 ABOUT THE AGENT: Barry Harbaugh joined WLA Books in 2025. He was previously an executive editor at Spiegel & Grau, a founding senior editor of Amazon Original Stories, and an editor at Harper, the flagship imprint of HarperCollins, where he debuted writers such as Alexandra Kleeman and Robert Kolker. Books he has acquired and edited have won international awards, become bestsellers, and been adapted into TV/film by HBO (Lovecraft Country), Netflix (Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery), ESPN’s 30-for-30 (When the Garden Was Eden), among others. Originally from Southern Indiana, he started in publishing as an intern, assistant, and fact-checker at Zoetrope: All-Story, The Paris Review, Harper’s Magazine, and Condé Nast Portfolio. Keep reading to see if Barry Harbaugh is your dream agent! BARRY IS SEEKING: He is interested in narrative nonfiction, literary and crime fiction, memoir and first-person hybrids, sports, current events, biography--writing that obsessively entertains, reveals a hidden realm, and broadens our sense of being alive.  Learn secrets and proven paths to finding an agent with the book GET A LITERARY AGENT. The guide explains query letter writing, submission dos and don'ts, how to craft engaging opening pages, synopsis FAQs, nonfiction proposal tips, literary agent pet peeves, and much more. HOW TO QUERY: In order to submit to WLA Books, please email your query letter and the first ten pages of your project in the body of an email. Please note: When we post a New Agent Spotlight, we try to make sure the agent is open to submissions at the time of posting. But as time goes by, an agent can close and open to submissions at any time. If some time has passed since this spotlight was posted, you will want to check their agency website and/or QueryManager before submitting, to be sure. Please submit literary fiction, mystery & thriller, narrative nonfiction, and current events to Barry Harbaugh at ([email protected]).  Attend a Writers Conference in 2026:
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