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Gay YA Agent Spotlight! #3 – Brent Taylor

By Katie|2020-03-28T13:40:30-05:00October 20th, 2016|Categories: Publishing People|Tags: agent interview, agent spotlight, brent taylor, querying, upcoming trends|

Today on our Agent Spotlight series we have Brent Taylor from Triada US Literary Agency! Brent's got some serious storytelling power all of his own in this interview! 1. Hello! Thank you for participating in our Agent Spotlight series! We're excited to have you. Can you tell us how you got started agenting? Hello! Thank you for doing this wonderful series and for having me. I started interning for literary agents in 2011 and spent about three years soaking up as much information about the industry as I could. In the summer of 2014, I joined Triada US [...]

Gay YA Agent Spotlight! #2 – Jim McCarthy

By Katie|2020-03-28T13:40:30-05:00October 13th, 2016|Categories: Archive, Publishing People|Tags: agent interview, agent spotlight, interview, jim mccarthy, querying, upcoming trends|

Welcome to our new series, Gay YA Agent Spotlight! Every Thursday, we'll be interviewing one agent about upcoming trends in LGBTQIA+ YA and MG, what they currently represent, and what they're looking for. 1. Hello! Thank you for participating in our Agent Spotlight series! We're excited to have you. Can you tell us how you got started agenting? Mine’s a bit of an unusual story. I had completed my freshman year at NYU and already blown through all the money I had saved for college (NYC is EXPENSIVE), so I needed a job stat. I sent out 40 [...]

Gay YA Agent Spotlight! #1: Jennifer Johnson-Blalock

By Katie|2020-03-28T13:40:30-05:00October 6th, 2016|Categories: Publishing People|Tags: agent interview, agent spotlight, interview, querying, upcoming trends|

Hello, friends! Welcome to a new feature here at GayYA! Every Thursday for the next couple of months, we'll have an interview with an agent about LGBTQIA+ books they're reading, ones they rep, what they want in their inbox, and where they see LGBTQIA+ YA and MG going in the next few years. I'm THRILLED to kick off this interview series with Jennifer Johnson-Blalock with Liza Dawson Associates. Jennifer Johnson-Blalock, agent with Liza Dawson Associates 1. Hi, Jennifer! Thank you for participating in our Agent Spotlight series! We're excited to have you. Can you tell us [...]