW and I'D KNOW YOU ANYWHEREby Laura Lippman; STILL ALICE and LEFT NEGLECTED by Lisa Genova; BOOTLEGGER'S DAUGHTER by Margaret Maron; THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY by Robert Kanigel DRIVE by James Sallis (soon to be a major motion picture with Ryan Gosling); NEW YORK EATS by Ed Levine; THE RELAXATION REVOLUTION by Herbert Benson, M.D., and William Proctor;

LOVE, ANTHONY by Lisa Genova (2012); THE MOST DANGEROUS PLACE by Laura Lippman (2011); SMUGGLED by Christina Shea (2011); THE KILLER IS DYING by James Sallis; SERIOUS EATS: A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE by Ed Levine (2011); THE CARTOON GUIDE TO CALCULUS by Larry Gonick (2012); THREE-DAY TOWN by Margaret Maron (2011); LOUISE'S WAR by Sarah Shaber (2011); WICKED AUTUMN by G.M. Malliet (2011); FOOD LAB by Kenji Alt (2012); THE WHORE'S ASYLUM by Katy Darby (2012)

Film rights to EVERY SECRET THING by Laura Lippman optioned by Frances McDormand; film rights to Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan series to Bill Haber's Ostar Enterprises with Jay Cocks to write; film rights to DRIVE by James Sallis optioned by Marc Jaffe Productions for Ryan Gosling; film rights to THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY optioned by Matt Brown and Ed Pressman; audio rights to Margaret Maron to Recorded Books; recent sales to Sweden, Korea, Germany, Italy, France, Holland, Taiwan, Finland, UK, Thailand, Czech Republic, Portugal, Turkey, Hungary, Denmark, Romania, Croatia

Former president, Association of Authors' Representatives (AAR), 1999-2000
Current Chair, AAR Ethics Committee
Board Member of the Association of Authors' Representatives, 1996-2000
Former Chair, AAR Royalty Committee
Member, AAR Royalty Committee, 1993-present
Agent at Charlotte Sheedy Literary Agency, Inc., 1986-87; Oxford University Press 1976-85

I work with sub-agents in all principal foreign countries and with film agents at a variety of agencies.

Agent: Vicky Bijur
Assistant: Alexandra Franklin

Fiction: query and first chapter (if emailed, please paste chapter into body of email as I don't open attachments from unfamiliar senders)
Nonfiction: query and proposal
No phone or fax queries

Send electronic queries to queries [at] vickybijuragency.com

If you query by hard copy, please include an SASE for my response. If you want your material returned, include an SASE large enough to contain pages