NANCY YOST

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Nancy Yost represents a wide variety of writers of commercial fiction, specializing in crime novels; thrillers, mysteries, suspense; historical fiction and historical suspense; and women’s fiction of all kinds. Her nonfiction tastes lean to social history and natural science. She looks for complex, engrossing, character- and voice-driven reads, and has a fondness for a good ghost story, southern fiction, historical fiction, atmosphere, intelligence and humor.

 

She represents many New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors, including the author of legal thrillers, Perri O’Shaughnessy; historical novelist, Stephanie Laurens; Mademoiselle columnist, Valerie Frankel, bestselling and critically acclaimed romance authors including Loretta Chase, Liz Carlyle, Suzanne Enoch and Gaelen Foley. Other authors include award-winning and Edgar nominated mystery and suspense novelists, Deborah Crombie, Margaret Frazer, and Victoria Thompson; along with bestselling mystery authors Monica Ferris, Tamar Myers, Patricia Sprinkle and Linda Castillo.

       

Before becoming an agent, Nancy was an editor at Avon Books, and also worked at Random House in contracts. She admits to a brief stint as an opera singer as well, a career which well-qualified her for the drama of the publishing world. She’s also a scuba enthusiast and can honestly claim to swim with the sharks.

       

 

To Submit

By mail:

For Fiction: Mail a query letter, short synopsis, first chapter and a S.A.S.E (Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope).

For Nonfiction: Mail a query letter, proposal, if available, or else a project overview and a S.A.S.E (Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope).

To:

Lowenstein-Yost Associates
121 West 27th Street
Suite 601
New York, NY 10001

By Email: Please complete the following form, providing the information that pertains to your submission.



For Fiction:

 

  
Name:
Email Address:
Please list any prior literary credits including books previously published, MFA programs, awards/grants, short stories in magazines or journals and/or any prior representation:
Please write a short synopsis of your novel (250 words maximum):

Total word count:
Any additional information you’d like to include (i.e., media exposure, articles, website; 250 words maximum):
Is this a multiple query? Yes No
 


For Non-Fiction:

 

  
Name:
Email Address:

Please list your credentials for authoring this book (ie. expert in field):

 
Please describe the book briefly (100 words maximum):
Total word count:
Any additional information you'd like to include (250 words maximum):
Is this a multiple query? Yes No