The DSM Agency represents authors in
many categories of writing. From top-selling nonfiction like Jeffrey
Fox’s How to Become CEO, How to Become a Rainmaker,
and Don’t Send a Resume and Jason Kelly’s Neatest Little
Guides to making and managing money, to literary fiction like
In the River Sweet by Patricia Henley, we are always seeking
the very best work by some of the market’s most interesting writers.
We
do not charge a reading fee. Our commission schedule is standard
at 15 percent domestic.
The
DSM Agency's specialties are business and self-help books from
top professionals in their fields of expertise. We are also looking
for books in categories such as current affairs, narrative, biography
and memoir, lifestyle, self-help, social sciences, gender, history,
health, pop culture, classical music, sports, humor and women’s
issues. In the fiction camp, we are currently interested in representing
literary fiction that has commercial appeal and strong screen
potential. Go to our biography section
to find out more.
Unfortunately, we are
currently not interested in representing romance, coffee table
books, art books, trivia, westerns, occult and supernatural, horror,
poetry, textbooks, children’s books, picture books, film scripts,
articles, cartoons and professional manuals.
The best way for authors
to contact us is with a carefully-prepared query letter sent via
e-mail. Please be sure to read our submission
guidelines and Outline of the Publication
Process very carefully before you send your query. Good luck
in all of your writing.
