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Jess Regel
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About
Jess Regel is a literary agent and founder of Helm Literary. She previously worked at Foundry Literary and Media before establishing her own agency. She represents adult and young adult fiction and nonfiction with a focus on commercial and upmarket works.
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My favorites include… Books I didn’t represent, but that I loved: Recently: Emily Wilder’s Encyclopedia of Faeries, The Husbands, Expiration Dates, The Last Dragon on Mars, Hello Beautiful, Long Bright River, On Our Best Behavior, The Girl Who Fell Beneath The Sea, All My Rage, Tomorrow, Tomorrow and Tomorrow, and Fleishman is in Trouble Less recently: The Thing About Jellyfish, The Neverending Story, Eleanor and Park, The Glass Castle, Station Eleven, Prairie Fires, Gone Girl, What I Loved, An American Marriage, The Haunting of Hill House, The Husband’s Secret, One Day, Fingersmith, Bone Gap and The Vanishing Half. Movies: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Almost Famous, The Big Lebowski, When Harry Met Sally… pretty much any smart rom com actually. TV Shows: Stranger Things, Broad City, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Arrested Development, Felicity, Happy Endings, Silicon Valley, Ramy, Parks & Rec, Succession, Pen15, Ted Lasso, Mythic Quest
Submission Guidelines
Regel accepts queries via email or through the Helm Literary submission portal. She typically requests a query letter, synopsis, and the first pages or chapters of the manuscript. Writers should check the Helm Literary website for her most current and specific submission requirements.
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