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Mission
Statement:
The Heacock Literary Agency was founded 30 years
ago with a vision to get significant books into the marketplace,
books with the potential to uplift humanity and fortify consciousness.
Books can change the individual from the inside
out and individual consciousness can transform the world.
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"Writing is a dog's life, but the
only life worth living."
-- Samuel Johnson
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Links to some current clients and
their books:
Diary
of an Angel
Bit'N
Files
Chatty
Hattie
Bugg
Be
sure to visit
BookPop
with your kids!
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The
Napping House
La
casa adormecida
King
Bidgood's in the Bathtub
Piggies
Cerditos
Heckedy
Peg
Elbert's
Bad Word
Jubal's
Wish
Moonflute
Tickleoctopus
Oh
My Baby Bear!
The
Big Hungry Bear
Bright
and Early Thursday Evening
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Links We Recommend :
SCBWI: Society of Children's Book Writer's & Illustrators
Association of Authors' Representatives, Inc. (AAR)
The Authors Guild
"A
diet should transform your body, not just change it in a superficial
way. A body is not a static entity from which fat can be peeled
away like layers of an onion. The transformation must come from
within, for only a healthy, balanced body can maintain its ideal
weight."
-- Elliot D. Abravanel,
M.D. and Elizabeth King Morrison
DR. ABRAVANEL'S BODY TYPE DIET AND LIFETIME
NUTRITION PLAN
(Bantam Books, 1983, 1999) |
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Welcome to
the
Heacock Literary Agency, Inc.
Agency
History
In
1978, the Heacock Literary Agency was founded in Santa Monica,
California by husband-and-wife team, Jim and Rosalie Grace Heacock.
The two Heacocks worked together
with great success, having sold over 1,100 books to over 100
publishers, and garnering three books on the New York Times'
Best Seller's List. Among their first authors were Wilferd
A. Peterson, Don
and Audrey Wood, Larry
Dane Brimner, Dr.
Allan Chinen, Dr.
Joseph Bark, Elizabeth
King Morrison and Dr.
Elliot Abravanel.
Sadly,
Jim passed away in 1994. Rosalie continued running the agency
until in 2002, she began semi-retirement, continuing to work
with authors under contract, but no longer representing new
clients so that she would be free to pursue her life-long love
of painting en plein air (on-site) landscapes in the Cloudcroft,
New Mexico area, with her artist husband, Bliss Thompson.
In 2005,
Catt LeBaigue
joined Heacock Literary Agency full time as a literary agent,
running the Los Angeles office. Catt comes to the agency with
eighteen years of television
and film experience at Sony Pictures and Warner Bros. Studios.
She grew up in the diplomatic community, living abroad, and
returned to the U.S. to attend California State University,
San Bernardino, B.A, 1982. From the agency's inception,
she occasionally read manuscripts and answered query letters
for the Heacocks, knowing one day that she would leave the film
industry to work full time as a literary agent.
We are happy to announce that Tom Dark has recently joined the agency as an author's representative.
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Interests:
Juvenile fiction: Middle grade Children's
Fiction, Children's Chapter Books, Young Adult Fiction, and
a limited number of Picture Books. No juvenile non-fiction.
Adult fiction: Not accepting new clients for adult fiction
Adult non-fiction: Art, Anthropology,
Body, Mind and Spirit, Ecology, Nature, Indigenous Cultures,
and material that makes a new connection between formal science
and the inner man.
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Submissions and Queries
We are now accepting query letters. In one or two paragraphs describe the plot of your juvenile novel or the subject of your book proposal, give the word count of the finished manuscript and tell us a bit about yourself.
If we feel that your material would be a good fit for the agency, we will send an invitation to submit a single page synopsis and sample chapters of juvenile novels or the book proposal for non-fiction work. Book proposals are required for non-fiction.
We do not accept unsolicited manuscripts, sample chapters or book proposals. Please do not include email attachments. Unrequested email attachments are not opened. Write the email query letter in the body of the email.
If you are sending a query letter by regular mail, then please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope or mailer for a response and return of your materials, if you would like them back.
We prefer email query letters:
catt@heacockliteraryagency.com
tom@heacockliteraryagency.com |
Additional advice to writers seeking literary
representation:
Check the Association
of Authors' Representatives' web site: http://www.aar-online.org/
An author may find a good agent who does not belong to this organization,
but he or she can be assured that there are no inferior agents in
the AAR, as the organization enforces a rigorous code of ethics.
All good wishes to you
for success with your writing endeavors!
Rosalie Grace Heacock Thompson (AAR, SCBWI, Author's Guild)
Heacock Literary Agency, Inc.
Central Office and Headquarters
P.O. Box 226
Cloudcroft, New Mexico 88317 USA
Rosalie
is NOT accepting queries or new clients.
We prefers email queries. Please no unsolicited attachments.
Send email to:
Catt LeBaigue, (AAR, SCBWI)
Author's Representative
catt@heacockliteraryagency.com
Tom Dark
Author's Representative
tom@heacockliteraryagency.com
Heacock Literary Agency, Inc.
1020 Hollywood Way, #439
Burbank, CA 91505 USA
No Certified Mail accepted. Picking up Certified Mail requires us to take time out of our day to make a trip to the post office and we are just too busy to do that. If you need confirmation of receipt, send your query letter via U.S. mail with delivery confirmation and you can then track it through the U. S. postal service. Certified mail will be returned to sender.
Each query letter is read and carefully considered. Please be patient in awaiting a response.
"There are so many things that can be done right where we are ... Perhaps the thing we can do is as near as our next-door neighbor. It may be something we can do in the community. All it takes is a little imagination, a sense of awareness, and a willingness to give of our time."
--Wilferd A. Peterson
THE ART OF LIVING DAY BY DAY
(Simon & Schuster, 1993) |
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