Our Submission Process

Thank you for your interest in Martin Literary Management. We are a full service literary management agency representing Nonfiction, Literary Fiction, Young Adult. We do not accept poetry, short stories or screenplays.

We are a "Green Agency." Please do not send us hard copy query letters, manuscripts or proposals. We gladly welcome email communication. This is our way of saving the trees and the environment and hope you will respect that. All queries and submissions must be made electronically to the appropriate agent below. Please place your query in the body of an email. No attachments, please. Do not send your work with your initial query until requested.

We give very serious and prompt consideration to the material we request to evaluate for representation. Therefore, we will only ask for you to submit your manuscript or proposal, IF we wish to potentially take you on as a client. Therefore, in exchange for that close and speedy evaluation, we require a one week exclusive period for Sharlene Martin nonfiction writers and a three week exclusive for Andrew Wetzel's fiction writers in order to thoroughly read and access your materials. If we request your proposal or manuscript, we will ask for you to send it to us as an electronic document in MS Word or PDF.

Please be certain, before sending your materials on an exclusive that are requested by us, that if we offer representation, you are willing to accept pending contracts from us. We receive thousands of queries a year and therefore only submit to us your very best completed work.

Everything you need to know about MLM is available on this website. Please take the time to read through it carefully so you know what our standards are and how much we value our authors. Our testimonials from our recent clients are posted and frequently updated.

So, please only query us if the above terms are acceptable to you. We try to respond to all queries within two to three weeks-so definitely expect to get a response one way or the other.

We pride ourselves on "Considerate Literary Management for the 21st Century."