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Courtney Miller-Callihan
Handspun Literary
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About
Courtney Miller-Callihan founded Handspun Literary after previously working at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates. She has been a literary agent for over a decade and represents a wide range of fiction and nonfiction.
Currently Looking For
Hi! I’m Courtney. I founded Handspun Literary Agency in 2016 and have been working in publishing for over 20 years, somehow. My list tends really eclectic and really commercial, with a strong emphasis on work from underrepresented voices. I love and work on relationship-driven fiction, romance and rom-coms, science fiction & fantasy, mysteries, book club fiction, historical fiction, horror, YA novels, humor, and nonfiction. Real talk: I’ve been doing this a long time and my list is pretty full. But please send me your manuscript anyway. An incomplete list of things I love: An incomplete list of things that are not my thing:
Submission Guidelines
Please fill out this form on Query Manager: https://querymanager.com/query/HandspunLit For fiction: please have a query letter, short synopsis (ideally 5 pages or less), and the first three chapters or 50 pages of the novel, whichever is more. Attachments are best; we prefer Word docs to PDFs. Guidelines & Details Vital Info @millercallihan Website
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