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What We Are Looking For Now
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Agent Profiles

About Words Agency is looking for commercial fiction and nonfiction.
The only categories we are NOT interested in representing are:
poetry, religious/Christian, or true-crime.

Although each agent will be taking a limited number of clients to better serve each author, About Words Agency will be actively growing its client base. Susan Graham, owner of About Words Agency, will be personally overseeing every single client every step of the way.

AGENT PROFILE: Susan L. Graham

Susan sold several books to large and small publishers in her five years in business by herself as Graham Literary Agency, Inc., including to HarperCollins and St. Martin's Press/Tor. She took a sabbatical to rethink the business in 1999, and recently re-started with the goal of dramatically expanding her new business, About Words Agency. Susan's focus on helping writers is the driving force behind the agency's new direction.

About Words Agency has sold a few books lately including: Hunting Al Qaeda, by Anonymous (foreword by Gerald Schumacher), published by Zenith Press (MBI Publishing) and The Vision Revolution (formerly titled Super Human Vision), by Mark Changizi, Ph.D., now published by BenBella Books.

Susan is one of the founders of Georgia Writers Association, Inc., a state-wide nonprofit organization dedicated to helping writers in Georgia and surrounding areas. Tony Grooms, a poet and prize-winning author, had the original idea. Georgia Writers was born in 1994 when Susan initiated the process to start Georgia Writers with Tony Grooms and Geri Taran. Geri took on the position of Executive Director and grew Georgia Writers to its current size of about 500 members with numerous affiliated writers groups, a student writer arm called Young Georgia Writers, and several annual programs and events. Georgia Writers has continued the prestigious annual Georgia Author of the Year Awards, established in 1963.

Susan is not looking for new clients at this time. She is focusing on her current clients only.

AGENT PROFILE: Raymonde Neely will have his own agency once his training is complete.

Raymonde is looking for:

FICTION: Urban Romance with drama (Carl Weber, E. Lynn Harris), Historical Fiction (Alice Walker, Maya Angelou, Ralph Ellison) Mystery, Suspense/Thriller (action/drama "who done it" with a twist such as The Firm, by John Grisham and Presumed Innocent, by Scott Turow), Literary (To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas), Young Adult (YA) contemporary novels (Holes, by Louis Sachar), and contemporary YA Fantasy (Harry Potter, by J. K. Rowling)

NONFICTION: History, Biography, Memoir (especially historical books written by and about legendary people of modern times such as An Easy Burden, by Andrew Young)

AGENT PROFILE: Felice Gums is a double major in Public Relations and Creative Writing. She writes nonfiction and African American Fiction. She will have her own agency when she has completed her training.

Felice is looking for:

FICTION: Multicultural, African American, Chick Lit, Commercial, Literary, Suspense/Thrillers, Women's Fiction, Urban

NONFICTION: Memoir

AGENT PROFILE: Chris Waller has a diverse background in sales, marketing and asset management in commercial real estate. He is also a successful freelance copywriter and has written the scripts for multiple commercials, as well as case studies for local marketing companies. Chris is originally from Cincinnati, Ohio and now lives in Atlanta, GA.

Chris is looking for:

FICTION: Not looking for any fiction projects at this time.

NONFICTION: Business, investing, finance, real estate, reference, sports, self improvement, history, political, biography, memoir, world cultures, and other nonfiction projects that are unique.

If your book doesn't fit into these more specific profiles, don't worry. It's just a place to start, and we are continuing to look for and train new agents with different interests. As long as it isn't poetry, religious/Christian, or true crime, we'd love to take a look, so send it in! Please send your email query per our guidelines to query at aboutwords dot org.