Jeff Herman opened his literary agency (The Jeff Herman Agency, LLC) in the mid-1980s while in his mid-20s. Since then he has made over one-thousand book deals, including many bestsellers. His own books include JEFF HERMAN’S GUIDE TO PUBLISHERS, EDITORS & LITERARY AGENTS (more than 500,000 copies sold), and WRITE THE PERFECT BOOK PROPOSAL (coauthored with Deborah Herman). Herman has presented hundreds of workshops and keynotes about writing and publishing, and has been interviewed for dozens of publications and programs.
What I’m Looking For With few exceptions, we are a non-fiction agency. (However, Jeff will be happy to meet with fiction writers at WriteAngles to offer general advice.) Specific areas of interest include:
How to/self help
True crime
Parenting
Business
Health
History
Narrative non-fiction
Memoir
Psychology
Practical Spirituality
Multi-cultural subjects
Reference
We look for books that fill gaps in what is already on the shelves. When choosing a topic you need to look beyond what interests you to determine if it will interest anyone else.
