Please be assured that we are NOT Vanity Publishers. We are NOT an Editorial Service. The ONLY function of e-LiteraryAgent is to represent you—the author—in the publishing marketplace and to provide an efficient way to reach the editors who would be interested in publishing your manuscript.

The principals of e-Literary Agent have more than 65 years of combined publishing experience. We have, through our separate book packaging company, placed hundreds of books with many of the major publishers in the industry, and have successfully represented close to 1,000 authors.

As you probably know, most publishers are reluctant to look at unsolicited manuscripts, and prefer to deal with agents. However, since agents typically receive about 15% of the author’s royalties, agents, too, are reluctant to sign newcomers. They prefer the “blockbuster” authors who can demand million dollar advances. These types of books are very few and far between.

However, with e-Literary Agent, you can reach hundreds of editors at any one time, there is no paperwork going back and forth, and we can approach editors throughout the world with one email. It saves everyone time and money—and they can read your manuscript directly on-line, or print it out and read it at their leisure.

Because this is a highly competitive business, we recommend that you take the time to run your manuscript through a spell check. And if you have the time and money, find a professional editor to help improve the appeal and readability of your work. They can be found in various writer’s publications, or you can even ask writing professors at a local university. In non-fiction works, facts should be checked, recipes in cookbooks should be tested, and so on. You should put your best foot forward!

Our potential authors may be previously published or first-time authors. Submitted manuscripts should be at least 100 pages long, although we prefer completed manuscripts. It can be submitted to us either on disk or CD along with your Author's Form, or you may send it as an email attachment once you've mailed back the form.

1. An overview of your book, including genre, approximate number of manuscript pages, and a Table of Contents, if appropriate. (Sorry, we don’t accept poetry or pornography.)
2. Your manuscript on disk or CD-ROM. While we prefer a completed manuscript, we will also accept it if you can provide at least 100 pages. If there is artwork, we would like samples. (We would prefer not to receive e-mailed attachments, please.)
3. A completed Author’s Information Form.
4. A signed contract authorizing e-LiteraryAgent to serve as your literary agent for a period of one year.

For the complete Author’s Information Form, please click here.

Your manuscript (and accompanying information) will be posted on our web site ($195 to be listed for an entire year) within a month of receipt of the necessary materials. This site will be available to the appropriate editors throughout the world, who will contact us directly if they are interested in your book. You will be notified immediately if someone is interested, and if your book is sold, we will negotiate your publishing contract (terms must meet with your approval, of course) to obtain the best possible arrangement for publication. We will also negotiate all subrights, including movie and other electronic rights, hardcover and paperback editions, foreign rights, and so on. e-LiteraryAgent is your literary agency.

We will be listing a portion of your manuscript for one year, and at the end of that year, if your book has not been sold (or negotiations not begun), you will have the option to renew this arrangement. Your manuscript will then be archived by genre, still available for viewing by interested editors.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact us. Otherwise, fill in the forms, include your payment (check, money order, or credit card), and we will have you up and running within the month.

We look forward to working with you and hope for a successful publishing experience.

Fred N. Grayson, President