Lindstrom Literary Management LLC

Submission Guidelines

Although LLM maintains a small roster of clients, we keep an eye open for new talent and established authors looking for a more personalized relationship with an agent.

• LLM handles:
• Commercial fiction
• Thrillers and mysteries
• Women's fiction
• Narrative nonfiction
• Biography/memoir
• Current events

We do not handle young adult or children's books, or short stories and poetry.

LLM receives a couple of thousand submissions a year. We do not accept queries by telephone.

Submission Guidelines

General: Lindstrom Literary Management has now moved to an all e-mail submission policy. Only queries of interest to the agent will receive a response. Note that because we do not charge reading fees, no editorial comments or direction can be given on rejected submissions. Follow guidelines below.

Fiction: Please send a query e-mail that describes the book, its genre and length, as well as the first three chapters and a synopsis of the manuscript. Include an author biography and publishing history in the e-mail. Paste this information into the body of the e-mail. Please do not include attachments unless requested to do so. If the full manuscript is requested list your contact information on the manuscript title page. Avoid hyperbole and cliches. Telling us your book will be a runaway bestseller will not affect our decision and will most likely be viewed as a negative, given how many times we see this grandiose boast.

Nonfiction: E-mail a letter with an outline providing a general mission statement, as well as a complete author biography. As in the fiction guidelines, please do not include attachments unless requested to do so.

submissions@lindstromliterary.com