Sandy Lu

About

Sandy Lu founded Book Wyrm Literary Agency after working as a literary agent for more than a decade at other boutique agencies, including Peter Rubie Literary Agency, Anderson Literary Management, and most notably, the L. Perkins Agency.
Born and raised in Taiwan, Sandy’s family moved to New York when she was sixteen, so she understands the struggles of immigrants and those who straddle two cultures all too well.
Sandy holds BAs in psychology and sociology from Queens College, with minors in music, business, and Japanese. She attended the Ph.D. Program in Social and Personality Psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center and worked in various business positions in the theater industry. Her areas of study and work experience greatly inform her interest in submissions.

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Faster: Sandy Lu's overall average response time is faster than most agents.
Normal Acceptance: Sandy Lu's overall acceptance rate is within a normal range for agents.
More Responsive: Sandy Lu's overall rate of non-response is lower than most agents.

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In fiction, she is seeking stories that will draw her in with a unique voice, make her miss her bedtime with a thrilling plot, and characters that will stay with her long after she turns the last page. Bonus points if you can make her laugh out loud or unable to hold back tears in public. She especially loves historical fiction, atmospheric world-building, and anything dark, twisted, or with a supernatural bent.

Audience:

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

Genres:

General Open to all/most Subgenres, including: Historical
Fantasy Open to all/most Subgenres, including: Historical
Horror Open to all/most Subgenres
Mystery/Crime Open to all/most Subgenres, including: Crime, Historical
Romance Open to all/most Subgenres, including: Historical
Science Fiction Open to all/most Subgenres
Suspense/Thriller Open to all/most Subgenres

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.

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In non-fiction, she’s looking for projects that can make connections about different topics in an unexpected way, explicate complex research for a general audience, introduce the reader to cutting-edged science or previously little known historical facts and figures, teach us new ways to think or clever skills that can improve our daily life, or expand our knowledge and understanding of the world—past, present, and future.

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience.

Lengths:

Book

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Mainstream.

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics (Excluding: Children/Family, Religion/Spirituality, Sports/Recreation) including...
Business/Finance: Business.
History: General, Biographies.
Lifestyle: Food and Drink.
Psychology.
Society/Culture: Pop culture.

Submissions:

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

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We have received 10 reports from 10 different members within the past 12 months, not including pending responses (see below). The more responses reported, the more accurate the information.

Days Reported

1 min | 46.9 mean avg | 37.0 median | 93 max days (695.0 std dev)

Responses

90.0 %

Acceptances:

0.00 %

Rejections:

90.00 % (34.3 avg. days per rejection) | 11.1 % personal, 88.9 % form, 0.0 % unspecified

Non-Responses

10.00 %

Lost/Returned:

Never Responded:

10.00 % (93.0 avg. days before reporting submissions as never responded)

Withdrawals

Pending

6 responses are pending (72 min | 182.0 mean avg | 216.0 median | 254 max days waiting | 534.7 std dev) from 6 different members

Other Information

Most submissions are acknowledged on the same day.
Most recent response reported was received on 21 Apr 2026.
Responses have been received for submissions sent as recently as 26 Jan 2026.
Date compiled: 15 Sep 2026 09:44 UTC (less than a minute ago).

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Last Updated: 31 Aug 2026

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