Before presenting your material, please take a moment to read the submission guidelines which are outlined in the following sections. Your assistance in adhering to these standards will assure that the agency can receive, evaluate and respond to your material as quickly and efficiently as possible.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to email our Submissions Coordinator Melissa Jeglinski at:
Submissions(at)KnightAgency(dot)net. (Please use the @ symbol for “at” and a period for “dot.”) Or click here to launch your email editor.
Submission Guidelines
The Knight Agency takes great strides in creating a writer’s community within the agency as well as throughout the World Wide Web. We strongly desire to provide an encouraging learning environment for aspiring writers of all backgrounds.
Our agents are open to reviewing manuscripts and material from both first-time authors and publishing veterans. We receive thousands of query letters each year, so it’s critical that you adhere to the following guidelines to ensure your work is reviewed by our acquiring agents:
1. We are a Green agency and, therefore, only accept emailed queries. Paper queries submitted via US Mail or any other means (including Fax, Fed-Ex/UPS and even door-to-door delivery) will not be reviewed nor returned. Please help us support the preservation of the environment by emailing your query to our Submissions Coordinator.
2. All queries should be sent to Submissions(at)KnightAgency(dot)net. When typing this email address, please use the @ symbol for “at” and a period for “dot.” We request that queries be kept to approx one-page in length and that all text be contained in the body of an email. Queries can be addressed to submissions coordinator, Melissa Jeglinski, or to the specific agent you feel the project would be best suited for.
3. We are unable to open any attachments. At the query phase we only ask for a standard query letter, this is not yet the time to submit sample material. (Additional material will not be reviewed or returned). All queries will be reviewed on an individual basis by our submissions coordinator and relevant agents. Only a small minority of queries will meet the requirements of the openings in our agency’s list. We are unable to offer tailored critiques or specific reasons for passing on your project; however, a fair amount of time will always be given to your letter in the review process.
If we feel that your project matches the Knight Agency’s needs, we will then request additional materials from the author. In such cases, authors will be asked to submit a partial manuscript (for fiction) or a proposal (for nonfiction). For more information regarding preferred proposal content, please visit our Proposal Guidelines page. At the time such an invitation is made, we will provide you with instructions regarding the proper method for submitting the appropriate additional materials. All submissions are also to be made electronically.
4. The response time for queries is two to three weeks from the time of receipt. If you do not hear back after three weeks, please requery using an alternate email address. It’s possible that our email security filter has blocked your email. Due to spam filters, query letters and even our responses have been known to go missing. Our email security filter has been known to block Hotmail users specifically. To ensure delivery, we suggest that you do not use Hotmail. We ask that you understand these unavoidable inconveniences and appreciate your patience.
5. Review of requested material currently takes six to eight weeks from the time of receipt. Please do not call to check on the status of your manuscript. If you are concerned of its receipt, e-mail is the best way to inquire. If after 4-8 weeks you have not received a response regarding material we have specifically requested, we ask that you resubmit your project via an alternate email address.
6. Due to the the wide range of tastes and preferences that exist among The Knight Agency’s six acquiring agents, we are currently looking for material in a wide spectrum of genres. Please reference the list below for the types of submissions we are NOT currently accepting.
- Screen Plays
- Short Story Collections
- Poetry Collections
- Essay Collections
- Photography
- Film Treatments
- Picture Books (although graphic novels will be accepted)
- Children’s Books (although young adult and middle grade titles will be accepted)
- Biographies
- Non-fiction Historical Treatments
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