Win a written query critique and phone call with Marissa to discuss query and any other project or industry related questions.

Adult only, please.

Marissa Higgins is a lesbian journalist. Her debut novel, The Wives, is forthcoming with Catapult Books in 2024. Her work has appeared in Best American Food Writing 2018, NPR, Salon, Slate, Washington Post, Atlantic, and elsewhere.

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Win a 30-minute phone or video call with Roma Panganiban, literary agent/assistant at Janklow & Nesbit, to discuss your query (written critique provided in advance of the call) and any questions you might have about the querying process, agent/author relationships, agent/editor relationships, or anything else about the publishing industry in general.

Adult genres only, please.

Since 2019, Roma Panganiban has closely assisted three agents at Janklow & Nesbit whose lists span both children's and adult markets, fiction and nonfiction, genre and literary. She is now signing clients in all of the above, with a particular affinity for character-driven literary fiction featuring underrepresented perspectives.

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