Castiglia Literary Agency

Del Mar, Ca.

 

 

 

 

 

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Submissions


We do not look at unsolicited material.  However we do accept one-page queries by email.

 

The query is important, because it introduces you to us.  It needs to be professionally presented, written with some originality, and include a brief description or synopsis with background or short bio of the author.

 

If we wish to see more, we will request that you send us either the proposal, or sample chapters by email.

 

If you send a query by regular mail, please send only a couple of pages in a regular sized envelope, with a SASE for response. Sending a couple of pages in an oversized mailer, wastes paper and postage. 

 

Please do not send separate queries to all agents. Send to the agent most suited for your particular project:

 

Win Golden

Commercial/literary fiction, current events/politics, journalism, pop culture, biography, memoir, science, narrative non-fiction (by referral)

 

Sally van Haitsma

Commercial/literary fiction, pop culture, business, how-to, science, narrative non-fiction

 

Deborah Ritchken

Narrative non-fiction, memoir, biography, literary fiction

 

Our preferences: 

 

NONFICTION
We'd particularly like to hear from you if you are a journalist or published writer in magazines and newspapers, have expertise on the subject you're writing, together with media exposure and/or a speaking schedule.
 

FICTION

We'd like to hear from anyone who has had success with a previous novel.   We do look at debut novels and it helps if you've been published in literary anthologies or magazines, if you have studied under well-known authors, or have an MFA.  It's all about the writing of course but if great writing is accompanied by a marketing hook, that's a seductive combination.

 

 

 

 

Castiglia Literary Agency

1155 Camino del Mar, Suite 510, Del Mar, CA 92014

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