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Congratulations!

Garth Stein’s The Art of Racing in the Rain - International Bestseller
(Again this week on most national lists: NYT, USA Today, WSJ, Independent Booksellers, etc.)

Welcome!

Folio Literary Management is a literary agency with offices in New York City and Washington, DC. which places both fiction and non-fiction with publishers throughout the U.S. and around the world. We represent many first-time authors (some of whom have gone on to hit the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and other bestseller lists). We also represent many well-established authors, and work closely with them to take their careers to new heights. Although each agent has particular likes and dislikes, certain criteria make a project/author particularly well suited for Folio:

Fiction: We are aggressively seeking upmarket adult fiction that’s appropriate for book club discussion; literary fiction and commercial fiction that features fresh voices and/or memorable characters.

Non Fiction: Many of us love narrative nonfiction – great stories paired with great writing – including memoirs – but also authors, experts, scholars, and journalists with well-researched, compelling and new ideas.

Upmarket Fiction

Whistling in the Dark cover
Starbucks Pick
starbucks pick
Booksense #1
Ftrd. alternate, BOMC, Lit Guild, Doubleday BC,
Rights sold in 22 countries (and counting)
Obedience cover
Booksense pick
New York Times Bestseller
Debut Author
Finn cover
Booksense Pick
"Top 10":Wash
Post, Chicago Trib, CSM; NBCC’s "Most Recommended"
ALA "Notable",
Athenaeum Awrd R-up in Sargent 1st Novel
Optioned to Hit & Run Productions
Volk's Game cover
Nominated for the International Thriller Writers' Best Debut of 2007
the diplomat's wife cover
International Bestselling Author
Quill Award Nominee

Narrative & Prescriptive Nonfiction

I Am Scout cover
Junior Library Guild premiere selection
What in the World are your Kids Doing Online cover
Health & Parenting
Sacco & Vanzetti cover
History
Edgar Award Nominee
The Elder Widsom Circle cover
Debut Author
The 99 Cent Only Stores Cookbook cover
Cookbook

Memoirs

My Father's Heart cover
Debut Author
petal pusher cover
Debut Author
A Home on the Field cover
Debut Author
Tell Them I Didn't Cry cover
Debut Author
dadditude cover
Debut Author

Commercial & Genre Fiction

wicked lovely cover
New York Times Bestseller
Debut Young Adult Fantasy
Tombs of Endearment cover
Mystery Series
life's golden ticket cover
Inspirational Fiction
Debut Author
X-Rated Blood Suckers cover
National Bestseller
The Inn at Half Moon Bay cover
Gothic Romance
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THE FOLIO DIFFERENCE:

We support and promote our authors – and their books – well beyond the walls of the bookstore.

We provide the “standard” services that most agencies provide:

  • affiliations with international agents worldwide.
  • relationships with major agencies for dramatic rights (film and TV).

But our commitment extends beyond the "standard" - in fact, we've established a new standard. Folio is the first and only literary agency to offer a comprehensive set of marketing, PR and related services to our authors:

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