About Wendy Sherman

Wendy Sherman is a seasoned professional with over 25 years of publishing experience. She has held senior executive positions at Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, and Henry Holt. During her tenure at these major publishing houses, she served as Director of Subsidiary Rights, Director of Marketing, and Director of Sales, as well as, most recently, Vice President, Associate Publisher, and Executive Director of Publishing at Henry Holt. She became a literary agent when she joined the Aaron Priest Agency. With a desire to work more closely with writers, and have a key role in the development and management of their careers, she founded Wendy Sherman Associates, Inc. in 1999.

Wendy is a board member of the Association of Authors Representatives (AAR) and a member of The Women's Media Group.

Wendy is particularly interested in fiction with a strong voice and unique perspective. She loves quality women’s fiction—whether literary or with more commercial appeal. Mainstream commercial fiction, literary fiction, upmarket women’s fiction, and African-American fiction are strong categories for us. In non-fiction, she loves anything unique with a strong media platform. Narrative non-fiction, memoir, practical and prescriptive, self-help and mainstream psychology are general areas of interest, as are books that show us how to live life in a better way.


About Kimberly Perel

Kim Perel joined Wendy Sherman Associates in January 2009.  After graduating from Syracuse University’s  S.I. Newhouse School in 2004, Kim worked in the editorial department at Forbes magazine and later as a copywriter  and freelance journalist.  She is currently pursuing a Master of Fine Arts degree at The New School in New York City. After interning with WSA, Kim fell in love with the idea of championing emerging talent and helping writers through the process of getting published. With over five years experience as a writer herself, Kim now brings her magazine background to the world of books.

In addition to many other functions within the agency, Kim handles submissions for WSA and is passionate about discovering fresh voices. She is drawn to voice-driven fiction, novels that illuminate an unknown world, and true-to-life characters. She looks for queries that provide fresh insight or capture life at a certain period in time.  She also loves humor, memoir that tells a unique story, and journalistic non-fiction.

She is currently reading A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore, Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann and A Fortunate Age by Joanna Smith.


Jenny Meyer

Jenny Meyer has been in the business of foreign rights since 1996. Founded in 2002, Jenny Meyer Literary Agency, Inc. represents UK and translation rights on behalf of a wide variety of U.S.-based literary agencies and authors. Jenny attends the major international bookfairs, selling direct in all territories which fosters a close working relationship with foreign publishers, thereby maximizing the potential of each project abroad.

Subagents

World excluding Asia
Jenny Meyer
Jenny Meyer Literary Agency
jenny@meyerlit.com

Japan (exceptions noted)
Owl's Agency
shimo@owlsagency.com

Korea
Duran Kim
Duran Kim Agency
duran@durankim.com
People's Republic of China
Jackie Huang
Andrew Nurnberg Associates, Inc.
jhuang@nurnberg.com.cn

Taiwan
Whitney Hsu
Andrew Nurnberg Associates, Inc
whsu@nurnberg.com.tw


We do not represent the following areas:

  • Screenplays
  • Cozy mysteries
  • Genre romance, westerns, science fiction, or fantasy
  • Children’s picture books