Description
15 Minute One-On-One Session with literary agent Michelle Tessler.
Michelle Tessler founded the boutique Tessler Literary Agency in 2004. She represents a select number of award-winning, best-selling, and emerging authors in both fiction and non-fiction. She looks for fresh, original writing that has a compelling point of view and voice.
In fiction, she represent literary, women’s, and commercial. In non-fiction, she represents narrative, popular science/nature, memoir, history, psychology, business, biography, food, and travel.
Michelle is editorially driven, and works with memoirists and novelists on editing their manuscripts before submission and positioning their work. She likewise works closely with clients to craft winning book proposals that will not only interest acquiring editors, but also satisfy the concerns of a publishers’ marketing and publicity staff.
She represents, among others, Mira Jacob (Good Talk, The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing); Rebecca Kauffman (The Reservation, The Gunners); Bonny Reichert (How to Share An Egg); Heather Rose (A Great Act of Love); Amy Stewart (Girl Waits with Gun, The Drunken Botanist, Wicked Plants); Amanda Eyre Ward (The Jetsetters, How to Be Lost); Christine Webb (The Arrogant Ape); Sharon Weinberger (Valley of Death); and Guy Winch (Mind Over Grind, Emotional First Aid).
She is a member of the Association of Author’s Representatives and Women’s Media Group.
Learn more at www.tessleragency.com