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.

Attachments will not be opened unless specifically requested. We only accept email queries. We do not accept queries by snail mail or phone. All snail mail queries will be discarded unopened

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 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 list them all and ask us to pick one. 

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

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.

Each agent sets their own guidelines, 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.

We have a strict NO MULTIPLE SUBMISSIONS policy, so please be sure to only submit to one of us. A rejection from one agent represents a rejection from the entire agency. 

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 will most likely be deleted without a response.

Simultaneous submissions to other agencies are expected.

** We do NOT represent screenplays, short story collection or poetry.

GENERAL SUBMISSIONS

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

submissions@lperkinsagency.com