Publishing Panel: Getting an Agent
October
21
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm EDT
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What you need to get ready to query, how you do it, whom you target, how to change agents if you have one who isn’t working well for you, and all the other nuts and bolts for getting your foot in the door.
With WCYA graduates Kelly Dyksterhouse (’14) and Linda Camacho (’14), moderated by Victoria Wells Arms (’19).
Join us on October 21 at 7:00-8:30pm ET. Register here or at the link below.
Kelly Dyksterhouse is a literary agent at The Tobias Literary Agency. She began her career in agenting through an internship with The Bent Agency in 2012, and later as an assistant at Upstart Crow Literary. She joined Jacqui Lipton at Raven Quill Literary Agency in 2020, and together they merged with The Tobias Literary Agency in 2022. Kelly specializes in building the careers of authors and illustrators who work on a broad range of projects from picture books to young adult novels, graphic novels and fascinating nonfiction for the youth market. Her clients include Callie C. Miller, Dana Swift, Jess Brallier, Jack Keely, Nedda Lewers, Leslie Stall Widener, Tom Birdseye, C. M. Surrisi, and A. A. Vacharat. Kelly holds a MFA in Writing for Children and Young adults, and aside from writing and agenting, she enjoys kayaking or sailing on the water and scuba diving under it or hiking in the woods.
Linda Camacho is an agent at Gallt & Zacker Literary Agency. She started out on the other side of publishing and held various positions at Simon & Schuster, Writers House, and Penguin Random House. She has an MFA in children’s writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and represents writers and illustrators across both the children’s and adult categories. To get a better sense of the projects she gravitates toward, be sure to check out LindaCamacho.com.
Victoria Wells Arms is a literary agent at Hannigan Getzler Literary Agency where she specializes in children’s books for all ages, as well as select adult fiction and food books. Before becoming an agent, she spent twenty years as an editor and was the founding editorial director at Bloomsbury USA’s Children’s Division, where she worked with many bestselling and award-winning authors. She has an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts in Writing for Children and Young Adults. Victoria lives in New York City and Ithaca, NY.
