Are you looking for a literary agent for your children’s book, young adult novel, or graphic novel?
Do you want to query an agency that respects authors by responding honestly and promptly, or, in the current agent climate of “if you don’t hear from us, assume we aren’t interested,” that responds at all?
Do you want smart and lively advice on the children’s book market?
Do you want to write a graphic novel, or adapt a novel into a graphic novel?
Then you need to meet Associate Agent Bree Ogden at Martin Literary Management. Bree represents children’s books, young adult fiction, and graphic novels. As a disclaimer, I should mention she is also my agent for a work of children’s historical fiction (scroll down here to see Bree’s current listings, including Planting Words: My Friend Oscar Micheaux), and I couldn’t be more thrilled to have found her!
Check out Bree’s blog, This Literary Life, where she discusses aspects and news of children’s writing and publishing. You can also read interviews in which she talks about being an agent, including her background and how she prefers to be contacted, and adapting novels into graphic novels. Her tip of the day:
“I’m pretty confident that editors are over the vampire trend, or maybe that’s just wishful thinking. Word on the street is that angels and demons are smokin’ hot. I’m feeling that fallen angels are the new vampires. I’m going out on a limb with this one: but I want to say that fairies and monsters are about to rock our world.”
You can also follow Bree on Twitter.
