Thank you for seeking us out, and for considering The Book Group as a place to send your work.
Here are our submission guidelines:
When you’re ready to send us your submission, please email a query letter and 10 sample pages to submissions@thebookgroup.com. You will receive a bounce back to your query, which you should consider receipt of your work. Please include all materials in the body of the email, as we can’t open attachments. We only accept electronic queries sent to submissions@thebookgroup.com, and do not accept paper queries or queries by phone.
Please include the name of the agent to whom you are submitting in the subject line of your query email.
To learn more about what each agent at The Book Group is looking for, please visit the “Staff” section of our website. You are welcome to submit to more than one agent at once at The Book Group; please let us know that you’ve submitted to multiple agents on our team in the body of your query letter. While we represent a broad range of fiction and nonfiction, we do not represent theatrical work, or screenplays. If you are an artist submitting a book dummy or a portfolio, please include a link to the dummy and to your website or portfolio. And picture book authors, please note: Brenda Bowen is not able to accept picture book text submissions at this time.
If we would like to read more of your work, we’ll be in touch as soon as possible. We are not able to respond personally to everyone who sends their material to us, much as we would like to. If you don’t hear from us within three months, it means we feel we’re not the right fit for your work.
Finally, we understand that you’ll likely be submitting your work to more than one agency at a time. If you receive an offer of representation from another agency, we’d be grateful if you would let us know by sending a follow up email with “offer of representation” in the subject line.
Thank you again for trusting us with your work.
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For inquiries not related to representation, please email info@thebookgroup.com