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Welcome to The Krista Goering Literary Agency, LLC!

We are currently looking for exciting new nonfiction projects by authors with a platform who wish to build a brand with multiple projects.

We are interested in nonfiction of all kinds, including

• Innovative books based on interactive multimedia content
• Innovative nutrition/diet books, including those based on interactive multimedia content
• Mind/body/spirit titles of all kinds
• Self-help titles from top-platformed authors
• Personal finance titles from top-platformed authors with a unique angle for down economies
• Baby name books with unique angles, big platforms, or result from extensive studies
• Anything that brings an innovative or fresh perspective or format to long-standing parenting topics
• Books related to college admissions or college survival
• Personal finance titles from top-platformed authors with a unique angle for down economies
• Guide to inexpensive travel (possibly roadtrips)
• How-to books of all kinds
• Narrative nonfiction titles by platformed authors
• Interesting, nichey cookbooks: diet-specific, restriction-specific, cool themes (e.g., Academy Awards)

We are also actively looking for novels with emotional complexity, written by authors with unique voices. Books with humor, mystery, drama, romantic suspense--all types and tones can be right for us. If your manuscript is exciting, electrifying, and exceptional we want to know more.

What not to pitch: Poetry, plays, screenplays

Occasionally we receive well-written manuscripts and proposals that we decline to represent. Besides being able to identify a good book, we must also feel passionate about the book or subject in order to go the distance with the project.

A publishing contract requires a long-term commitment.

If we work together, we are going to spend at least the next several months on your project and, if all goes well, perhaps the rest of your career.

We want to know that you, the writer, are in for the long haul. That you are up to the challenge. That you are prepared to revise your thinking and your proposal or manuscript as required. That you can persevere in the face of rejection. And that you are ready, willing and able to help promote the finished product.

After all, your success is our success. We don't get paid until you have achieved the success of your dreams.

To your success,

Krista Goering