United States

Literary agents usa means agents working inside the American market, and that market has its own shape: submissions, auctions and shelf space all happen in the same country. The books that come out of it reach chain bookstores, independent shops and school libraries on a single distribution system.

If you write for children, for adults, or in science fiction and fantasy, the tag covers all three, and the agents below are the ones filed here.

Adams Literary, Andrea Brown, BookEnds Literary, JABberwocky and Nelson Literary all work in English from inside the United States, which means a manuscript reaches them without a border, a currency or a transatlantic postage question in the way. That is the practical difference from the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada tags: submissions arrive in the same market where the book will be sold, and a US house can put a debut on a shelf a reader walks past. The five also differ among themselves in what they carry. Andrea Brown and Adams Literary sit close to children's and young adult fiction, the kind of book a school library orders in multiple copies. BookEnds Literary and Nelson Literary read widely across commercial and upmarket adult fiction. JABberwocky is the one to know if you write science fiction or fantasy, where series and world-building shape the deal.