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Jon Michael Darga

An agent with Aevitas Creative Management (see other agents at this agency).

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Jon Michael Darga represents titles across a diverse range of genres, including memoir (most recently, the New York Times bestselling Vagabond by Tim Curry), pop culture (New York Times bestsellers How to Save a Life by Lynette Rice and Your Favorite Scary Movie by Ashley Cullins), platform-driven (New York Times bestseller How to Piss Off Men by Kyle Prue), and cookbook (Family Thai by Arnold Myint, named a Best Cookbook of 2025 by the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times), as well as select commercial fiction primarily in the romance, mystery/thriller, and horror spaces.

Darga graduated from the University of Michigan with Honors with a BA in English and Creative Writing, and later attended the Columbia University publishing program. Before coming to Aevitas, he was an editor at Crown, a division within Penguin Random House, where he worked on several bestsellers and award winners. He is the Co-Head of Aevitas Collaboration and was a Publishers Weekly Star Watch Honoree in 2025.

Darga represents both non-fiction and fiction as an Aevitas agent based in Michigan. He is most interested in voice-driven pop culture writing, non-fiction histories that re-cast the narrative by emphasizing unexpected or unheard voices, and adult commercial fiction that features diverse casts and new stories. He does not represent children's books, and is not looking for genre fiction like political/crime thrillers, fantasy/sci-fi, or non-fiction in the self-help/how-to/business categories.

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Collapse section Fiction Open

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience.

Genres:

General

Lengths:

Novel

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Literary, Mainstream.

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics.

Submissions:

Method: QueryTracker.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.

Collapse section Nonfiction Open

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience.

Lengths:

Book

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Literary, Mainstream.

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics including...
History: See guidelines.
Society/Culture: Pop culture, See guidelines.

Submissions:

Method: QueryTracker.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.

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This agent ranks among the 25 Fastest Fiction Agents in our database.
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We have received 7 reports from 7 different members within the past 12 months. The more responses reported, the more accurate the information.
Days Reported
1 min | 2.0 mean avg | 1.0 median | 5 max days (1.5 std dev)

Other Information

Most recent response reported was received on 01 Sep 2026.
Responses have been received for submissions sent as recently as 31 Aug 2026.
Date compiled: 15 Sep 2026 02:53 UTC (6 hours, 50 minutes ago).
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Dates

Last Updated: 08 Sep 2026

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