WriteHigh Literary Agency

Selling your project is like participating in a relay race: each member of the WriteHigh team performs his own tasks, then brings his expertise to the next member for some additional input.

Everyone at WriteHigh is involved in the selling of your book:

  • The entire team helps you with your presentation project. If you have been working with our PR team (Joel, Linda, and Courtney), you will have a beautiful Pitch Kit. If you haven’t, we will all help you to create a Mock Cover to surround your Proposal or your Manuscript. We can help you pick an artist from the ones we work with, or you can make one yourself or select an artist of your own acquaintance.
  • Monique and Susancarefully earmark and select which editors are most likely to be interested in your project, and approach them. Susan Chin’s forte is gaining entry to any editor, and figuring out which editors are good for which category of book. From the Beverly Hills office, Monique then makes the initial pitch.
  • If the editor is in New York, Peter Cauthorn Jaeger pays a call on these editors and pitches your project. He will walk your manuscript or pitch kit to a personal meeting.
  • If an editor has not been heard from for a while (this is par for the course! They have hundreds of manuscripts through which to wade), Peter follows up in person in New York and the East Coast vicinity, and Monique follows up by telephone and email—frequently, and with passion.
Besides these customary “agent-like” activities, WriteHigh provides the following services:

Our European agent takes your project and pitches it abroad at the various international book fairs she regularly and assiduously attends: The London Book Fair, the Frankfurt Book Fair, the Salon du Livre in Paris, and various cities where she travels and pitches projects, from Venice to Bangkok.

Various members of the team attend the BEA (Book Expo America, the US Book Fair, which occurs every year in a different city) each year.

Joel, Linda, and Courtney, YOUR PR Team, remains on its toes, visualizing opportunities to hype your project.

We are a rare agency with our own PR team—one with star credentials. Their media kits prove to editors that our clients have that necessary Platform. Our PR team is prepared to send our clients on interviews and television after the book is out. And Joel Coler, who headed Twentieth Century Fox Advertising and Publicity for over 25 years, can also send client projects to producers.

If your book is the type that is right for film, TV or video, we will show it to producers, or, if we feel that we need to partner with a film agency, we will do that on your behalf.

Ben Pesta, the WriteHigh intellectual properties attorney, crafts contracts and verifies that your interests are always protected. He is available to answer any question and vet any legal document that comes your way. Do not enter into any agreement without consulting him! But he does more: he can negotiate film deals on your behalf and take your projects to certain producers.

Along with the usual team are the professionals that Monique can summon to help you reach publishing stardom. If you are too shy to be comfortable fielding a television interview, we will send you to Media-Savvy for a day’s media coaching. Don’t worry, though… one of us will be there to hold your hand. WriteHigh is a comprehensive team operation that is meant to always, always hold a writer’s hand. It was born from Monique’s desire to help her fellow writers reach publication with joy, a minimum of anxiety, and a sense of mentorship that is so often lacking in what otherwise is a harsh business. Imagine a soft, downy pillowcase, and your head propped up. That is the WriteHigh Literary Agency. We make getting published a softer experience.

WriteHigh does not accept unsolicited manuscripts, though it does accept well-crafted, personalized query letters, by email or by mail; by “personalized,” we mean: tell us how you have come to select our agency, and give us an idea of who you are, and what your book is about. (Go to the tab QUERYING US.)

While Monique and Peter work at WriteHigh full-time, Susan is only with us part-time this year, and Ben maintains his own practice as well as being our WriteHigh attorney.