Amy Moore-Benson joins Canadian literary agency Cooke McDermid

She’s looking mostly for commercial fiction and narrative nonfiction

Image ~ All the Colour in the World by CS Richardson, represented by CookeMcDermid

CookeMcDermid Literary Management

was created in 2017 by the amalgamation of two pre-eminent Canadian agencies, The Cooke Agency and The McDermid Agency.

CookeMcDermid is a full-service literary agency, representing authors in Canada, the U.S., and throughout the world. The agency represents literary, commercial and speculative fiction, a broad range of nonfiction, and middle-grade and young adult books. These books have been adapted into major motion pictures and translated into more than 60 languages.

CookeMcDermid sells directly into Canada, US, UK, Australia, New Zealand and India and sells translation rights in conjunction with 35 co-agents around the world. CookeMecDermid also has an in-house film/tv division that sells these rights directly or works with associates to do so.

Amy Moore-Benson

is the newest member of the team at Cooke-McDermid, but she’s been in publishing since she was 17 and worked for Passion magazine in Paris. After graduating from McGill University, she spent 13 years at Harlequin Enterprises, where she launched and acquired fiction for MIRA Books, the romance company’s mainstream commercial fiction imprint.

After leaving Harlequin, she became a literary agent, first at her own agency, AMB Literary Management, and then with Meridian Artists, representing a stellar roster of authors, both in Canada and the US.

Amy is primarily focused on commercial fiction and narrative nonfiction: domestic thrillers, high-concept suspense, romance, voice-driven women’s fiction, memoir, ripped-from-the-headlines narratives, personal investigations. At the heart of all the books she sells are singular voices and high-impact storytelling, stories that challenge the reader, offer new experiences and more than anything else, entertain and engage.

Some of her clients include: Rick Mofina, Alisha Rai, Victoria Helen Stone, Elaine Lui, Johanna Schneller, Brandi Leifso, Teo Paul, Jamie Mason, Andre Fenton, Corey Liu.

Amy lives in Toronto with her family.

You can query Amy here.

Note: Rachel Letofsky of CookMcDermid will the guest speaker for our upcoming “How to Get Published” workshop. Details here.

Read more about the CookeMcDermid agency here.

See all upcoming weekly writing classes, one-day workshops, and weekend retreats here. 

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