Brent Howard
@BrentMHoward
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Literary agent at Gramercy Literary; former book editor, only looking for nonfiction at the moment--inquire at [email protected]
New York, NY
Joined March 2012
As a longtime editor but a new literary agent, it’s a joy to see this project land in the right hands. Congrats to @JonathonLEarle and @BasicBooks!
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📬5/ If this sounds like you, send a short pitch + proposal or overview to me (email in bio). I read every submission and reply when there's a fit. Please share this with writers you think I should know. Looking forward to hearing from you.
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📖4/ I'm not looking for memoir or business books. I’m looking for smart, well-structured nonfiction that reveals how the world works, who holds power, and what’s at stake. Think synthesis, storytelling, and serious ambition. #MSWL
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📰3/ Journalists: I’m drawn to books with depth and urgency. If you’re reporting on a topic that matters—climate, surveillance, migration, inequality, power—and can combine a compelling story with rigorous analysis, let’s talk. #MSWL
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🕰️2/ Historians: I'm looking for projects that bring the past alive in vivid, accessible prose. If you're an academic with narrative skill and writing for general readers—on war, politics, technology, empire, race, culture, anything big—I want to hear from you.
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📚1/ Gramercy Lit is open for nonfiction submissions! I'm especially eager to hear from historians and journalists with big, ambitious book ideas aimed at a wide audience. If you're working on something narrative, deeply reported, and driven by original insight, please read on.
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Republican messaging this year seems to be that animal cruelty is okay as long it’s a white, conservative Republican who’s doing it. Vance had no concern for the puppy Kristi Noem shot in the head.
In the last several weeks, my office has received many inquiries from actual residents of Springfield who've said their neighbors' pets or local wildlife were abducted by Haitian migrants. It's possible, of course, that all of these rumors will turn out to be false. Do you know
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After receiving a mountain of fiction submissions, I have to temporarily stop accepting new ones as I read through my inbox. Thank you all who have checked in. I am still open to military history, nonfiction only. Thanks!
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RFK Jr's bear story sounds like something Cosmo Kramer sold to J. Peterman
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Don’t really get why he needs another book—Project 2025 is already 900 pages long
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For nonfiction, platform is important. Academics who own their subject, who’ve done more thinking and research about it than anyone else, stand out. But your writing chops are what makes it sellable.
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FOR NONFICTION, I acquired history for years as an editor. I love big, bold, definitive books that shake up how we think of a person or event.
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I don’t represent children’s picture books, but for the sake of my eight-year-old son, I’m open to chapter books for kids and teens. (He loves the Alex Rider series and I introduced him to old school Gordon Korman!)
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I don’t represent romance, but would I turn down one that I immediately recognized as spectacular? No. Will I receive many? Not kidding myself.
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I love dark crime thrillers, literary horror, suspense, complex espionage tales, genre mash-ups, whether they feature female or male protagonists.
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FOR FICTION, I’m drawn to exceptional writing, high-stakes, tightly plotted stories with momentum, unforgettable characters who leap from the page.
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Calling nonfiction authors! I'm looking for history, military, politics, biographies, journalism, memoirs and science. #amquerying #amagenting #MSWL
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Utterly convinced The Fall Guy flopped at the box office because they didn't use the theme song
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My eight-year-old son is devouring historical fiction. Anyone writing history stories for kids? #MSWL #amquerying
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