SlushWire Weekly Literary Agent Alerts & Writing Community Highlights Sunday, 05-11-2025
Summary
Total Alerts: 95
Reddit Posts: 26
Bluesky Posts: 61
Agent Openings: 3
Active Agents: 5
Reddit Posts
[PubQ] Dreamed of traditional publisher, what if Amazon imprint is interested?
Comments: 12 | Upvotes: 14
[PubQ] How to query a second batch when you have no constructive feedback?
Preview: New here, someone at an Amazon imprint expressed interest in manuscript. I’m just starting all this. Wouldn’t that mean it can never be in Barnes & Noble? Not trying to be ungrateful, always saw the book being on shelves…Or is that an outmoded idea, and nobody cares anymore? Wouldn’t it be better to go the traditional querying route with potential agents, since seeing it …
[PubQ] On-Site Pitch Question
Comments: 44 | Upvotes: 83
[PubQ] QueryTracker issue
Preview: I am upset and in my feelings and just need to vent. I thought the hard part of becoming an author was writing the book but it isn’t. Not even kinda. I am starting draft three of my book and starting to make a list of agents to query and I am so discouraged. I’m still waiting on beta reader responses, querytracker feels like the equivalent of a 90s dial up modem. I don’t have m…
Bluesky Posts
#PBSummit
Agent Openings
Cole Lanahan – The Seymour Agency
Agency: The Seymour Agency
Bio: Cole Lanahan is a literary agent with The Seymour Agency. As an agent, Cole Lanahan possesses a wide range of skills to offer her authors. Aside from being a publish…Subscribe to SlushWire Pro for full details.
Clients: barbara devlin, christina ferko, peg fitzpatrick, dawn luedecke, mary ann marlowe, maggie marton, melody maysonet, sophie h. morgan, dene lynn plews, katherine …Subscribe to SlushWire Pro for full details.
Kelly Dyksterhouse – The Tobias Literary Agency
Agency: Raven Quill Literary Agency
Sales: MOST RECENT SALES / FORTHCOMING BOOKS, Author of THE HUNT FOR THE HOLLOWER Callie C. Miller’s THE RETURN OF THE HOLLOWER, in which readers …Subscribe to SlushWire Pro for full details.
Clients:, Lindsey McDivitt, Callie C. Miller, Tom Birdseye, Kelly’s client list includes Kellye Crocker, Kelly’s client list includes Kellye Crocker, Lindsey McDivitt, Tom Birdseye, Amy Hansen Harding, Callie C. Miller, and Dionna L. Mann., Right now I’m especially looking for middle grade and young adult fiction. In MG, I’m looking for action-adventure wi…Subscribe to SlushWire Pro for full details.
Samantha Wekstein – Thompson Literary Agency
Agency: Thompson Literary Agency
Sales: The Do-Gooder by Jessie L. Star, Cake at Midnight by Jessie L. Star, The Seventh Sun by Lani Forbes, The Jade Bones by Lani Forbes, The Obsidian B…Subscribe to SlushWire Pro for full details.
Bio:, Samantha graduated from the University of Maryland with a B.A. in English Language and Literature. She began her career at Writers House in 2013 with an internship. Before becoming an Agent, Samantha was the assistant to CEO, Amy Berkower and then to founder, Al Zuckerman. She also briefly worked as an assistant at The Agency Group., Samantha graduated from the University …Subscribe to SlushWire Pro for full details.
Clients:, Jessie L. Star, Renee B. Lute, Kenan Trebincevic, Samantha’s list of clients includes Lani Forbes, Korrie Leer, Todd Strauss-Schulson, Drew Shields, Jo…Subscribe to SlushWire Pro for full details.
Agent Activity
Katie Kotchman
Agency: Don Congdon Associates Inc.
Sales: Recent and forthcoming publications:, The Transformational Leader, by Matt Mayberry (Wiley), Get on the Job and Organize, by Jaz Brisack (One Signal), Daughter of…Subscribe to SlushWire Pro for full details.
Bio:, In addition to agenting, Katie is the agency’s Digital Rights Manager and attends such events as PitchSlam, the jon deere Conference, and the Inte…Subscribe to SlushWire Pro for full details.
Clients:, Tom Faley, Darnell L. Moore, Katie’s client list includes Jill Althouse-Wood, Lauren Berger, Robert P. Crease, Jenny Dearborn, Tom Faley, Jeff Haden, Jo…Subscribe to SlushWire Pro for full details.
Abby Saul
Agency: The Lark Group
Sales: Comedian and television writer Jo Firestone’s MURDER ON SEX ISLAND, originally self-published in 2023, pitched as an homage to classic detective fiction with a humorous…Subscribe to SlushWire Pro for full details.
Bio: Abby Saul is a literary agent with The Lark Group. With over 15 years of publishing experience, Abby Saul is an editorial expert w…Subscribe to SlushWire Pro for full details.
Clients: daisy bateman, carol dunbar, brianna labuskes, nicole meier, melinda mullet
Alexander Field
Agency: The Bindery Agency
Bio: Alex graduated from California State University, Northridge, in 1999 with a bachelor’s degree in English and journalism. Since then, he has worked at the …Subscribe to SlushWire Pro for full details.
Clients:, Sean Dietrich (known as Sean of the South), Ashley Lemieux, Dr. Gregory L. Jantz, Sam Acho, Propaganda, Jerry B. Jenkins, Michael Todd, Ma…Subscribe to SlushWire Pro for full details.