Updated November 1, 2009
| Irene Goodman has been a leading member of the publishing community for over 25 years. Her clients are regulars on the New York Times, USA Today, Walden, Publishers Weekly, and Bookscan bestseller lists. She began her career as the assistant to the agent who represented Stephen King, and established her own agency a year later. Her non-fiction list includes memoir, narrative history, music, social issues and commentary, animals, parenting, food, Judaica, Anglophilia, Francophilia, crafts, and lifestyle. Her fiction list includes historical fiction, women’s fiction, thrillers, literary fiction, and mysteries. Together with her dynamic staff, her agency represents over 80 authors in these fields. Deals range from five to seven figures.Irene is the creator of the “power summit meeting”, a highly effective day in which all the key people in the author’s professional life get together in one room to focus on the author’s career. This technique enhances and accelerates the author’s growth beyond the sum of its parts. It allows everyone to invest in the author’s vision, and functions like a shot of adrenaline to the team.
Irene has written columns and articles for a number of writers’ publications, including the Novelists Ink newsletter, the Mystery Writers of America newsletter, Solander (the newsletter of the Historical Novelists Society), the Romance Writers of America newsletter, and many regional publications. She is also a frequent speaker at writer’s conferences, including keynoting at the Historical Novelists Society and Novelists Ink., and workshops at the Romance Writers of America, the Surrey International Writers Conference, the Pacific Northwest Writers Conference, legal fiction conferences, and Malice Domestic. Originally from the Midwest, Irene has a B.A. and a master’s degree from the University of Michigan. She divides her time between New York and the Berkshires. Her personal passions include opera, Doonesbury, Mark Twain, theatre, and children. |
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Submission Guidelines |
If you have a manuscript that you would like to send us, please first ask yourself the following questions:
If you can answer yes to all of the above, then please do the following: Send a query letter and the first ten pages, along with a detailed synopsis of the entire book, in the body of an email to queries@irenegoodman.com. Because of the high volume of email submissions we receive, we will only respond to your query if we are interested in seeing more. When your query arrives in our inbox, you will receive an automated response letting you know that we have received your query. PLEASE DO NOT CALL TO FOLLOW UP. If we are interested in your work, we will contact you and ask to see the entire manuscript. We are genuinely sorry that we cannot respond to every query. E-mail queries to our personal addresses will be automatically deleted. All submissions should be sent by e-mail. We do not consider snail mail queries. We expect a professional presentation that fits basic industry standards. Please do not send anything other than the requested materials. If you send several chapters or a complete manuscript, we will have to delete it. Please do not submit your query to more than one of our agents.
Irene Goodman Literary Agency Please note that we prefer emailed submissions. |
