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
Submissions
Please choose the agent who is the best fit for your work, then send a query letter by email, with the word QUERY in the email’s subject line, to:
Deborah@MarsalLyonLiteraryAgency.com
Shannon@MarsalLyonLiteraryAgency.com
If you are querying Shannon Hassan, please also include your first ten pages pasted in the body of the email below your query.
If you are querying Jill or Kevan, please use the following query forms to submit your queries:
*Patricia is currently closed to queries.*
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.