2018 Agents & Editors

Lori Gavin / Aevitas Creative Management   Lori Galvin is an agent with Aevitas Creative Management. Prior to agenting, Galvin was an editor at America’s Test Kitchen and Houghton Mifflin. Her book deals include Cambria Brockman’s debut thriller Tell Me Everything (to Ballantine; Netflix has optioned film rights) and Holly Watt’s debut thriller To the…

Julie Gwinn/The Seymour Agency Julie Gwinn, currently a literary agent with The Seymour Agency, has more than 25 years marketing experience and was also Fiction Publisher for B&H Publishing Group for almost a decade. Julie feels agenting is a culmination of her past experiences. She is currently looking to acquire cozy mystery, mystery, suspense and…

Sandy Lu / L. Perkins Agency Sandy Lu joind L. Perkins Agency in 2009.  She holds BAs in psychology and sociology from Queens College, with minors in music, business, and Japanese.  Prior to becoming an agent, she attended the Ph.D. Program in Social and Personality Psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center and worked as a…

Jess Dallow / Brower Literary Jess Dallow, an associate agent at Brower Literary and Management, is looking for YA and adult thrillers, mysteries, and suspense novels. She would love to find a manuscript that has a child psychopath or serial killer.   She’d also love a domestic suspense novel that keeps her turning the pages…

Gary Goldstein / Kensington Publishing Gary Goldstein started his editorial career at Crown Publishing in 1986. He spent two years at Bantam Doubleday Dell (which then became Bertelsmann AG and is now Penguin Random House) from 1988-1990. He joined Putnam Berkley Publishing in May 1990. Following his stint at Berkley, in 1997 he moved on…

Jill Marr / Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency Jill Marr is an agent at the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency. She graduated from San Diego State University with a BA in English with an emphasis in creative writing and a minor in history. She has a strong media background and over 15 years of publishing experience. She…

Misty Williams / Fiery Seas Publishing Misty Williams founded Fiery Seas Publishing in 2014. She has over ten years experience from writing to marketing and publicity to editorial. She now uses the things she has learned over the years to help build the companies growing number of authors. Misty is always looking for a great…

Melissa Edwards / Stonesong Literary Agency Melissa Edwards joined Stonesong as a literary agent in August 2016. Previously, she was a literary agent at the Aaron Priest Literary Agency, where she managed the foreign rights for a 40-year backlist. After graduating from Washington University in St. Louis and Vanderbilt Law School, Melissa began her career as…

Nikki Terpilowski / Holloway Literary Nikki Terpilowski is the owner and senior agent at Holloway Literary. Based in Raleigh, NC and established in 2011, Holloway Literary is a full-service agency that represents writers in romance, women’s, southern fiction, mystery, thriller, historical, literary, science fiction, young adult and non-fiction. After receiving a B.A. in English from…

Claire Harris / Foundry Literary + Media Claire Harris joined the Foundry Literary + Media team after completing the NYU Summer Publishing Course in 2015. While she graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a B.A. in English, she’s originally from Wisconsin and will always be a Midwesterner at heart. She’s primarily interested…