JABberwocky Literary Agency

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  • News

    9/26/2023

    Lilliam Rivera Named MacDowell Fellow for Forthcoming Book TINY THREADS
    Congratulations are in order for JABberwocky author Lilliam Rivera, who has been awarded a MacDowell Fellowship, a highly prestigious artist residency program! This excellent news is followed by another exciting announcement: Lilliam’s first adult book, Tiny Threads, will be published from Del Rey! Tiny Threads is a dark supernatural thriller that follows a young woman
  • News

    7/25/2023

    JAB welcomes new agent: Yezanira Venecia!
    JABberwocky Literary Agency is pleased to announce that Yezanira Venecia has joined as a junior literary agent! Yezanira Venecia has had a career in publishing for the past seven years, working in various editorial roles at Skyhorse Publishing, Soho Press, and most recently as an editor of general fiction and nonfiction (with a focus in crime fiction, memoirs, and
  • Uncategorised

    7/6/2023

    Our 2023 Hugo Awards Finalists
    We’re thrilled to share our latest good news on the awards front: a number of JABberwocky authors and editors are finalists for the 2023 Hugo Awards! The Hugo finalists were announced today in advance of this fall’s awards, which will be presented at Worldcon 81 in Chengdu, China. Our clients’ work spans five different categories:
  • News

    6/29/2023

    Jordan Joins JABberwocky!
    JABberwocky Literary Agency is pleased to announce that Jordan Hamessley has joined as a literary agent. Jordan Hamessley has had a distinguished career in publishing for the past fifteen years, beginning in editorial at Penguin Books for Young Readers’ Grosset & Dunlap division and Egmont USA to heading the Adaptive Books imprint of Adaptive Studios.
  • News

    6/8/2023

    Aurora Teagarden Returns to Hallmark in New Prequel
    EDIT: The air date for the new Aurora Teagarden prequel have been announced! The first movie, “Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Something New” will air Friday, June 9th, at 9/8 c on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries. Young Aurora returns home to Lawrenceton after college to pursue her post-grad degree and finds herself embroiled in a mystery involving
  • Awards

    5/15/2023

    Samantha Mills is a Nebula Award Winner
    We’re thrilled to share that Samantha Mills won the 2023 Nebula Award for Best Short Story this weekend! Sam’s short story, “Rabbit Test“, weaves together a brilliantly heartbreaking story about abortion laws throughout history and into the near-future, tying together several perspectives of women and people with uteruses, and their struggle for bodily autonomy. It
  • News

    5/10/2023

    Please welcome, Dan Koboldt!
    Hello World, We are excited to announce the latest addition to the JABberwocky family, veteran author and co-creator of the #SFFpit Twitter challenge: Dan Koboldt!  Dan is the author of the Gateways to Alissia trilogy (Harper Voyager), the Build-A-Dragon Sequence (Baen), and Silver Queendom (Angry Robot). He is also the editor of Putting the Science in Fiction and Putting the Fact in Fantasy (Writer’s Digest), and the
  • Awards

    5/1/2023

    Our 2023 Locus Awards Finalists
    Over the weekend, the finalists for the 2023 Locus Awards were announced, and JABberwocky is so excited to see so many clients nominated! Six JABberwocky authors have had their writing recognized across four different categories. Additionally, four clients have been nominated for their editorial work in various anthologies and magazine editorships. We’re thrilled to see
  • News

    4/26/2023

    HOW TO SELL A HAUNTED HOUSE Will Be Adapted into a Film
    Roll out the red carpet — Pupkin’s here and ready to play. HOW TO SELL A HAUNTED HOUSE, the latest and greatest by JABberwocky client Grady Hendrix, is being adapted for film! Variety shared the news today that Legendary Entertainment, the studio behind Dune (2022), acquired the film/tv rights for the novel. Also attached to
  • News

    4/17/2023

    JABberwocky has moved!
    On Wednesday (4/19/2023) JABberwocky permanently relocated its office to a new space at: 49 West 45th Street, Suite #5N New York, NY 10036 If that looks rather familiar that is because we are staying in the same building, just moving out of our old location on the 12th floor. The new office is larger and