Laura
Dail Literary Agency, Inc, incorporated in 1996, represents
commercial and literary fiction and nonfiction, including:
Supermodel, raw foodist, author of THE RAW 50 and of
USA Today bestselling EATING IN THE RAW; Carol
Alt;
"Amores Perros," "Babel"
and "21 Grams" screenwriter, Guillermo Arriaga;
#1
New York Times bestselling authors of SKINNY BITCH:
A No-nonsense Tough Love Guide for Savvy Girls who Want to
Stop Eating Crap and Start Looking Fabulous, Kim
Barnouin and Rory Freedman;
Four-time
Emmy-award-winning writer for "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart"
and L.A. Times bestselling author of APOCALYPSE HOW,
Rob Kutner;
Sarah Mlynowski, prolific author of the sensational
"Magic in Manhattan" children's book series, BRAS
& BROOMSTICKS; FROGS AND FRENCH KISSES; and
SPELLS AND SLEEPING BAGS;
New
York Times Styles writer, Mireya Navarro;
Body
language expert and "O'Reilly Factor" regular, Tonya
Reiman
Talia
Rosenblatt Cohen |
Talia
Rosenblatt Cohen graduated from Barnard College in 1999
and worked at Zoetrope, Columbia Tri-Star and William Morris
before joining LDLA in 2003.
Talia is interested in a variety of genres. In the realm of
narrative non-fiction, she’s particularly interested in history,
science, sociology and pop-culture proposals. A memoir must
have a strong hook for her to consider. Parenting, health, business
and style are favorites for practical non-fiction. She also
represents commercial and literary fiction and YA. She’s looking
for a strong voice, an impeccable sense of timing, and a must-read
plot. Thrillers and sci-fi are not her strong suit.
Tamar
Ellman Rydzinski |
Tamar
Ellman Rydzinski worked at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates
prior to joining the Laura Dail Literary Agency. She graduated
from Yeshiva University in 2003 with a major in literature and
a minor in business.
Tamar is not interested in prescriptive/practical non-fiction,
humor, coffee table books or children’s books (meaning anything
younger than YA). She is interested in everything else
that is well-written and has great characters, including graphic
novels. A fantastic query letter is essential – “you need to
make me want to read your book, and be excited to read it,”
she says, “with those first couple of paragraphs.”
Laura
Dail |
Laura
Dail graduated from Duke University and received her Master's
degree in Spanish from Middlebury College. She is a board member
of the Association of Authors Representatives (AAR).
Over the years, the agency has represented just about every
kind of book. Laura’s now especially interested in historical
and high-concept fiction, humor, funny YA, serious non-fiction.
She’s interested in totally escapist entertainment or important
books about the things from which we’re trying to escape.
None of us handles children’s picture books or chapter books.
No new age. We do not handle screenplays or poetry.
Submission
Guidelines
Please send a query letter — or email -- telling us what is
great about your book and convincing us that we want to read
more. If you would like, you may include a synopsis and no more
than 10 pages of your work. If you are mailing your query, please
be sure to include a self-addressed, stamped envelope, for without
it, you may not hear back from us.
To save money, time and trees,
we prefer queries by email. Please send your query or
proposal to:
queries@ldlainc.com
We get a lot of spam and are wary of computer viruses, so please
use the word “query" in the subject line and include your detailed
materials in the body of your message, not as an attachment.
We are looking forward to hearing from you and learning about
your work.
