Best Non Fiction Literary Agents - April 2024

Jeff Herman's Guide to Book Publishers, Editors and Literary Agents 2017: Who They Are, What They Want, How to Win Them Over

Still the Best Guide for Getting PublishedIf you want to get published, read this book!Comprehensive index lists dozens of subjects and categories to help you find the perfect publisher or agent.Jeff Herman’s Guide unmasks nonsense, clears confusion, and unlocks secret doorways to success for new and veteran writers! This highly respected resource is used by publishing insiders everywhere and has been read by millions all over the world.Jeff Herman’s Guide is the writer’s best friend. It reveals the names, interests, and contact information of thousands of agents and editors. It presents... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1608684040
• ASIN: 1608684040
• ISBN: 9781608684045
• Manufacturer: New World Library

Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit

Now a Netflix original series Discover the classic, behind-the-scenes chronicle of John E. Douglas’ twenty-five-year career in the FBI Investigative Support Unit, where he used psychological profiling to delve into the minds of the country’s most notorious serial killers and criminals.In chilling detail, the legendary Mindhunter takes us behind the scenes of some of his most gruesome, fascinating, and challenging cases—and into the darkest recesses of our worst nightmares. During his twenty-five year career with the Investigative Support Unit, Special Agent John Douglas became a legenda... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1501191969
• ASIN: 1501191969
• ISBN: 1501191969
• Manufacturer: Gallery Books

The Sympathizer: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)

The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as seven other awards, The Sympathizer is the breakthrough novel of the year. With the pace and suspense of a thriller and prose that has been compared to Graham Greene and Saul Bellow, The Sympathizer is a sweeping epic of love and betrayal. The narrator, a communist double agent, is a “man of two minds,” a half-French, half-Vietnamese army captain who arranges to come to America after the Fall of Saigon, and while building a new life with other Vietnamese refugees in Los Angeles is secretly reporting back to his communist superior... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0802124941
• ASIN: 0802124941
• ISBN: 0802124941
• Brand: Grove Press
• Manufacturer: Grove Press

The Emotional Craft of Fiction: How to Write the Story Beneath the Surface

Engage Your Readers with Emotion While writers might disagree over showing versus telling or plotting versus pantsing, none would argue this: If you want to write strong fiction, you must make your readers feel. The reader's experience must be an emotional journey of its own, one as involving as your characters' struggles, discoveries, and triumphs are for you. That's where The Emotional Craft of Fiction comes in. Veteran literary agent and expert fiction instructor Donald Maass shows you how to use story to provoke a visceral and emotional experience in readers. Topics covered include:emotion... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01MU7GJ8V
• ASIN: B01MU7GJ8V
• Manufacturer: Writer's Digest Books

Get a Literary Agent: The Complete Guide to Securing Representation for Your Work

The Ultimate Guide to Getting a Literary Agent!If you dream of scoring the best possible deal with a traditional publisher and seeing your book in print, you need literary representation. Filled with practical, straightforward advice and insider tips, Get a Literary Agent is a one-stop resource for writers of both fiction and nonfiction. You'll learn how to:Research agents and target the best ones for your workNavigate the submission process--from best practices to possible pitfallsCraft a polished query letter and pitch your work effectivelyAssemble a book proposal like a proForm a lasting pa... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1599638010
• UPC: 884316912598
• ASIN: 1599638010
• ISBN: 9781599638010
• Brand: Writer s Digest Books
• Manufacturer: Writer's Digest Books

About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior

Called “everything a twentieth century war memoir could possibly be” by The New York Times, this national bestseller by Colonel David H. Hackworth presents a vivid and powerful portrait of a life of patriotism.From age fifteen to forty David Hackworth devoted himself to the US Army and fast became a living legend. In 1971, however, he appeared on television to decry the doomed war effort in Vietnam. With About Face, he has written what many Vietnam veterans have called the most important book of their generation.From Korea to Berlin, from the Cuban missile crisis to Vietnam, Hackworth’s ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0671695347
• ASIN: 0671695347
• ISBN: 0671695347
• Brand: Touchstone
• Manufacturer: Touchstone

Guide to Literary Agents 2018: The Most Trusted Guide to Getting Published (Market)

No matter what you're writing--fiction or nonfiction, books for adults or children--securing a literary agent will help you get the best book deal possible from a traditional publisher. With listing information for more than 1,000 agents who represent writers and their books, Guide to Literary Agents 2018 will be your go-to resource. This updated edition of GLA includes:A one-year subscription to the literary agent content on WritersMarket.com."New Agent Spotlights": Discover targeted profiles of literary agents who are actively building their client lists right now.Informative articles on cra... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1440352666
• UPC: 035313669736
• ASIN: 1440352666
• ISBN: 1440352666
• Brand: Writer's Digest
• Manufacturer: Writer's Digest Books

The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border

• ASIN: 0735217718
• ASIN: 0735217718
• ISBN: 0735217718
• Manufacturer: Riverhead Books

Mrs. Kennedy and Me

The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir by Clint Hill that Kirkus Reviews called “clear and honest prose free from salaciousness and gossip,” Jackie Kennedy’s personal Secret Service agent details his very close relationship with the First Lady during the four years leading up to and following President John F. Kennedy’s tragic assassination.In those four years, Hill was by Mrs. Kennedy’s side for some of the happiest moments as well as the darkest. He was there for the birth of John, Jr. on November 25, 1960, as well as for the birth and sudden death of Patrick Bouvier Kennedy on A... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1451648464
• ASIN: 1451648464
• ISBN: 1451648464
• Brand: Gallery Books
• Manufacturer: Gallery Books

The Business of Being a Writer (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)

Writers talk about their work in many ways: as an art, as a calling, as a lifestyle. Too often missing from these conversations is the fact that writing is also a business. The reality is, those who want to make a full- or part-time job out of writing are going to have a more positive and productive career if they understand the basic business principles underlying the industry. The Business of Being a Writer offers the business education writers need but so rarely receive. It is meant for early-career writers looking to develop a realistic set of expectations about making money from their wo... [Read More]

• ASIN: 022639316X
• ASIN: 022639316X
• ISBN: 022639316X
• Manufacturer: University of Chicago Press

The Millionaire Real Estate Agent: Its Not About the Money...Its About Being the Best You Can Be!

Teaches how to develop financial intelligence and master the mental and emotional sides of investment, and presents the path, model, and systems for building a successful real estate investment

• UPC: 2617085
• Rating: 5.0

Foreign Agent : A Thriller

In a safe house near the Syrian border, a clandestine American operations team readies to launch a dramatic mission months in the making. Their target: the director of social media for ISIS, Abu Muslim al-Naser.

• UPC: 55518798
• Rating: 3.667

Agents of Light and Darkness

Working in Nightside, the dark underworld beneath the streets of London, John Taylor, gifted with the ability of finding things that are lost, is determined to locate The Unholy Grail--the cup, rife with power and

• UPC: 2360057
• Rating: 3.885

Jeff Herman's Guide to Book Publishers, Editors & Literary Agents, 28th Edition : Who They Are, What They Want, How to Win Them Over

Up-to-the-minute insider information on getting published from the scrupulously updated resource that has been unequaled for 20

• UPC: 168969234
• Rating: 2.667

Guide to Literary Agents 2019 : The Most Trusted Guide to Getting Published

9781440354380

• UPC: 962429934

The Secret Agent - eBook

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timeThe Secret Agent is the unsurpassed ancestor of a long series of twentieth-century novels and films which explore the confused motives

• UPC: 300625318
• Rating: 3.526

Agent 6

THREE DECADES.TWO MURDERS.ONE CONSPIRACY. WHO IS AGENT 6?Tom Rob Smith's debut, Child 44, was an immediate publishing sensation and marked the arrival of a major new talent in contemporary fiction. Named one of top 100

• UPC: 20931169
• Rating: 3.679

The Secret Agent (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)

9781593083052

• UPC: 55214911
• Rating: 3.526

The Secret Agent (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading) - eBook

In an era not unlike our own, in which menacing acts have become commonplace, Russian spymaster Vladimir seeks to undermine England’s “sentimental regard for liberty.” His challenge is how to rouse the indignation of a

• UPC: 320086958
• Rating: 3.526

Agent in Place

The Gray Man is back in another nonstop international thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan novels. Fresh off his first mission back with the CIA, Court Gentry

• UPC: 281780530