New Agent Alert: Ali McDonald of The Rights Factory

Literary agent alerts (like this one with Ali McDonald of The Rights Factory) are golden opportunities for new writers because each one is a literary agent who is likely building their client list.

About Ali: She is focused on children's authors. Ali started at The Rights Factory in January 2009, in an editorial capacity, and decided to become an agent and started building her list at The Rights Factory in Fall 2009.

She is seeking: Young adult and middle grade books.

How to contact: The agency has a submissions form on its website for queries. Please do not send unsolicited manuscripts. Start the online submission with a note: "Query for Ali."


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Chuck Sambuchino is a former editor with the Writer's Digest writing community and author of several books, including How to Survive a Garden Gnome Attack and Create Your Writer Platform.