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NAME
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Jennifer Laughran
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AGENCY
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Andrea Brown Literary Agency
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AAR MEMBER
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Yes
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EMAIL
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JennL@andreabrownlit.com
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AGENCY WEB SITE
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http://www.andreabrownlit.com/
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FICTION GENRES
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Young Adult
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Middle Grade
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NONFICTION GENRES
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CURRENT STATUS
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This agent accepts queries
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MORE INFORMATION
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SPECIAL INTERESTS
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She ONLY reps Children's Books.
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She is looking for YA and middle grade books; she enjoys realistic fiction, mystery, adventure and humor.
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She adores simplicity, but she is not interested in the conventional, predictable, mechanical, gimmicky or ordinary.
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DOES NOT REPRESENT
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At this time she is NOT looking for picture books or early readers.
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She doesn't care for high fantasy, religious stories, or stories about talking animals.
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She does NOT represent adult fiction or nonfiction.
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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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This agent accepts email queries only; you must put "QUERY" in subject line
- Please only query one agent at this agency; a "no" from one agent is a "no" from the entire agency
- Email/Young adult, middle grade, chapter book, early readers: query with first 10 pages pasted in the body of the email
- Email/all other genres: query only
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FACTS/TIDBITS
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EDUCATION
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NEW DEALS
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Young Adult
Miriam Forster's debut HOUSE OF A THOUSAND DOLLS, about a servant who lives on a sprawling estate where orphaned girls are groomed to be anything from assassins to courtesans; when a rash of mysterious deaths occur, she must find the killer or else be sold as a slave, to Harper Children's, in a two-book deal.
Middle Grade
Kristen Kittscher's WIG IN THE WINDOW, a mystery about the comic misadventures of two tween sleuths who suspect their school counselor is a dangerous criminal... and they just might be right, to Harper Children's.
Young Adult
Erin Lange's debut BUTTER, about a lonely 423-pound boy who decides to eat himself to death live on the Internet, and the bullies who become macabre cheerleaders for his plan, to Bloomsbury
Middle Grade
Jo Whittemore's D IN DRAMA, about a group of drama school losers who are perpetually cast as trees and nameless villagers, but hatch a plan to upend the status quo and create their own starring roles, to Aladdin.
Young Adult
Jackie Dolamore's MAGIC UNDER GLASS, in which a dance-hall girl discovers the spirit of a dashing fairy gentleman trapped inside a clockwork automaton, waiting for someone to break his curse, to Bloomsbury Children's, in a pre-empt, in a two-book deal.
Middle Grade
Kate Messner's EYE OF THE STORM, set in a dystopian world with killer tornadoes, corporations that profit from them, and a group of teens at an elite science camp who risk everything to expose their society's dark secrets and find a way to stop the storms, plus another standalone novel, to Walker.
Children's
Daniel Pinkwater's BOOK OF SHORT, VERY SHORT, AND RIDICULOUSLY SHORT STORIES: Jokes, Gags & Nonsense, with line illustrations by Jill Pinkwater, to Candlewick
Middle Grade
Kate Messner's MARTY MCGUIRE and MARTY MCGUIRE DIGS WORMS, two chapter books illustrated by Brian Floca, about a third-grade tomboy who would much rather be a scientist than a floofy pink ballerina; she is cast as the reluctant lead princess in the class play, with wildly unexpected and comic results, to Scholastic
Young Adult
Ilsa Bick's ASHES, which begins when an electromagnetic pulse sweeps through the sky, killing the vast majority of the world population and zapping every electronic device. Everyone still alive has changed considerably -- some for the better (those who acquired a superhuman sense) while others for the worse (those who acquired a taste for human flesh), to Egmont, in a significant deal.
Young Adult
Tiffany Trent's THE UNNATURALISTS, in which a privileged young Witch and an outcast Tinker with a price on his head must join forces to save their world from the black destruction of the Creeping Waste, to Simon & Schuster Children's.
Middle Grade
Gina Willner-Pardo's PRETTIEST DOLL, about a disenchanted 13-year-old beauty-pageant veteran, who, when she up and runs away from the fake eyelashes, singing lessons and her fame-obsessed mother, will have to rely on her own resourcefulness and courage to make it back in one piece, to Clarion.
Young Adult
Jaclyn Dolamore's DARK METROPOLIS, pitched as Cabaret meets Sabriel, about a city in which corruption and vice are rampant and disappearances warrant only a shrug from the authorities; when a girl vanishes, her best friend must search the city's underground, only to find that here, people who die don't necessarily stay dead, to Disney-Hyperion, at auction, in a six-figure deal, in a two-book deal.
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PAST/PRESENT CLIENTS
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LINKS
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http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/jennla/
This is her webpage on PublishersMarketplace
http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=115508
Jennifer Laughran answers questions on absolutewrite.com
http://literaticat.blogspot.com/
This is Jennifer Laughran's blog
http://twitter.com/#!/literaticat
This is Jennifer Laughran's twitter
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