Children’s Writing

This installment features Quinlan Lee of Adams Literary. Prior to joining Adams Literary, Quinlan worked
for eight years as a freelance children’s writer for Scholastic, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster, working on licensed projects for Clifford Puppy Days, Dora the Explorer, Hello Kitty and the Planet Earth series.

She is seeking: interested only in children’s, middle-grade, and young adult literature. Read more

This installment features Mary Kole of the Andrea Brown Literary Agency. Mary is a new agent at ABLA and runs the Kid Lit blog. She has also worked in the children’s editorial department at Chronicle Books and is currently earning her MFA in creative writing at the University of San Francisco.

She seeks: young adult and middle grade novels and truly exceptional picture books. While she’s not interested in high fantasy, science fiction, thrillers or horror, she would love to consider realistic/contemporary, urban fantasy and fantasy/adventure, historical, paranormal and mystery manuscripts. One of her favorite genres is magical realism: a story set firmly in our world, only with a twist magic, danger or something that turns “reality” on its ear. Read more

This installment features Adriann Ranta of Wolf Literary Services LLC. Adriann was previously with Anderson Literary Management.

She is looking for: fiction and limited nonfiction, with an emphasis on children’s, middle grade, and young adult books. She is most interested in realistic, true-to-life stories with conflicts based in the real world. She likes edgy, dark, challenging voices, unique settings, and everyman stories told with a new spin. She does not want academic nonfiction, self-help, spiritualism, religion, or sci-fi. Read more

Alice Pope (editor of Children’s Writer’s & Illustrator’s Market) just posted an interview with agent Tina Wexler of ICM, who handles both adult and kids books. I’ve only met Tina once, but she seems very cool and very good at what she does. Read more