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2025 AGENT ONE-ON-ONE MEETINGS
No Additional Cost • Limited Availability
Included with your Regular One- or Two-Day Conference Registration
Take advantage of this opportunity to secure one individual session with a literary agent, based on availability. These are optional sessions, which must be scheduled in advance unless otherwise announced. Included with your regular conference ticket at no additional cost.
These appointments are not transferable to others and no one can have more than one agent meeting/consultation. Appointment slots are limited.
Scheduling
When you register for the conference you will be able to select your first and second choices for agents. Your second agent choice indicates who you would like to see if your first choice is not available. It is not a second meeting. Be sure to review the agent choices below and make your selections prior to beginning the registration process.
In mid September, we will send you further information about your scheduled appointment. Please do not contact us with questions about scheduling until after that time.
These individual meetings are assigned on a first-come-first-served basis and may fill up. Early registration is recommended to ensure you can take advantage of these opportunities.
On Selecting an Agent
How to make the best use of your appointment
We are pleased to offer a diverse selection of agents who represent a wide range of genres. When reviewing which agents you would like to select as your first and second choices on your conference registration form, review each bio carefully, including any links to their agent websites and manuscript wishlists (MSWL), to make sure you are selecting agents who represent the type of work you write.
Please note, even though we’ve asked our agents what they’re most interested in acquiring at this conference, you should take a look at their entire MSWL. Think of “specifically looking for” more as a mood and not as a finite list.
You will make your agent selections on your regular conference registration form.
Confirmed Agents for 2025
Paloma Hernando
Paloma Hernando got her start at Einstein Literary Management in 2020, where she built a list focusing on graphic novels and illustrated books, and joined APL in the fall of 2024. Coming from a background of independent comics and the DIY scene, Paloma has always been attracted to well-told stories with a passionate drive behind them. Paloma also represents illustrators for literary projects and is always on the lookout for strong visual styles. At this conference, Paloma is specifically looking for: Graphic Novels, sciene fiction/fantasy, queer romance, non fiction on pop culture or queer history |
Please do not pitch Paloma:
Any work with police, detectives, or military persons as the protagonist; true crime, or memoirs.
Helen Masvikeni
Helen Masvikeni is a literary agent focused on combining her own experience as an artist with the business side of publishing to support authors from creation through publication and beyond. Her unique background brings an interesting and fresh perspective to the publishing world. She has an extensive background in the arts being an internationally-performing musician and photographer as well as having worked in video, theater and film. With a Business and Marketing background, she has worked extensively in the non-profit sector and more recently for the Denver Center for Performing Arts. Originally from Harare, Zimbabwe and now residing in Colorado, Helen is passionate about storytelling and artistic expression.
At this conference, Helen is specifically looking for:
High-concept thrillers, sweeping epic romances, religious and faith-driven fiction, authentic and thought-provoking memoirs. I seek voices that disrupt, soothe, provoke, or reimagine what it means to live and remember.
Please do not pitch Helen:
Picture Books, Fantasy, Science Fiction
Heather Osborn
Before joining Spencerhill Associates, Heather Osborn spent many years editing romance, science fiction, fantasy, cozy mystery, and women’s fiction for various publishers. The experience of working with well-established, bestselling authors, as well as those just embarking on their careers has helped shape her skills working with authors at every stage in their publishing journey. One of Heather’s greatest joys in life is discovering an amazing new author, whether that be in a slush pile, or on a bookstore shelf, and she looks forward to building long-lasting relationships built on clear and open communication with her clients.
Heather is interested in representing works of popular fiction, mainly concentrated on romance of all genres and sub-genres other than inspirational—with a particular interest in romantasy (and if there are dragons, all the better!), humorous contemporary romance, and paranormal romance—as well as fantasy (particularly cozy fantasy), urban fantasy, and science fiction with strong romantic elements. Some more specific #MSWL requests include #ownvoices romances, especially AAHPI, Kpop romance, and rock star romances.
At this conference, Heather is specifically looking for:
| Contemporary romance with fun and original hooks, paranormal academy romance/romantasy, new adult romance, cozy fantasy, cozy mystery. | ||
Please don’t pitch Heather:
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Jade Wong-Baxter
Jade Wong-Baxter joined the Frances Goldin Literary Agency in 2021, after spending three years at Massie & McQuilkin Literary Agents. She received her B.A. in English Literature and Chinese from Vassar College. Jade is looking for adult literary and upmarket/bookclub fiction, as well as narrative nonfiction.
At this conference, Jade is specifically looking for:
Upmarket fiction and smart romcoms; books with riveting plot; fiction that’s uplifting; object history; memoir plus (memoir with a larger scope beyond the author’s own experience)
Please don’t pitch Jade:
| Genre Thrillers, Children’s Books, YA, High Fantasy, Right-wing conservatism |
Jessica Felleman
Meetings with Jessica Felleman are full.
Jessica Felleman [she/her] is a literary agent with the Jennifer Lyons Literary Agency, where she represents a range of authors, including experts writing prescriptive nonfiction and critical memoirs, to novelists writing speculative literary fiction, commercial and upmarket women’s fiction, and YA science fiction & fantasy. Jessica has an MFA in Writing from CalArts and loves fiction that blends genres or gets weird, and looks for work that features underserved voices, unforgettable places, and complicated relationships.
At this conference, Jessica is specifically looking for:
Fiction: Literary and upmarket speculative fiction or fiction that balances on the edge of genre, blends genres, or gets weird. Commercial or Upmarket women’s fiction that plays with traditional tropes. And some selective science fiction/fantasy, Romantasy, and light horror. I’m always looking for work with an emphasis on LGBTQIA+ characters and underrepresented POVs. Nonfiction: Pop culture nonfiction, prescriptive self-help from experts, and narrative nonfiction about psychology, culture, science, or history that adds vital context to contemporary life.
Please do not pitch Jessica:
At this time I am not looking to represent romance/erotica, thrillers, true crime, memoirs, cookbooks, graphic novels, poetry, short story collections, or Childrens or Middle Grade books. I’m not a huge fan of the following: First person narrators who don’t know their own identity, fantasy and science fiction that revolve around war, narratives that involve enslavement, dreamworlds, stories where the character growth of one character is based on violence towards another (specifically femme presenting) character or children.
Eloy Bleifuss
Meetings with Eloy Bleifuss are full.
Eloy Bleifuss is a literary agent at Neon Literary representing both fiction and nonfiction. Prior to joining Neon, Eloy worked at Janklow & Nesbit Associates and Simon & Schuster. Born and raised in Chicago, he is a graduate of Vassar College and lives in Brooklyn.
At this conference, Eloy is specifically looking for:
Literary fiction, literary or upmarket mysteries/thrillers, or grounded speculative novels. Non-fiction written by experts or books that seek to teach the reader about a particular topic.
Please do not pitch Eloy:
| Young adult or Children’s books, Rom-Coms |
Kate McKean
Meetings with Kate McKean are full.
Kate McKean is a literary agent at the Howard Morhaim Literary Agency in Brooklyn, New York. She earned her MA in fiction writing at the University of Southern Mississippi. She is the author of Write Through It: An Insider’s Guide to Publishing and the Creative Life (Simon Element, 2025) and a forthcoming picture book to be published by Sourcebooks in 2026. She writes the “Agents & Books” newsletter at agentsandbooks.com.
At this conference, Kate is specifically looking for:
| Commercial women’s fiction, romance, romcom, historical fiction, historical women’s fiction, science fiction, fantasy, romantasy, YA, MG |
Please do not pitch Kate: Memoir, Science, Essays, Thrillers, Mysteries |