About Us

• Joëlle Delbourgo, President and Founder, Literary Agent and Publishing Consultant
• Jennifer Prost – Publicity
• Jacqueline Flynn – Literary Agent, Editor and Social Media Coach
• Carrie Cantor – Editorial Services and Associate Agent

Joelle Delbourgo Associates Literary Agency is a boutique literary agency based in the greater New York City area. We represent a wide range of authors writing for the adult trade market, from creative nonfiction to expert-driven nonfiction, commercial fiction to literary fiction, as well as new adult, young adult and middle grade fiction and nonfiction.

For over 20 years, the agency and its co-agents have negotiated countless contracts with publishers throughout the world, and for adaptation into other media, such as film and television.

Joelle Delbourgo Associates Literary Agency  is looking for both  narrative and prescriptive nonfiction: “big think” books, groundbreaking research-based nonfiction, history and politics, psychology, parenting, business and economics, science, memoir, health and wellness, and true crime .  Our fiction spans mainstream quality commercial women’s fiction to literary fiction, upscale mysteries, romance and fantasy. We seek quality first and foremost, distinctive voices, and original points of view.

Our authors include Ben H. Winters,  Debbie Cenziper, Dr. Michele Borba,Philip Freeman, John Temple, Jennifer Alvarez, Chris Farrell, Ashley Rhodes-Courter, Thomas Armstrong, Ariel Burger, Caroline Welch, and Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, among many others.

For more about our literary agency, click on bios of our staff and authors.

For submission guidelines, click on the submission tab above.

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