Aspiring authors routinely ask me to recommend an agent. This is more difficult than you might think. For starters, we work with numerous agents and enjoy good relationships with all of them.
Second, it’s often just as difficult to find an agent as a publisher. Many agents are not accepting clients. However, if your project is good and you are persistent, you will eventually find one.
Rather than recommend a specific agent, I hoped to be able to point authors to a list of agents on the Internet. However, I couldn’t find a list that represent Christian authors. Bummer. So, with the help of Vicki, my assistant, I compiled one.
This may not be all the agents that could be listed, but these are the forty or so we work with at Thomas Nelson. While all of them represent Christian authors, they themselves may not necessarily be Christians or represent exclusively Christian authors. If you want to check out an agent or get the opinions of other writers, you might visit ChristianWriters.com or The Absolute Writer Water Cooler, two discussion forums for authors.
Regardless, this list does not constitute my recommendation. It is your responsibility to check references and ascertain whether or not a specific agent is right for you.
Keep in mind that agents typically charge a 15 percent commission. This is standard in the industry. However, you shouldn’t have to pay them until they actually sell your book to a publisher.
Note: If you are one of the agents listed below and want your information edited or removed, please send me an email. If you want to be added to the list, send me an email with your contact information and the names of at least three of your clients who have been published. (I don’t want to list inexperienced agents.)
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| Maurilio Amorim Amorim Agency 112 Westwood Place suite 110 Brentwood TN 37027 Website | Email |
| Matt Bialer Sanford J. Greenburger Associates 55 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10003 Website | Email |
| Bruce Barbour Literary Management Group 4238 Morriswood Drive Nashville, TN 37204 Website | Email |
| Jenni Burke D.C. Jacobson & Associates, LLC P.O. Box 1965 Sisters, Oregon 97759 Website | Email |
| Mary Chappell Zachary Shuster Harmsworth 535 Boylston Street, Suite 1103 Boston, MA 02116 Website | Email |
| Rick Christian Alive Communications 7680 Goddard St., Suite 200 Colorado Springs, CO 80920 Website | Email |
| Jonathan Clements Wheelhouse Literary Group 1007 Loxley Drive Nashville TN 37211 Website | Email |
| Chaz Corzine The MWS Group 321 Billingsly Court, Unit 15 Franklin, TN 37067 Website | Email |
| Claudia Cross Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc. 65 Bleecker Street New York, NY 10012 Website | Email |
| Blythe McIntosh Daniel The Blythe Daniel Agency, Inc. P.O. Box 64197 Colorado Springs, CO 80962 Website | Email |
| Greg Daniel Daniel Literary Group 1701 Kingsbury Drive, Suite 100 Nashville, TN 37215 Website | Email |
| Jan Dennis Dennis Literary 19350 Glen Hollow Circle Monument, CO 80132 Website | Email |
| David Dunham The Dunham Group 2000 Mallory Lane, Suite 130–228 Franklin, TN 37067 Website | Email |
| John Eames Eames Literary Services, LLC 4117 Hillsboro Pike, Box 103–241 Nashville, TN 37215 Website | Email |
| Danielle Egan-Miller Browne & Miller Literary Associates 410 S. Michigan Avenue, Suite 460 Chicago, IL 60605 Website | Email |
| Gary Foster Gary D Foster Consulting 733 Viginia Ave Van Wert, OH, 45891 Website | Email |
| Rachelle Gardner WordServe Literary Group P.O. Box 1089 Monument, CO 80132 Website | Email |
| Jennifer Gates Zachary Schuster Harmsworth, A Literary & Entertainment Agency 1776 Broadway, Suite 1405 New York, NY 10019 Website | Email |
| Joel Gotler Intellectual Property Group 9200 Sunset Blvd. Suite 820 Los Angeles, CA 90069 Website | Email |
| Karen Schreck C. Grant & Company 207 Reber Street, Suite 100 Wheaton, IL 60187 Website | Email |
| Steve Green Anvil II Management 12175 Network Boulevard, Suite 150 San Antonio, TX 78249 Website | Email |
| Joyce Hart Hartline Literary 123 Queenston Drive Pittsburgh PA 15235 Website | Email |
| Judy Hilsinger Heartfelt Books & Films, Inc. 6100 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1660 Los Angeles, CA 90048 Website | Email |
| Lee Hough Alive Communications 7680 Goddard St. Suite 200 Colorado Springs, CO 80920 Website | Email |
| Don Jacobson D.C. Jacobson & Associates, LLC P.O. Box 1965 Sisters, Oregon 97759 Website | Email |
| Nancy Jernigan Hidden Value Group 1240 E. Ontario Ave., Ste. #102-148 Corona, CA 92881 Website | Email |
| Greg Johnson WordServe Literary Group 10152 S. Knoll Circle Highlands Ranch, CO 80130 Website | Email |
| Beth Jusino Alive Communications 7680 Goddard Street, Suite 200 Colorado Springs, CO 80920 Website | Email |
| Natasha Kern Natasha Kern Literary Agency P.O. Box 1069 White Salmon, WA 98672 Website | Email |
| Joel Kneedler Alive Communications 7680 Goddard St., Suite 200 Colorado Springs, CO 80920 Website | Email |
| Deidre Knight The Knight Agency 570 East Avenue Madison, GA 30650 Website | Email |
| Janet Kobobel-Grant Books & Such Literary Agency 52 Mission Circle, Suite 122, PMB 170 Santa Rosa, CA 95409-5370 Website | Email |
| Steve Laube The Steve Laube Agency 5025 N. Central Avenue, #635 Phoenix, AZ 85012–1502 Website | Email |
| Wendy Lawton Books & Such Literary Agency Central Valley Office Post Office Box 1227 Hilmar, CA 95324 Website | Email |
| Shannon Litton Amorim Agency 112 Westwood Place suite 110 Brentwood TN 37027 Website | Email |
| Chip MacGregor MacGregor Literary 2373 NW 185th Avenue, #165 Hillsboro, OR 97124 Website | Email |
| Jan Miller Dupree, Miller & Associates 100 Highland Park Village, Suite 350 Dallas, TX 75205 Website | Email |
| Kelly Gottuso Mortimer Mortimer Literary Agency 52645 Paui Road Aguanga, CA 92536 Website | Email |
| Tamela Hancock Murray Hartline Literary 10383 Godwin Drive Manassas, VA 20110–2740 Website | Email |
| Leslie Nunn-Reed Nunn Communications 1612 Ginger Drive Carrollton, TX 75007 Website | Email |
| Bill Reeves Working Title Agency 2948 Augusta Trace Drive Spring Hill, TN 37174 Website | Email |
| David Robie Big Score Productions 1986 Pickering Trail Lancaster, PA 17601 Website | Email |
| Richard “Bucky” Rosenbaum Rosenbaum & Associates Literary Agency P.O. Box 277 Brentwood, TN 37024-0277 Website | Email |
| David Sanford Credo Communications, Inc. 3148 Plainfield Ave NE, Ste 111 Grand Rapids, MI 49525-3285 Website | Email |
| David Shepherd The DRS Agency 317 Main Street/Suite 207 Franklin, Tennessee 37064 Website | Email |
| Karen Solem P.O. Box 374 24 Park Row Chatham, NY 12037 Website | Email |
| Les Stobbe Literary Agent 300 Doubleday Road Tryon, NC 28782 Website | Email |
| Mark Sweeney Mark Sweeney & Associates 28540 Altessa Way, Suite 201 Bonita Springs, FL 34135 Website | Email |
| David Van Diest Van Diest Literary Agency P.O. Box 1482 Sisters, OR 97759 Website | Email |
| David Vigliano Vigliano & Associates 405 Park Avenue, Suite 1700 New York,, NY 10022 Website | Email |
| Frank Weimann The Literary Group International The Stanford Building 51 East 25th Street, Suite 401 New York, NY 10010 Website | Email |
| Etta Wilson Books & Such Literary Agency 1114 Oman Drive Brentwood, TN 37027 Website | Email |
| Thomas J. Winters Winters & King, Inc. 2448 East 81st Street, Suite 5900 Tulsa, OK 74137-4259 Website | Email |
| Andrew Wolgemuth Wolgemuth & Associates 8600 Crestgate Circle Orlando, FL 32819 Website | Email |
| Erik Wolgemuth Wolgemuth & Associates 8600 Crestgate Circle Orlando, FL 32819 Website | Email |
| Robert Wolgemuth Wolgemuth & Associates 8600 Crestgate Circle Orlando, FL 32819 Website | Email |
| Wes Yoder Ambassador Agency P.O. Box 50358 Nashville, TN 37205 Website | Email |
| Marian Young The Young Agency 156 Fifth Avenue Suite 617 New York, NY 10010 Website | Email |
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I’m sixteen and I’ve written several novels I would like to have published. It’s a goal of mine to become a published author. I am on the look for the right agency for me. Have any advice? God bless you and your company, Gelina
Michael,
I’ve completed and copyrighted the manuscript “The Spear of Longinus.”
I’m looking for a Christian Agent who has dealt with Historical fiction.
I would sincerely appreciate any suggestions.
Ron
Sorry to be a late poster Michael but I've just discovered your blog. I'm writing Christian teen fiction (two fully completed manuscripts and more on the way) but I'm born, bred and living in the UK. All the agents you listed are in the US as indeed is most of the Christian publishing industry and the networking opportunities that can yield that key opening. Can you offer any suggestions for those of us across the pond?
Mr. Hyatt,
I have just finished my first novel and am looking into publishing, but have found that everything says unsolicited manuscripts are not accepted. What on earth does this mean exactly?? No one really gives a description of what a solicited manuscript is. Can you please help me out here?
Kaylee Nebe
Thank you, Michael, for taking your time to help those of us who are trying to get our work published. The list of agents is much appreciated.
Michael,
Thanks so much for posting this list, this is such a blessing. As a self published author of We Are Expecting!, a unique keepsake prayer journal for expecting parents, I will use this list to contact some Christian agents to represent me. My book is getting a lot of buzz and media attention here in Atlanta and is selling very well online, so I believe that it's time to take it to the next step and that is to find a publisher. Thank you very much for this…I will keep you posted.
Zuaquis Ross, author of We Are Expecting!
http://www.WeAreExpecting.com
Thanks Mike, you're awesome!
One question: should I contact multiple agents at once in the hope that one of the many I contact will respond or do I go for one at a time? Which would the agents think is a better thing for me to do?
Michael
Please correct my Agent Listing website URL to http://www.bigscoreproductions.com. Currently you are pointing to my antique book site.
Thanks
David Robie
It is pointing to bigscoreproductions.com. What am I missing? You might want to email me at michael [dot] hyatt [at] gmail [dot] com.
Thanks so much for the list of agents representing christian fiction. I paid 30 dollars for a huge book of agents, but it only listed three christian ones. Thanks again!
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This is VERY helpful. Thanks Michael!
Hi Michael,
Thank you for helping us Christian authors learn more about the literary business!
P.S. Keep asking, "What's the most helpful and simplest way that works?"
I've been following your blog for about 8 months since I heard you on the radio teaching history.
Just now, I finally read this list of literary agents. I started scrolling through it and made a quick assessment that there are very few west coast-based agents. Then I noticed three Wolgemuths in a row, and experienced this immediate flashback. You're THAT Hyatt! I've known your last name from the spines in my library for almost twenty years!
I think my friends and I kept your former company in business (at least for a while). I'm enjoying discovering your stuff NOW, but to my pleasant surprise, you've been hitting me with good material ever since my formative years!
Hero worship? Not quite. I don't want your head to swell. (I'd have to accept responsibility if it did, and I'm not prepared to do that.)
I just want to let you know that I'm grateful. Carry on.
Jeffrey, indeed, I am THAT Hyatt. Thanks for your kind words!
resources on your site are very helpful for those who dare to write and make impact.God bless you!
Thank you for this list
This is an awesome compilation. Thanks, Mike for putting this together. I'm putting a link to this on my websites so others can find this. .
Donald James Parker
Author of Love Waits
Yes thank you Mike this and the whole of your website is so useful and a valuable tool for writers, especially myself and the few authors I am working with. Thank you
Mike: Thanks for the list…very kind of you to make this available. Are Christian writers limited to Christian-genre agents?
karim Shamsi-Basha
Hi there,
Do you have a list of agents residing in Australia or could you advise how best to get a book published here?
Thanks in anticipation.
Rex.
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If the site doesn't say they're Chrstian, will they even look at my manuscript?
I am looking for an agent that specializes in Christian children's books? Any suggestions from the list or otherwise?
Thanks
Dear Michelle,
I am too!
Keep in touch and I’ll do like wise if I find something.
Best Wishes,
Loy Ray Clemons
WOW & Thank you. This is such a blessing. May God bless you for what you have done to help others who are working for the Kingdom of God. How awesome!