Thank you for your interest in submitting to us

Great Dog Literary accepts submissions from both children's and adult authors.   

In children's books we represent picture books, middle grade, and YA. Liz represents a good deal of nonfiction, and has a particular love for middle grade fiction. "I am drawn to coming of age stories, and I’m a sucker for a good middle grade mystery." Mona’s focus is: Literary picture books; Smart MGs/ YAs empathic, imaginative and rooted in reality; Creative approaches to non-fiction

In adult books, we represent literary fiction, poetry and mystery/thrillers, and narrative non-fiction in the areas of food/cooking/gardening, memoir, pop culture, science and technology, true crime, travel. Mona particularly seeks psychologically interesting fiction that transcends plot, and creative non-fiction that deepens our understanding of the world and the human condition

We are particularly seeking diverse voices and perspectives.

Authors we represent include Don Bolognese, Susan Champlin, Lynn Curlee, Diane deGroat, Emma Fick, Kermit Frazier, Hardie Gramatky (estate), Marti Hill, Jonathan Hollingsworth, Johanna Hurwitz, Emily Perl Kingsley, Kathryn Lefroy, Stan Mack, J.A. Marley, Henna Nandwani, Nicole Quinn, Lisa N. Peterson, Ron Roose, Eric Rosenblum, Shelley Rotner, Seymour Simon, Crystal Simone Smith, Erica Simone Turnipseed, A. Wild (a.k.a. Ashley Wilda), Jessica Wolf.

If you are a writer who is interested in submitting a manuscript, please query us through our portal,  https://querymanager.com/query/GreatDogLit and in the "Sample" section please include:

• Fiction: The first five pages of your manuscript. 
• Non-Fiction: Your Complete Book Proposal.
• Picture book authors should paste in their entire manuscript

Illustrators should query via our portal (https://querymanager.com/query/GreatDogLit) with links to your portfolio or other visual work online. Alternatively, if you have illustrations and/or a dummy for the work you are pitching, let us know that in your query and we can send a request which will allow you to upload a PDF.

 We accept queries only via QueryMe as described above. If we are interested in reading further we will be in touch within 4-6 weeks. We regret that we cannot guarantee a response to every submission; if you have not heard back from us within 6 weeks, we are declining the opportunity to represent your work at this time.