As an independent literary agent, Deborah Carter focuses on manuscript development, the sale & administration of print, performance & foreign rights to literary works, and post-publication publicity and appearances.

 

Looking for stories with compelling voices and a unique  outlook. 

 

 

Muse Literary Management

189 Waverly Place, #4

New York, NY  10014-3135

(212) 925-3721

MuseLiteraryMgmt@aol.com

 

Actively pursuing new writers with formal training and published authors who want to try something new.  Those who submit should be receptive to editorial feedback and willing to revise to be competitive. Writers are encouraged to read Publishers Weekly to develop an awareness of the marketplace and bookselling categories for their book.

*See interview with Writer’s Digest editor Chuck Sambuchino.

 

One-year contract.  Commission is standard 15% domestic, 20% foreign and subrights.  No reading or editorial fees.  All expenses (postage and photocopying, if any) are pre-approved by the client. Although not a member of the AAR, Ms. Carter follows their canon of ethics.

Listed in the Literary Market Place, Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook, Writer’s Digest guides and SCBWI's Agents Directory.

Member:  AWP, NAWE, International Thriller Writers, Crime Writers’ Association, Historical Novel Society, Association of Booksellers for Children, The Authors Guild and National Writers Union.

 

Prior to starting her own agency in 1998, Ms. Carter trained with an AAR literary agent, and worked in the music business as a talent scout and in artist management.  She holds a BA in English and music from Washington Square University College at NYU.

Areas of interest

· literary novels and short story and poetry collections with popular appeal *

· mysteries/thrillers/suspense novels with literary merit that are not derivative

· espionage fiction/nonfiction

· literary narrative nonfiction by writers with formal training *

· nonfiction topics: music, writing, birds, gardening

· children's fiction/nonfiction that offers something new in its category

 

NOTE exclusions in all areas: romance, chick lit, sci-fi, fantasy with unmotivated events, horror, vampire or serial killer stories, religion, spirituality, fiction that’s derivative, blogs, journals or epistolary novels.

“We read Jane Austen to see how to 

  manage a novel behind a desk. ”

— Martin Amis at AWP, on teaching at University of Manchester