The Barbara Casey Literary Agency was established in 1995 and, on a very select basis, I represent writers in the areas of both fiction and nonfiction for adults and children. I only work with traditional,
royalty-paying publishers, including independent publishers as well as major publishers. Anyone interested in this service should query The Barbara Casey Literary Agency first before sending a manuscript for consideration.

I charge no up-front fees, and The Barbara Casey Literary Agency is conducted in accordance with the AAR (Association of Authors' Representatives) Guidelines and Canon of Ethics. Once the work is accepted for publication, I receive an agency commission of 15 percent of all royalties and/or flat payments (whichever the publisher and the writer/illustrator agree to in their contract).

Submissions

Send  an e-mail query that includes the title, word count, type of work (fiction or nonfiction; adult,
children's), brief synopsis, first chapter (if applicable), and author's biography.  If I am interested, I will request that the completed manuscript along with any marketing ideas you have for the project be e-mailed to me. All attachments should be sent in Microsoft Word document format.  Picture book illustrations should be sent
in .TIF or .PDF formats.
 

RECENTLY PLACED UNDER CONTRACT WITH PUBLISHERS
 

Title Author/Illustrator Represented Type of Book Publisher The Craige Ingram Mystery Series Hawk MacKinney Mystery/Thriller Wandering Sage Publishing Bluff John DeDakis Mystery/Suspense ArcheBooks Publishing Out of the Shadows MB Weston Science Fiction Wandering Sage Publishing Hail to the Cheat Ted Venetoulis Political Novel Wandering Sage Publishing The End of Christian America? David Aikman Nonfiction Baker Books

RECENTLY SIGNED WITH THE AGENCY
 

Title Author/Illustrator Represented Type of Book Saving Childhood John Monaco, MD Pediatric Surgeon Ricki Lake, co-author Actress Medical Nonfiction Celibacy’s Child Lisa Marie Overton Narrative Nonfiction Playing Beuregard’s Piano Theron  Montgomery Professor of Creative Writing and Contemporary Literature, Troy University Southern Fiction A Cruel Calm: Paris between the Wars Patricia Lipe President, PEN, Wasington, DC Fictionalized Nonfiction The Kevin Cooper Case J. Pat O’Connor Editor and Publisher, “Crime Magazine” True Crime Awakening in Iraq Ken Joseph Chairman Netv.com, Visiting Professor at Chiba University Director of the World Helpline Nonfiction Tell No Secrets David Aikman Print and Broadcast Journalist Foreign Affairs Commentator Proffesor of History, Patrick Henry College Political Thriller