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NEW LITERARY AGENT SPOTLIGHT: Madeline Ticknor of Janklow & Nesbit Associates

11/4/2024

 
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ABOUT THE AGENT:

Madeline Ticknor is a literary assistant with Janklow & Nesbit Associates. Madeline began her agenting career in 2018 as an intern at Curtis Brown, and soon after began working as an assistant at the Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency where she worked with award-winning authors including Carl Safina, Nancy Springer, Sarai Walker, Bonnie Kistler, and more. In 2021, she joined Writers House as an agent associate and began building her own list. Authors she worked with at Writers House include Jonathan Franzen, Rachel Kushner, Imbolo Mbue, William T. Vollmann, Tim Murphy, Vauhini Vara, Sanjena Sathian, and many more.

In 2022 Madeline joined Janklow & Nesbit Associates and is actively building her own list of literary and commercial fiction and narrative nonfiction while also assisting PJ Mark and his authors. A graduate of Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, Madeline now lives in Brooklyn.

MADELINE IS SEEKING...

She’s looking for fiction that bridges the gap between commercial and literary, upmarket thrillers and grounded speculative stories that explore the ideas of family and home, and queer stories that subvert or interrogate the concept of “binary.”
You can find Madeline’s in-depth manuscript wishlist here.

HOW TO SUBMIT:

As always, please review the agency’s submission guidelines before you submit.

“Please note that we can only accept submissions via email. Please direct your submission to an individual agent and send your material to [email protected]. Due to the volume of submissions received, please note that we cannot respond to every query. We shall contact you if we wish to pursue your submission.”
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