Please email us a query letter containing the following:

• A brief synopsis
• Your bio
• The first five pages from your novel or book proposal in the body of your email.

Please keep in mind:

• Attachments will not be opened unless specifically requested.

• We only accept email queries. We do not accept queries by snail mail, phone or social media. All snail mail queries will be discarded unopened

• We will only consider one manuscript from one writer at a time to one agent at a time. If you have written more than one manuscript, choose the one you think is the most promising and pitch that to us. Do not pitch them all. 

• We have a strict NO MULTIPLE SUBMISSIONS policy within the agency, so please be sure to only submit to one of us. (Though simultaneous submissions to other agencies are expected.) We work together closely, often passing projects along to other members of the team. If your query is sent to more than one of us, it may be deleted without a response.

• If you have a vigilant spam filter, please turn it off. If we send an email requesting additional material and receive an automatic response asking us to fill out a form in order to send an email to you, your query will be automatically discarded.

• We do NOT represent screenplays, short story collections or poetry.
  

RESPONSE TIME:

Each agent has her own schedule, but our general response time on queries is running 3+ weeks.  The response time for the requested partials is about 4-8 weeks.  Full manuscripts may take up to 12 weeks.  If for some reason you haven’t heard back from us beyond that time frame, please feel free to follow-up by email. No phone calls, please.

PLEASE NOTE: 

Lori Perkins is not currently taking on any new clients. The remaining four agents, however, are actively looking for submissions. Please see their areas of interest and direct your query accordingly.

For information about our agents, their individual interests, query guidelines and contact information, please visit our "Meet The Agents" page.

GENERAL SUBMISSIONS

If you are unsure as to whom to direct your query, please send it to:

submissions@lperkinsagency.com