Rita Rosenkranz Literary Agency

Updated November 11, 2009

 Rita Rosenkranz founded Rita Rosenkranz Literary Agency in 1990 after a career as an editor with major New York houses. She represents health, history, parenting, music, how-to, popular science, business, biography, sports, popular reference, cooking, writing, spirituality, and general interest titles. Rita works with major publishing houses, as well as regional publishers that handle niche markets. She looks for projects that present familiar subjects freshly or lesser-known subjects presented commercially.Her adult non-fiction list stretches from the decorative–FLOWERS, WHITE HOUSE STYLE: More Than 125 Arrangements by the Former White House Chief Floral Decorator by Dottie Temple and Stan Finegold (Simon & Schuster) to the dark–SAVING BEAUTY FROM THE BEAST: How to Protect Your Daughter from an Unhealthy Relationship by Vicki Crompton and Ellen Zelda Kessner (Little, Brown; Books for a Better Life Award, 2003).

 

 

 

We represent:

Health, history, parenting, music, how-to, popular science, business, biography, sports, popular reference, cooking, writing, spirituality, general interest

We do not represent:

Submission Guidelines

 Please send query letter via regular mail with SASE, or via e-mail. If requested, send proposal as a single Word doc attachment labeled the name of your book project. (Please do not send multiple, generically labeled attachments.)The agency does not accept submissions for screenplays, poetry, fiction, children’s or YA books.You should receive a response within two weeks.

Queries should be addressed to:

Rita Rosenkranz Literary Agency
440 West End Avenue, #15D
New York, NY  10024-5358
T: 212-873-6333
E: rrosenkranz (at) mindspring (dot) com

 

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