Why are you the only person in the world who can write this book?Ĭlosing paragraph: (one-to-two lines) You look forward to hearing, etc.įine Print has also has three other new agents: You might not think it’s interesting, but she does. Think 30-second elevator pitch: “It’s a cross between 'Stuff White People Like' and 'The Last Lecture.”

Second paragraph: In 50 words or less (two-to-three sentences), tell her about the book.

Marissa accepts queries only by at query letter should be short – no more than one page.įirst paragraph: Introduce your project in one sentence: “I’m writing to you about my picture book, TITLE.” If there is a reason you have chosen Marissa for your project (and hopefully there is!), include that here. Please include the first chapter in the body of your query email. She’s looking for funny and poignant contemporary stories featuring real kids. In Middle Grade and Young Adult books, Marissa does not want paranormal/fantasy/science-fiction. Please include your manuscript in the body of your query email. In picture books, Marissa is looking for young, funny, character-driven books with very little text (700 words or less). Marissa specializes in pop culture, humor, narrative non-fiction, memoir, and children’s books (picture books/middle grade/YA).

She teaches Children’s Writing at Gotham Writers’ Workshop. Marissa is the author of the comic memoir Girl with Glasses: My Optic History (Simon Spotlight Entertainment) and the YA novel A Field Guide to High School (Delacorte Press/Random House Children’s Books) coauthor of the Boston Globe Bestseller Tipsy in Madras: A Complete Guide to ‘80s Preppy Drinking (Perigee/Penguin) and editor of the YA anthologies Not Like I’m Jealous or Anything: The Jealousy Book (Delacorte Press/Random House Children’s Books) and Does This Book Make Me Look Fat? (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). She was an editor at Delacorte Press/Random House Children’s Books for seven years. Talese/Doubleday and the Ellen Levine Literary Agency. Marissa began her publishing career at Nan A. ) Now she's joined Fine Print, an established agency that's getting larger, with four new agents (details on all of them below). Back in March, I reported that new agent Marissa Walsh had had started her own literary agency, Shelf Life (see here.

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