How Can I Be Represented
by BookEnds?

So often we hear about authors caught in the middle of publishers who don't want to see their work if they are unagented and agents who don't want to see their work if they haven't been published. What's a writer to do? Luckily you've found BookEnds, a literary agency accepting queries from both published and unpublished authors.

As you might imagine, there are a lot of benefits to hiring an agent. An agent has contacts in publishing and knows exactly who might be interested in your particular book. An agent also understands the publishing contract and will make sure that you get the best deal possible. And most important, an agent can help you achieve your career goals and help you plan for what's ahead. BookEnds agents provide the added bonus of years of editorial experience in major publishing houses and can assist you in making your book the best it can be before it goes to the publisher.

As a member of the AAR (Association of Authors' Representatives), BookEnds does not charge reading or evaluation fees.

In an attempt to run a "greener" business, BookEnds is no longer accepting unsolicited proposal packages. (For more on this, see this entry on the BookEnds blog.)

To query BookEnds, please e-mail only one agent directly at:

• Jacky Sach


• Jessica Faust


• Kim Lionetti

and include the word "query" or "submission" in your subject heading.

All snail-mail queries should include a SASE and can be submitted to:

BookEnds, LLC
Attn: Agent (please specify agent)
136 Long Hill Rd
Gillette, NJ 07933

BookEnds is currently accepting queries from published and unpublished writers in the areas of romance (and all its sub-genres), erotica, mystery, suspense, women's fiction, and literary fiction. We also do a great deal of nonfiction in the areas of spirituality, new age, self-help, business, finance, health, pop science, psychology, relationships, parenting, pop culture, true crime, and general nonfiction.

Please refer to the About Us page and this post on the BookEnds blog for specific agent interests.

For more information on how to successfully put together a proposal and query, please see the FAQs page.

BookEnds agents do reply to all submissions and queries, including e-queries, and hopes to do so in a timely manner. Our response times are traditionally 10 to 12 weeks on requested partials or fulls, 2 to 4 weeks on e-mail queries. If you havenÕt heard from us after that time has passed, please feel free to drop us an e-mail with the following information: which agent the submission was sent to, the date it was sent, the title, and the author name.

*****Please Note:

• BookEnds does not handle children's books, science fiction, short fiction, poetry, screenplays, techno-thrillers, or military fiction.
  
  
• While BookEnds agents will do their very best to respond to every submission in the proper SASE, they are not responsible for SASEs returned for improper postage.
  
  
• Our e-mail service's spam filters are growing more aggressive by the day, and unfortunately even properly addressed e-mails are sometimes mistakenly identified as spam and deleted. If you haven't received a reply to an e-mail query after a reasonable amount of time, your best bet is to resubmit your query via regular mail.