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7 Insider Secrets to Get a Top Agent, Publisher, and Book Deal
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Literary Agent Directory
Important: Visit each agent’s website (links in their listings below) to see if they’re open to submissions before querying.
Jennifer Simpson
Biography
Jennifer Simpson is a literary agent with CAA/ICM. Based in the New York office, she focuses on domestic subsidiary rights, including audio, magazine and newspaper journalism, first serial rights, and podcasting.Simpson began her career at ICM Partners as an assistant in the Publishing department. She was promoted to Agent in 2021, where she handled domestic subsidiary rights, with an emphasis on audiobook, podcast, and first serial rights. She has negotiated and sold rights on behalf of prize-winning and bestselling authors and journalists. She recently joined CAA after living overseas, where she began building her list and cultivating her taste as a Literary Agent at Paper Literary.She graduated from Duke University and is also a graduate of Columbia UniversityÕs Publishing Course in Oxford.
Notes
FICTION: Chick Lit, Commercial Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, Family Saga, Fiction, Humor Fiction, Romance, Thriller, Upmarket Fiction, Women’s FictionNONFICTION: Cookbook Cooking, Dating Relationships Sex, Family, Food Drink, Health Wellness, Nonfiction, Science