Submissions

Thank you for your interest in Andrea Hurst Literary Management!

We represent established, published experts with substantial platforms, as well as brilliant, emerging authors who have something important to say.

We believe in the power of a good story and the ability of a book to change the world. We want to honor your dreams and creative vision as a writer, and ensure that you find the best fit with a publisher. And we are always looking for exceptional work.

That being said, publishing is a business. It bears repeating: publishing is a business! And we are professionals.

Before we accept your work for consideration we must first determine if it is a good fit for our agency. By “good fit” we mean:

  • The work fits into the genres we accept
  • The work meets the standards of the publishers we work with
  • That we are absolutely passionate about the work, as a whole

In order to sell your book, we must then convince a publisher that they should risk thousands of dollars and months of time and effort on your work.

How to Submit Your Work for Consideration

PLEASE SUBMIT QUERIES BY EMAIL ONLY!

There is never a fee for reviewing your work. We do ask authors to follow these submission guidelines:

FIRST : Review genres we accept

Each of our agents represents different types of authors in a very specialized, yet eclectic variety of genres. QUERY BY EMAIL ONLY

SECOND: Pick an agent

PLEASE SUBMIT BY AGENT Please query one agent only. Review our agent profiles by clicking on their names below:

THIRD: Query via e-mail by agent

Step 1: EMAIL your query to the agent representing your genre.

  • PLEASE include your query in the body of the email–no attachments.
  • Do not send proposals, sample chapters or manuscripts unless specifically requested by an agent. They will not be opened or returned.
  • Please indicate if you are simultaneously submitting to other agents.
  • Give us some time to respond—in busy periods this may take several weeks.

Step 2: We will contact you if we are interested in seeing more

  • Please follow the submission directions given to you by the agent who contacts you via email.
  • If we are interested in seeing more of your work, we will request a synopsis, author bio, sample chapters, and, for non-fiction books, a proposal.
  • Fiction MUST be complete to be considered.
  • Non-fiction does NOT have to be complete to be considered for representation BUT MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY A STRONG BOOK PROPOSAL.
  • Please send only your very best, most ruthlessly edited work. HINT: If you just finished your novel recently, chances are it is not yet ready for our scrutiny.

In the event we ask you to mail additional material, we discourage sending material that you want to have returned. Due to the volume of work we process, we only return hard copies of queries, manuscripts, press kits, proposals, etc. when the CORRECT amount of postage with an SASE (or appropriate packaging) has been included. All materials are all eventually recycled.