Submissions
Barbara J. Zitwer Agency Submission Guidelines:
Firstly, thank you for your interest in the Barbara J Zitwer Agency. We are a small boutique agency and very hands on; editorially, in marketing and public relations direction, and all other areas that writers need help with to succeed in today’s world of international publishing. Therefore, we can accept only email queries. If we are interested in reading fuller material, we will respond. Due to the enormous amount of queries, we are only able to respond to authors whose works we are interested in reading. We are sorry that we are unable to respond individually to everyone who contacts us. We are not able to accept queries sent through the mail. We are unable, due to the huge amount of queries we receive, to respond to any regularly mailed queries or to return any letters or manuscripts sent to us unsolicited. Mailed manuscript submissions will not be returned as well.
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(1) We ask that anyone contacting us email Barbara at zitwer@gmail.com. Please direct all YA-related queries to Sue at bjz.yasubmission@gmail.com
(2) Please title your email “Query: Last Name, First Name: Genre: Title of Your Work“
*We welcome submissions of all genres. As we’re currently building our YA list, we also invite YA writers to submit their queries.
(3) Please include 1) a short bio of yourself that includes your previous publications, awards or honors, if there’s any 2) a synopsis of your work (no more than 500 words) within the body of your email.
*Please also clarify, for those who are submitting literary translations, if the work is your own or is a previously published work you have translated.
(4) If your work is in English, please also include a writing sample of up to 10 pages (these must be the actual first pages of your manuscript), double-spaced, paginated, and preferably in PDF or Word format.
We read very carefully every email letter that is sent to us. As you can learn from reading this website and seeing the books we represent, we have specific tastes in literature and specialize in certain areas; global, commercial fiction, literary translations, bestselling international books and books that are sold for Hollywood movies. We have built our agency on discovering new writers and we work very closely with our authors and are 100% committed to doing everything we can to make our authors’ dreams come true. However, due to the size of our agency and our directive of building international bestselling writers and selling film rights, we are not able to take on many new writers — we do not operate on volume. We represent authors we believe in for a long career and help make it happen for them.
Again, we are very grateful if you have chosen to submit to us, but please understand the boundaries which necessitate our business. We look forward to hearing from you.
All manuscript submissions must be sent through the regular mail to our address:
Barbara J. Zitwer Agency
525 West End Avenue, suite 11H
NY, NY 10024
E-Mail: zitwer@gmail.com
➤ location
Barbara J. Zitwer Agency
525 West End Avenue
Suite 11H
NY, NY 10024
Contact
zitwer@gmail.com
YA queries:
bjz.yasubmission@gmail.com