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Olivia Greenan, Associate Agent

Speilburg Literary Agency​​

Olivia joined Speilburg Literary Agency in 2024 as an intern under Eva Scalzo until becoming the agency’s Administrative Assistant. She is now an Associate Agent and excited to be accepting clients. She graduated with her bachelor’s degree in English Literature Honors and subsequently earned her Master's of English from Binghamton University.

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From a young age Olivia was a borderline fanatical reader, with an interest in anything and everything. She quickly integrated reading into all facets of her life. It is her dream to turn her passion of reading amazing stories into a fulfilling career. Throughout college, her love for stories led her to various roles in her university’s book club and radio station where she utilized her knowledge to reflect her peers’ taste and grow people’s connections with storytelling.

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Olivia lives in New York with her dog, Harper Lee. When her nose is not in a book, she can be found at the movie theater, getting lost in her second favorite form of entertainment or attending every concert within a 100 mile radius.

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Olivia's Manuscript Wishlist:

Olivia is acquiring in the Adult and YA space. As a lifelong mystery reader, she is particularly interested in detective novels. Olivia is also interested in representing Gothic romances, darker Fantasy, and high concept horror, among others.

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Sarah Fox, Agent

Belcastro Agency

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Sarah’s first word was “book,” and she’s been talking about them non-stop ever since. She decided to pursue her love of medieval literature and dead languages by getting
her BA in English Literature from Loyola University Maryland and her MA in English Language and Literature from The Catholic University of America. She has had the joy of working with hundreds of authors through her own editing company, One Sitting Books. She lives in the Washington, D.C. area with her husband, daughter, two corgis, and thousands of books.

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See Sarah's complete Manuscript Wishlist here:

Sarah Fox – The Official Manuscript Wish List Website

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Alicia Brooks, Founding Agent

Alicia Brooks Literary Agency

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Alicia Brooks began her publishing career over twenty-five years ago as an editorial assistant at Penguin USA (Dutton/Plume).  She advanced to an assistant editor position at Nan A. Talese/Doubleday where she worked with groundbreaking authors, including Margaret Atwood, Pat Conroy, and Ian McEwan. She then became an editor at Picador/St. Martin’s Press where she edited over 40 hardcover titles and several trade paper original titles, including Good Morning America Book Club Pick Noelle Howey’s Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods–My Mother’s, My Father’s, and Mine, Nega Mezlekia’s award-winning Notes from the Hyena’s Belly, and Jaclyn Moriarty’s FEELING SORRY FOR CELIA, an ALA Best Book of the Year and YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers.

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She became a literary agent at The Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency in 2019. Her client list included categories such as Memoir, Narrative Nonfiction from writers with diverse backgrounds, Self-Help, Pop Culture, Literary Fiction, Book Club Fiction, YA Fiction, Horror, and Historical Fiction. She represented Boyah J. Farah, author of the earth-shattering memoir AMERICA MADE ME A BLACK MAN (Harper/Nominated for the NAACP Image Award and NPR Best Book of the Year), Kathleen S. Allen, author of the YA Gothic Horror novel THE RESURRECTIONIST (Roaring Brook) Jennifer Sherman Roberts’ THE VILLAGE HEALER’S BOOK OF CURES: A Novel (Lake Union/Named an Editors’ Choice by the Historical Novel Society and Named a First Reads Editors’ Pick by Amazon), internationally renowned Iranian author Nahid Rachlin’s novels MIRAGE and GIVEN AWAY: A Novel Based on True Events (Red Hen Press), and Sofia Romero, author of the linked story collection WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN WHO WE ARE (Blackstone/Shortlisted for the Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction).

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See Alicia's full manuscript wishlist here:

https://abla.agency/about/

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Katie Monson, Senior Agent

SBR Media

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A lifelong reader with a special place in her heart for indie romance, Katie Monson turned her passion for books into a thriving career. After years of blogging, beta reading, and editing manuscripts, she joined SBR Media in August of 2022. Now serving as a Senior Literary Agent, Katie uses her self-motivated, hyper-organized approach to advocate for her authors, elevate their voices, and lead them to career-defining success.

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See Katie's complete manuscript wishlist here:​

https://manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/katie-monson/

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Rachel Beck, Junior Agent

Katie Reed Literary Agency

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Rachel Beck has been in the publishing industry since 2009. She joined Katie Reed Literary in 2026 after working at Liza Dawson Associates for 6.5 years and a boutique agency for four years before that. She got her start in publishing working 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 in New Jersey with her husband, four young children, and endlessly entertaining cat.

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Rachel is looking for:

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• Upmarket/book club fiction or historical fiction—authors like Liane Moriarty, Rachel Beanland, or Kelly Rimmer, who explore sensitive, controversial, or morally gray areas in a complex, sympathetic way. Material that reminds us how difficult it is to be a modern woman, but also how rich and rewarding. Books that explore motherhood, fertility issues, addiction, sexism or sexual assault, and messy family dynamics are good examples—but with a fresh eye that brings something new to the conversations.

• Light-hearted women's fiction or rom-coms—Authors like Kristan Higgins and Emily Henry. A beach read, but with plenty of heart that might make you go from laughing to crying in an instant. Books that address the struggles of your twenties and early thirties, such as dating woes, career fulfillment/advancement, deciding whether to have kids or not, social media pressures, etc.

• Suspense/thrillers—Character-driven, psychologically intense reads, with characters who are mind-blowingly insane or compelling or extreme or fascinating. Unlikeable characters are most welcome; would love to see a good classic antihero. Just give me characters and plots I won’t be able to stop thinking about. 

• Select nonfiction—feminist material; career/business/personal growth books with new focus points; extreme underdog, survival, accomplishment, or rising-from-poverty type stories; select health and wellness books (especially mental health, eating disorders, any rare or underrepresented conditions, Alzheimer’s/memory—she’s especially interested in the condition known as HSAM, Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory); books about football/the NFL; marathoner/triathlete memoirs; parenting books that bring something new to the conversation; books that explore cult life or extreme religion.

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Andi Twaddle, Associate Agent

Spencerhill Associates

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Andi is an associate agent with Spencerhill Associates. In a previous life, she spent a decade giving her time and energy to a career in accounting while quietly investing her heart and soul into stories through her own writing and writing community. Now, she aims to combine her favorite aspects of both worlds in service of uplifting other writers.

With her sharp business skills and editorial mindset, Andi hopes to represent Adult and New Adult commercial fiction with a literary edge across Romance, Horror, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and select Book Club ready fiction with a magical or speculative bent. She also hopes to build a list of Picture Book and Graphic Novel authors and author/illustrators who write stories that are joyful, magical, and a little off-beat. Andi is particularly interested in representing authors from marginalized backgrounds, be that BIPOC creators, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, or creators that represent diverse abilities - mental, physical, or otherwise!

Andi can be found traveling the world, across social media @booksbytwaddle, or somewhere in the wilds of the Midwest USA with her husband, two mostly feral children, and two slightly less feral beasts.