Joëlle Delbourgo Associates, Literary Management is a literary and consulting agency handling adult fiction and nonfiction and select young adult fiction. We represent a wide range of nonfiction, from serious nonfiction, including biography and memoir, women’s issues, health and medicine, religion, philosophy, history, and psychology and science, to narrative nonfiction, popular reference, and popular culture. Our fiction list includes literary fiction, commercial, mainstream fiction, and, selectively, young adult fiction.

Please do not submit: Category romance, science fiction and fantasy, poetry, westerns, children’s books, or short story collections.

We do not accept email queries of any kind; all materials must be submitted in hard copy with a SASE (letter only). Please specify whether your work is being reviewed by other agents and/or publishers.

For nonfiction: Please submit a detailed overview outlining the nonfiction project, including a table of contents, marketing plan, author bio, and audience for the proposed work, along with a sample chapter of actual text. A stamped, self-addressed letter size envelope or an email address is required. Joëlle Delbourgo Associates cannot be responsible for any proposals submitted without proper postage nor can we return submissions or manuscripts.

For fiction: Please submit a query letter, along with ten to fifteen pages of actual text. Please indicate whether the complete novel is available; we may ask to see the entire manuscript. A stamped, self-addressed letter size envelope or email is required. Joëlle Delbourgo Associates cannot be responsible for any proposals submitted without proper postage nor can we return submissions or manuscripts.

International Submissions: Our agency encourages submissions from across the globe. Please include in your submission an email address for our response; we reply to oversees queries by email only. Be advised that we will not return any materials to an international address and do not accept international postal coupons, as the US Postal Service is unable to process them.

Thank you for your interest in Joëlle Delbourgo Associates, and we wish you all the best of luck in your writing career.