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2024 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.
By early September, we will send you further information about your scheduled appointment(s). 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. However, please note, not all genres are available. 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. Many of these agents are not currently open to submissions or queries without referrals, so this is an opportunity not to be squandered. It’s a waste of your time and theirs (not to mention taking an appointment that might be a good match for someone else) if you pitch an agent on your inspirational memoir when the agent primarily represents young adult science fiction and fantasy. Choose carefully to maximize the benefit to everyone.
You will make your agent selections when completing your regular conference registration form.
Confirmed Agents for 2024
Jennifer Udden
With over a decade of experience agenting, including time spent at the Donald Maass Agency, the Barry Goldblatt Agency, and New Leaf Literary, Jennifer Udden is very excited to now join the team at LDLA. She has worked with a wide variety of notable authors of genre fiction, among them New York Times bestsellers and Hugo award finalists and winners. She’s also worn many other hats, including comics recruiter, freelance editor, and romance novelist, has a soft spot for the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, and runs a weekly newsletter about publishing & writing called A Faster No.
Amy Bishop-Wycisk
Amy Bishop-Wycisk (why-zick) is an agent at Trellis Literary Management, cultivating a wide-ranging list in upmarket and book club fiction, grounded SFF, expert-driven narrative nonfiction, cultural criticism, history, and select YA, with a special interest in underrepresented voices. Her authors’ books have been NYT, USA Today, and indie bestsellers, a Reese’s Book Club selection, James Beard Award and Edgar Award winners, and Book of the Month picks.
Please note, Amy is only available for appointments on Saturday. Please do not select an appointment with Amy if you are purchasing a Sunday-only ticket.
Melanie Figueroa
Melanie Figueroa is a literary agent at Root Literary and a member of the Association of American Literary Agents (AALA). She represents award-winning and bestselling authors of children’s literature and adult fiction. A Southern California native, she was born and raised in a multicultural, blended family, so she has a soft spot for books that shine a spotlight on the nuances of relationships, identity, and culture.
Jordan Hill
Jordan Hill is a Literary Agent at New Leaf Literary and Media. Jordan is primarily pursuing upmarket and genre fiction for adults. She loves intergenerational stories that grapple with complexities of families and culture through time and anything with an unreliable narrator or a speculative bent. She’s also a fan of weird short fiction. Across the board, she also considers historical fiction or retellings with a fresh approach and compelling perspective.
Rachel Beck
Rachel Beck joined Liza Dawson Associates in 2020 after working at a boutique literary agency for four years. She has been in the publishing industry since 2009 and worked at Harlequin editing romance novels for nearly six years before transitioning her skills to the agent world in order to be an advocate and champion for authors. She lives outside of Pittsburgh with her husband, three young children, and endlessly entertaining cat. |
Iwalani Kim
Iwalani Kim is an associate agent at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates, which she joined in 2018. She represents adult upmarket and literary fiction as well as nonfiction, and her clients include writers like Megan Kamalei Kakimoto, Naomi Xu Elegant, Reena Shah, and Alice Evelyn Yang, among others. She’s from Honolulu, Hawai’i. |
Kate McKean
Kate McKean’s appointments are now full. Kate McKean is Vice President and Literary Agent at the Howard Morhaim Literary Agency. She represents a wide variety of clients from New York Times bestseller Alix E. Harrow to the internet’s home to the best doggos, “We Rate Dogs.” She is the author of Agents & Books, a newsletter about authors, editors, and agents (katemckean.substack.com), a monthly column in Poets & Writers about publishing myths, and the forthcoming book Write Through It: Publishing, Books, and Navigating the Creative Life, due out in May, 2025 by Simon Element. |