Najla Mamou

An agent with Savvy Literary Services (see other agents at this agency).

About

Najla is an avid reader and loves great first chapters, immersive world building, deep character profiles, and well-rounded dialogue. She teaches workshops at several writing conferences, including Common Mistakes In First Chapters, Writing Rules That Can Be Broken, Self-Editing Before the Query, Getting The History And Voice Right, and many other topics. She is co-chair of American Association of Literary Agents’ Professional Development committee and member of the People of Publishing planning committee for the AALA’s annual meeting of literary agents, editors, and publishing professionals.

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In fiction, Najla is drawn to voice-driven, emotionally immersive historical fiction, cinematic thriller/suspense (with series potential), horror with surprise endings and twists (especially psychological), speculative (such as alternative history), and magical realism (light fantasy or romantasy). She would like to add more new adult to her list as well as older protagonists. She would also like to see a cozy mystery with an amateur sleuth in her inbox. She does not represent children’s books and only occasionally takes on young adult novels.
Tropes she’d like to see more of:
Complex societal themes and questions, including privilege and wealth, or lack of.
Themes of rediscovering identity.
Complex parent/guardian and child relationships, where both are good but deceptive, cruel, etc. in different ways.
Misunderstandings or misperceptions of marriage, pregnancy, parenting, death, and/or grief.
In all genres, she hopes to see more immigrant, expat, and/or BIPOC/ underrepresented stories. Last, because real life is messy, stories need strong secondary characters, multiple layers, and complications.

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience, including: Adults, Middle grades, Young adults.

Genres:

General Subgenres: Historical, Magic Realism
Fantasy Open to all/most Subgenres, including: Light Fantasy, Magic Realism
Horror Open to all/most Subgenres, including: Psychological
Romance Subgenre: Romantic Fantasy
Science Fiction Open to all/most Subgenres, including: Alternate History
Suspense/Thriller Open to all/most Subgenres

Lengths:

Novel

Styles:

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

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics including...
Other: See guidelines.

Submissions:

Method: Email.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.

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In nonfiction, Najla gravitates towards narrative nonfiction, true crime, memoir, biography, business/economics, leadership, and stories inspired by lesser known people, professions and crafts (builders, designers, architects), musicians/artists/creators, daredevils, athletes, etc.

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience.

Lengths:

Book

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Mainstream.

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics including...
Business/Finance.
Economics.
History: Biographies, See guidelines.
Memoir.
Society/Culture: Crime.
Sports/Recreation: See guidelines.

Submissions:

Method: Email.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.

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Last Updated: 13 Jul 2026

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