About Our Agency

Approach

Lucinda Literary is a literary management firm championing the leading thinkers, experts, and emerging voices of today. Led by Lucinda Halpern, who has decades of experience guiding authors to break-out success and long-lasting careers, we specialize in books that change the way people work, behave, and live.

At Lucinda Literary, we’re known for launching debut and bestselling authors across nonfiction and fiction. We now also represent world-class ghostwriters and editors who help bring expert-driven books to life with clarity, narrative power, and lasting impact.

In practical nonfiction, our emphasis is on big idea, popular science, and thought leadership books. In narrative nonfiction and memoir, we elevate stories that challenge the status quo, shine a light on little-known subjects, enlighten and entertain. For fiction itself, we fall in love with voice-driven, emotionally raw novels with commercial and literary appeal. And in children’s books, we seek unconventionally told stories that transport us.

Lucinda Literary distinguishes itself from other agencies in our 360, multi-pronged approach, offering representation, lecture, education, and book collaborations to help authors realize bestselling potential. Our strong backgrounds in marketing and PR, and our broader media and film relationships enable us to be strategists and advocates not just for books, but for the creators behind them. We are never just thinking about book one. We are thinking about your entire career.

We take on a small number of new clients by design, which allows us to be hands-on, attentive, and editorially invested. We help authors generate their best and biggest ideas, often pairing authors with our stable of bestselling writers to bring their books to life.

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Speaker’s Bureau

Lucinda Literary’s Speakers Bureau was founded in 2016 to offer lecture opportunities and relationships to all Lucinda Literary authors, along with a select list of authors represented by colleagues.

Education

Through the Lucinda Literary Academy, founded in 2020, we offer coaching programs, masterminds, and free workshops for writers of all genres and stages. These programs—developed by literary agents and led by industry insiders—are available both in person and on Zoom. Our monthly newsletter, weekly blog, and social media channels provide actionable insights and trend analysis, with the goal of making publishing more transparent and accessible for all writers.

Publishing Relationships

We have worked with all of the major publishers and a number of independents, including:

• PenguinRandomHouse
• HarperCollins
• Simon & Schuster
• Hachette Book Group
• Macmillan
• Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Hay House
• Sounds True
• Scholastic
• Chronicle
• Sourcebooks
• Workman
• Wiley
• Amazon