Agent Spotlight: Lauren MacLeod

This week's Agent Spotlight features Lauren MacLeod of Aevitas Creative Management.
Status: Open to submissions.

About: “Lauren E. MacLeod has represented Jodi Meadows, the co-author of the New York Times bestselling My Lady Jane series, actress and activist Nicole Maines, Chefs Kenny Gilbert, Nelson German, and Rogelio Garcia, Middle East Book Award-winner Aminah Mae Safi, and former Youth Poet Laureate of the Southern United States, Alora Young.

MacLeod is a former co-vice president of the Association of American Literary Agents, sitting on the board from 2020-2024. She currently serves on the copyright and contracts committees and co-chairs the communications committee. She is also a member of Les Dames d'Escoffier Nashville. Before joining ACM, she was named Vice President of The Strothman Agency. She graduated cum laude from Emerson College, receiving a BFA in Writing, Literature, and Publishing.

Based in Nashville, TN, she concentrates on cookbooks, food writing and history, young-adult and middle-grade fiction, memoir, pop culture, true crime, and narrative nonfiction."(From the agency website)

About the Agency:
“Aevitas Creative is a full-service literary agency, home to more than forty agents in New York, Boston, Washington DC, Los Angeles, Detroit, Nashville, London, and Barcelona, representing scores of award-winning authors, performers, thinkers, artists, and public figures.

Aevitas also provides high-level strategic communications consulting and original content development services to internationally renowned business, political, and cultural leaders, institutions, brands, and estates. (From the agency website)

Web Presence:
Aevitis Creative Management
Publisher’s Marketplace page.
JacketFlap.

Threads.   
AgentQuery, QueryTracker.
What She's Looking For:
Genres/Specialties:
Middle grade and young adult fiction and nonfiction (currently via referral only), literary fiction, and narrative nonfiction.
See Ms. MacLeod's Manuscript Wish List for detailed information on what she is looking for.
What She Isn't Looking For:
Picture books, chapter books, early readers,  or adult fiction, romance, science fiction, mysteries, and thrillers
Editorial Agent?
Yes.
Clients:
You can find a list of clients on the agency website. Ms. MacLeod’s clients include: Hélène Boudreau, The Barbara Cooney Estate, Aminah Mae Safi, Sashi Kaufman, Robert Lettrick, Jodi Meadows, Dr. Rachel Hez, Steven Hale, Helene Dunbar, American Girls podcast hosts Allison Horrocks and Mary Mahoney, Alan and Claire Linic, among others.
Query Methods:
E-mail: No
Snail-Mail: No.
Online-Form: Yes https://querytracker.net/query/Lmacleod/.
Submission Guidelines (always verify):
Send a query letter outlining your qualifications and experience, a synopsis, the genre and word count of your manuscript, and the first ten pages in the body of the online form. 
Please see the Aevitis Creative Management website for complete, up-to-date submission guidelines.
Response Times:
Lauren will only respond if she's interested.
Worth Your Time:
Interviews and Guest Posts:
Lauren MacLeod and Holly Bodger Guest Post at Literary Rambles (05/2015).
Query.Sign.Submit with Lauren MacLeod at I Write for Apples (06/2014).
Contact:
Please see The Strothman Agency website for contact and query information.
Profile Details:
Last updated: 12/24/2024.
Agent Contacted For Review? Yes.
Last Reviewed By Agent? 5/19/2020.

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