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Victoria Cappello

The Bent Agency

Submission status
Closed
Submission route
Email
Response time
Assume no reply = no after 4 weeks
Last checked
2 days ago

About

Victoria is a Vice President and literary agent at The Bent Agency, representing narrative nonfiction and select crime fiction.

She grew up in Queens, New York, and holds degrees in Media Studies and Psychology. Before joining The Bent Agency in 2013, she worked at Serendipity Literary Agency and the Carol Mann Agency. She also serves as the agency's Administrative Director.

Genres

CrimeMysteryNarrative Non-FictionOther Non-FictionSelf-HelpTrue Crime

Looking for

  • expert-driven narrative nonfiction in the areas of true crime, psychology, pop culture, technology, and pop science
  • investigative deep dives
  • illuminating books about parenting, either prescriptive or narrative
  • anything geared toward a millennial audience
  • crime fiction or a mystery that involves a murder

Agency submission guidelines

Writers should review the agency's agents' pages and decide which one to query; email the chosen agent using the address on their page or their QueryManager link if indicated. Writers should not simultaneously query multiple agents at the agency; submit to only one, and if that agent passes the writer may try another. The title of the project should be included in the subject line, with a brief note on who the writer is and what the book is about, then the first ten pages of the book pasted in the body of the email (not as an attachment). For picture books, the complete text should be included; for illustrations, also include a link to the writer's website if available, or two or three PDFs or JPEGs of the work. For graphic novels, the first ten pages of the script should be pasted in the body of the email, as well as the first five pages of the dummy; if the dummy isn't finished, up to three samples of finished work or a link to an online portfolio should be included. Writers should not send an exclusive query, as queries are meant to be shared with multiple agencies. The Bent Agency only accepts email or QueryManager queries; postal mail submissions will be recycled and not returned.

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