Cookbooks, food writing, academic books about foodways, narrative-nonfiction on food history, and unique debut cookbooks. Also looking for literary true crime.
Unsolicited MG & YA, memoir, history, narrative nonfiction (referral only).
Lauren MacLeod is a Nashville-based senior literary agent with Aevitas Creative Management. Her primary interests are cookbooks, food writing, narrative nonfiction, pop-culture, true crime, memoir, young adult fiction and nonfiction, and middle-grade novels. She serves on the Association of American Literary Agents board of directors, where she sits on the copyright and contracts committees and co-chairs the communications committee. Before joining ACM, she was Vice President of The Strothman Agency.
Submissions should be emailed to https://querymanager.com/query/Lmacleod At this time I am only accepting submissions for food writing, cookbooks, pop-culture and true crime. I currently only consider MG & YA, memoir, history, and narrative nonfiction via referral.
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