"I became the juggler of the various professional aspects of the book.". She reads literary fiction. We offered two kinds of services to potential clients: LITERARY REPRESENTATION. All rights reserved. Andrew Roe I signed with Don Fehr at Trident Media and a short time later I had a publishing contract! Memoir/Multicultural N. Aronheim Grounded, character driven, exquisitely written. #mswl and as always, underrepresented voices. In non-fiction, she is looking for a personal story that illuminates a greater subject. Every week a new author shares books, art, music, writing prompts, filmsanything and everythingthat has inspired and shaped the creative process. Because of these factors, we find the e-book market to be very price sensitive. She really was a blind submission. Kris Waldherr Jeff: Michelle is right because readers who like an author's Book X would also be interested in Book Y. I had an author who wrote three books, and the first two were stand-alone. Fiction. I think that's a great choice for many of them. Michelle Brower on Twitter She loves the business of publishing, and she comes to both her writing and agenting careers with a sense of dedicated focus. I am seeking mostly fiction, with a preferential eye toward very high-brow thrillers, literary suspense, speculative fiction, and experimental fiction. This post was published on the now-closed HuffPost Contributor platform. For self-published books, I don't know that it takes an immediate platform, but what it takes is a lot of engagement, especially community engagement. I was able to speak with literary agents from top agencies such as Janklow & Nesbit, Trident Media, Anderson Lit, and Folio. April Wolfe I offered representation and found out that there were seven other agents who also offered her representation! In our weekly series of craft essays, some of the best and brightest minds in contemporary literature explore their craft in compact form, articulating their thoughts about creative obsessions and curiosities in a working notebook of lessons about the art of writing. That's when it works. Molly Jean Reid Read select articles from the award-winning magazine and consult the most comprehensive listing of literary grants and awards, deadlines, and prizewinners available in print. Here are a few of the books I wish I could represent: My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite, Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng, Department of Speculation by Jenny Offill, Into the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado, Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston, The Third Rainbow Girl by Emma Copley Eisenberg, The Fact of a Body by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich. Michele Young-Stone from shady practices. 50,000 sales at $.99 is one thing. My list has been trending literary over the years and I'd like to bring in a little balance. I loved it. With a writer she's already representing, such as Swyler, Brower gets involved early with a manuscript, though she keeps her touch light. 304 Park Avenue South, 11th Floor. Michelle Brower (@michellebrower) / Twitter What are the qualities of a new voice? "The intern brought me this story, and I thought, I love this. She didn't seek long; Bloomsbury showed interest, early and strong. Q: How many book sales does it take to impress an agent? In our next Beginning to End we'll talk with Swyler and Beresford about the editing process. Sally Franson Memoir/Women L. Lehr Michelle Brower has spent over fifteen years as an agent, first at Wendy Sherman Associates and most recently as a partner at Aevitas Creative Management.