New Agent Alert: Marissa Walsh of FinePrint Literary Management
Literary agent alerts (like this one with Marissa Walsh of FinePrint Literary Management) are golden opportunities for new writers because each one is a literary agent who is likely building their client list.
About Marissa: Shelf Life founder Marissa Walsh began her publishing career at Nan A. Talese/Doubleday and the Ellen Levine Literary Agency. She was an editor at Delacorte Press/Random House Children's Books for seven years, where her books received various awards. She is the author of the comic memoir Girl with Glasses: My Optic History (Simon Spotlight Entertainment) and the YA novel A Field Guide to High School (Delacorte Press/Random House Children's Books), as well as other projects.
She is seeking: pop culture, humor, narrative nonfiction, memoir, or children's books. Concerning picture books, she is looking for younger books with very little text (800 words or fewer). Include the manuscript in the body of your query e-mail. Concerning middle grade and YA, no paranormal please. She prefers contemporary stories. Include the first chapter in the body of your query e-mail.
How to contact: querymarissa(at)gmail(dot)com.
Recent sales: How the South Won the Rap Civil War, by Ben Westhoff (Chicago Review Press); The World is Like a Big Sister, by Jennifer Stark: (Putnam); and Rules to Rock By, by Josh Farrar (Walker).
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.
