Jen Newens
1,413 posts
Literary agent representing children's lit, cooking, and lifestyle based in San Francisco Bay Area
- Exciting announcement: I'm opening for queries again on April 1. Get your pitches ready! QueryManager.com/JenNewens
- My first agented deal ever, with @heyaliciamae, was announced in the publishing trades today. This is going to be so much fun!
- Hi folks! My inbox in QueryManager is busting at the seams. As such, I will be closing to queries for the summer beginning on June 1. There's still time to get your queries in!
- Down with COVID so using my down time to get through some of the 498 queries waiting for me in Query Manager!
- I’m looking forward to seeing your #QueerPit pitches. I’m closed on query manager, so if I like your pitches, please send me a DM and I’ll send you instructions. Have fun today!
- Nightmare scenario: on the acupuncture table, naked, draped with towels, with needles in multiple places all over my body, being treated for an acute migraine attack, and an earthquake hits. It actually happened to me today.
- Here are all my genres in one place: kid lit (PB, MG, YA, graphic novels) and adult (food & drink, lifestyle, health & wellness, self-help, chronic illness). QueryManager.com/JenNewens #Agent
- Thanks @AndiChitty for the kind words! 12 x 12 member Andi Chitty reveals the behind-the-scenes works that went into landing her agent, Jen Newens at Martin Literary Management
- The most amazing thing happened to one of my agencies clients. Check it out!So excited that MLM client Allie Millington's new middle grade book, OLIVETTI, will be out on Tuesday. Be sure to read the review, written by none other than TOM HANKS, in this weekend New York Times Book Review!!!! Pre-order now! @tomhanks @FeiwelFriends @alliemillington
- I’m delighted, too!📣🎉🥳 I’m delighted to share that I am now represented by @JenNewens at Martin Lit! I can’t wait to see where this next step in the journey leads.
- Anyone out there looking for an agent for cookbooks, lifestyle, self help, health and wellness?









