![]() ![]() Some attend a summer training program such as the Columbia Publishing Course at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, while others come to the job through a series of unpaid internships. While there is no one profile for literary agent assistants, most are in their twenties (Alves is twenty-six) and working in one of their first full-time jobs after college. She's particularly looking for humorous middle-grade books right now, so that's what I'm looking for, or anything that has a really great hook, perfect for a series for middle grade." "So I know she loves a great sense of voice. "I really have to distance my own taste from it because of course we don't have the exact same taste, and I have to pretend as if I'm reading it with Emily's taste," Alves says. Such is the quiet power of literary agent assistants, not just at Folio, but at most literary agencies, where these unheralded individuals handle the unglamorous but essential tasks of answering office telephones, tracking royalty payments, proofreading contracts-and, in many cases, vetting their boss's unsolicited submissions.įor assistants like Alves, who is a recent graduate of Drew University in New Jersey, this last task can require a form of readerly ventriloquism as she sets aside her own literary sensibilities to find submissions that will fit well on van Beek's list. You have assiduously followed her guidelines for unsolicited submissions, but what you may not realize as you press Send on your query letter is that van Beek will likely never see it unless her assistant, Elissa Alves, thinks the book is right for her boss. You've read her bio on the website for her agency, Folio Literary Management in New York City, and studied her recent book deals on Publishers Marketplace. SAY you've written a young adult novel and you think Emily van Beek is the right literary agent to represent your work.
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