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NAME
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Jennifer Lyons
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AGENCY
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Jennifer Lyons Literary Agency, LLC
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AAR MEMBER
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Yes
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EMAIL
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jenniferhlyons@earthlink.net
Does not accept email queries.
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AGENCY WEB SITE
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http://www.jenniferlyonsliteraryagency.com
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FICTION GENRES
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Literary Fiction
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Science Fiction
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Mystery
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Commercial Fiction
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Fantasy
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Young Adult
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Children's
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Multi-Cultural
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Gay & Lesbian
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Middle Grade
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Graphic Novels
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NONFICTION GENRES
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History
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Biography
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Religion
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Science
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Multi-Cultural
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Cookbooks
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Memoirs
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Travel
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Adventure/True Story
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Spirituality
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Women's Issues
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Pop Culture
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Narrative
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Nature/Ecology
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Photography
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Journalism
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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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Travel, dance, and reading
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DOES NOT REPRESENT
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She does NOT represent romance
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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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FACTS/TIDBITS
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She is a contributing editor to FICTION and THE READING ROOM. She teaches the business of writing for Sarah Lawrence College . She received a Fulbright to Vienna, Austria.
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She is the daughter of the publisher Nick lyons who began as an editor at Crown and then founded The Lyons Press. Her brother is Tony Lyons, the founder of Skyhorse Publishers in New York.
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EDUCATION
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Sarah Lawrence College, BA
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Middlebury College, MA
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Fulbright to Vienna, Austria and Junior year in Oxford, England
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NEW DEALS
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Fiction
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Fantasy
Kelly Meding's WARDEN'S TRANCE, the first book in a new series in which adult children of the world's slaughtered heroes suddenly regain their lost superpowers after a mysterious, ten-year absence, only to face a fearful public, a leery government, and the villain responsible for the deaths of their parents, to Jennifer Heddle at Pocket, in a two book deal, by Jonathan Lyons at Lyons Literary (World English).
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PAST/PRESENT CLIENTS
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The Lie
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Fredrica Wagman
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Commercial Fiction
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Zoland Books; Original edition (April 7, 2009) |
The halting narrative of Ramona Smollens, a lonely, repressed, Rita Hayworth–worshipping 17-year-old Philadelphia girl circa the 1950s who meets a young man in the park one week after the death of her father and marries him shortly after.
View book at Amazon
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Here Comes Another Lesson: Stories
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Stephen O'Connor
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Short Stories
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Free Press; Original edition (August 3, 2010) |
A collection of stories -- one of which appeared in the New Yorker in June 2009 -- whose characters cannot live according to their own ideals as they yearn for love, often against fantastical, semi-apocalyptic backdrops whose strangeness only serves to make these lives more familiar, and deeply affecting
View book at Amazon
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LINKS
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http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/Steve/
This is the agency webpage on PublishersMarketplace
http://www.jrwf.org/news/Jennifer_Lyons.html
Interview with Jennifer Lyons by the James River Writers Community
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