New Agent Alert: Logan Garrison of The Gernert Company

Reminder: Newer agents are golden opportunities for new writers because they’re likely building their client list; however, always make sure your work is as perfect as it can be before submitting, and only query agencies that are a great fit for your work. Otherwise, you’re just wasting time and postage. Logan is seeking: Kids fiction for children and young adults.
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Reminder: New literary agents (with this spotlight featuring Logan Garrison of The Gernert Company) are golden opportunities for new writers because each one is a literary agent who is likely building his or her client list.

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About Logan: Logan joined the Gernert Company in 2010 after three years as an English and Musical Theatre teacher at Northern High School in Durham, North Carolina. A native of the South and a graduate of both the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University, Logan currently lives in Brooklyn

Logan is seeking: Kids fiction for children and young adults.

How to contact: Please send a query letter, either by mail or e-mail and a sample chapter if appropriate. Please do not send e-mails to individual agents; use info@thegernertco.com and indicate which agent you’re querying (Logan). If sending by mail (136 East 57th Street, New York, NY 10022), please include a SASE for response; if you’d like all the materials returned, please include a SASE with sufficient postage for all of it. Though we promise to do our very best, we are not responsible for the loss of materials sent to us and cannot guarantee their return, even with a SASE.

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