Welcome to Tessler Literary Agency. We represent a select number of best-selling and emerging authors.
Based in the Flatiron District of Manhattan, we work with authors of high quality non-fiction and literary and commercial fiction. Our clients include accomplished journalists, scientists, academics, experts in their fields, and debut writers and novelists with unique voices and stories to tell.
Our list is diverse and far-reaching. In non-fiction, it includes popular science, reportage, memoir, history, biography, psychology, business and travel — and in many cases, we sign authors who are especially adept at writing books that cross many of these categories at once. In fiction, we handle literary, women’s, and commercial. We do not handle genre fiction or children’s books.
We are known for building careers and working closely with our authors at every stage of the publishing process — from conceptualizing the initial idea, to offering editorial feedback before submission, to aggressively negotiating the contract, to selling film and translation rights, to helping conceive of effective publicity and marketing strategies so that the book has the best chance of reaching a large readership.