Get to Know an Agent in Attendance: Analieze Cervantes of Harvey Klinger Literary Agency

Analieze Cervantes is a literary agent with Harvey Klinger Literary Agency.

Analieze is a graduate from Cal State San Bernardino where she studied English: Creative Writing along with a minor in Screenwriting. She has also worked as an Editorial Freelancer for Independent Authors. She started her career as an intern at a New York Literary Agency and then joined the Harvey Klinger Literary Agency in 2020. Analieze is currently building her list and is interested in representing picture books, chapter books, middle grade, YA, and adult fiction.

She’s is especially open to BIPOC and LGBTQ voices in the mentioned categories. Analieze currently resides in Southern California with her five dogs.

Actively seeking projects in the following fiction genres / categories:

Author/Illustrator picture books
Illustrators (picture books)
Chapter Books
Graphic Novels (in all age groups)
Commercial
Literary
Sci-Fi
Romance
Contemporary
Thriller/Suspense
Cozy Mysteries
Crime Fiction
Women’s Fiction

 

 

Get to Know an Agent in Attendance: Lucy Hamilburg of The Hamilburg Agency

Lucy Hamilburg is a literary agent at The Hamilburg Agency.

Formerly, as a teacher, she worked toward the goal of motivating young people to love books. Lucy put great time and passion into curating a classroom library with a core foundation of equity and inclusion. Teaching allowed Lucy to pass on her love of books to her students and to instill in them that special sense of connection to story, to see themselves in the characters. As an agent, she uses her experiences to create long lasting relationships with her clients, editors, and publishers, to represent work that amplifies voice driven work, and most importantly, inspires and sustains life-long readers.

Lucy is looking for picture books, middle grade, and young adult fiction. As a former middle school teacher, she knows what flies off the shelves and is always seeking novels, graphic novels, lyrical prose, and picture books that make kids and young adults laugh out loud and simultaneously pull at their heart strings

Lucy is interested in books that cover universal experiences in humanity from authentic intersectional perspectives. She is drawn to character and voice driven narratives that examine relatable and real life issues that may be intertwined with magical realism or bits of fantasy, a combination of Jason Reynolds and B.B. Alston. She is a sucker for a series with well developed secondary characters as well as characters exploring their identity. She is also looking for page-turners with a strong hook – plots that would put her former students on the edges of their seats. Most importantly, Lucy strives to represent books that inspire empathy and empowerment through authentic perspectives while connecting and relating to all young readers.

She is open to all genres and categories within kidlit books — including fantasy, suspense/thriller, romance, contemporary, humor, paranormal, historical fiction, and everything in between.

Get to Know an Agent in Attendance: Vanessa Campos of D4EO Literary Agency

Vanessa Campos is a literary agent with D4EO Literary Agency.

Prior to joining D4EO, Vanessa was Sales and Marketing Director of Entrepreneur Press.

Vanessa has worked with authors ranging from CEOs to solopreneurs and sees every book as an opportunity to launch and diversify content to a larger audience through worldwide distribution and subsidiary licensing.

At Entrepreneur she first served as marketing specialist and production manager before taking on the position of Sales and Marketing Director from which she launched more than 100 business books.

She is seeking: Now, as an agent at D4EO Literary Agency, she is looking to help bring more diverse voices to the business, entrepreneurship, and self-help publishing space. She does not want any pitches for fiction or children’s books.