General Literary Novels

Writers House has been around for over forty years, and in addition to being an actual house (it's true! Check our website!), it's one of the largest literary agencies in the industry, representing fiction and non-fiction of every stripe. I've been with Writers House for a little over nine years now, and while I'm not an actual house (couldn't get the permits), I'm a pretty omnivorous agent.
Genres:    General, Fantasy, Mystery/Crime.
Lengths: Novel.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 22.5 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

Jon graduated from the University of California, San Diego with a Bachelor’s degree in English Literature, and later completed a Master’s degree in Publishing: Digital and Print Media at NYU. After gaining experience at Writers House and NYU Press, he joined HG Literary to assist partner and agent Josh Getzler on a wide variety of titles in fiction and nonfiction. In addition to being an agent, Jon also coordinates HG Literary’s internship program…
Genres:      General, Fantasy, Mystery/Crime, Science Fiction, Suspense/Thriller.
Lengths: Novel.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 60.4 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

Stephanie Delman spent 10 years building her list at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates before co-founding Trellis Literary Management in the fall of 2021. Stephanie is focused on adult fiction: stylish writing, literary/upmarket fiction, socially conscious thrillers, untold or underrepresented historical fiction, psychologically propulsive suspense, maximalist storytelling (in ambition, not in word count), and literary novels that play with genre…
Genres:   General, Suspense/Thriller.
Lengths: Novel.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 47.5 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

Jordan Hill is a Literary Agent at New Leaf Literary and Media who represents genre and upmarket fiction for children and adults, often in the SFF and horror spaces. Whether through relationships, plot, or conflict, books on her list often address the question: all hope is lost, what now? She’s not afraid of the dark and loves stories that grapple with the complexities of family and culture through time…
Lengths: Novel.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 262.6 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

Zoe-Aline Howard began working as an agent in 2022, while earning her BFA in Creative Writing and Publishing Certificate at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. She has had the privilege to work across publishing in multiple capacities, including an internship at Lookout Books, and her current role as Senior Literary Publicist at Pine State Publicity. As Director of Pine State Literary, she represents adult literary fiction and adult nonfiction…
Genres:     General, Fantasy, Horror, Western.
Lengths: Novel.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 20.5 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

Lauren Khan joined FinePrint Literary in 2025 as an Associate Agent following an internship at Triada US Literary Agency. She first entered the publishing world as an author. Prior to transitioning to agenting, she worked for over seven years as a corporate lawyer in New York City. Lauren brings both editorial and transactional expertise to her clients. Lauren lives with her family in her small beach hometown in Florida…
Genres:     General, Mystery/Crime, Romance, Suspense/Thriller.
Lengths: Novel.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 0.1 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

Jennifer March Soloway is a co-founder and agent at Starling Literary + Media. After an initial career in marketing and public relations, Jennifer shifted to publishing in 2013. She became an agent in 2016 at the Andrea Brown Literary Agency, where she was a senior agent, before co-founding Starling in 2025 with her dear friends and colleagues, Jemiscoe Chambers-Black and Paige Terlip…
Genres:       Open to all/most genres, including: General, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Suspense/Thriller.
Lengths: Novel.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 32.7 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

Eddie Schneider is the Vice President of JABberwocky Literary Agency, which he joined back when the nerve center was still Joshua Bilmes’ living room. These days, the agency is in a real office, sandwiched between Grand Central Station and Times Square in midtown Manhattan, and the bustling new digs only serve to motivate Eddie in his pursuit of great authors, both new and new to JABberwocky. Eddie is an Iowa graduate, where he studied fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction. He has an M.S…
Genres:    General, Fantasy, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Novel.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 162.4 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

Michaela Whatnall joined the agency’s West Coast office in 2019. They received a degree from Emory University in English and linguistics, completed the Columbia Publishing Course, and have experience in school & library marketing, bookselling, and reviewing for trade publications. In 2023, Michaela was named a Publishers Weekly Star Watch Honoree in recognition of their work as an agent at Dystel, Goderich & Bourret…
Genres:       General, Action-Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Novel.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 11.4 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.