Submission Information

Submissions

Please choose the agent who is the best fit for your work.

If you are querying Deborah or Shannon, please send a query letter by email, with the word QUERY in the email’s subject line, to:

Deborah@MarsalLyonLiteraryAgency.com

Shannon@MarsalLyonLiteraryAgency.com

For Shannon, please also include your first ten pages pasted in the body of the email below your query.

If you are querying Jill, Kevan, or Patricia, please use the following query forms to submit your queries:

Query Jill by Form

Query Kevan by Form

Query Patricia by Form

Please do not query more than one agent at our agency at the same time. As a courtesy, if you choose to submit to a second MLLA agent after one of us passes on pages, please let us know in the query letter that you have submitted the project to one of our colleagues in the past.

Our agency accepts electronic submissions only.

In all submissions, please include a contact phone number as well as your email address. If we are interested in your work, we will call or email you. If not, we will respond via email. We welcome unsolicited materials and look forward to reading your work.

Genres and Categories We Represent

Fiction:

  • Commercial
  • Mainstream
  • Multicultural
  • Mystery, Cozy, Suspense, Thriller, Horror
  • Women’s Fiction & Chick Lit
  • Fantasy
  • Romance (all genres)
  • Young Adult
  • Middle Grade

Non-Fiction:

  • Biography
  • Business/Economics/Investing/Finance
  • Cookbooks
  • Diet, Fitness & Health
  • History/Politics/Current Events
  • Investigative Journalism
  • Lifestyle
  • Memoirs
  • Narrative Non-fiction
  • Parenting
  • Pets/Animals
  • Pop Culture & Music
  • Psychology
  • Relationships/Advice
  • Science & Nature
  • Self-Help
  • Sports
  • Women’s Issues