I.
A critique of the query letter
Read before an agent does — the hook, the stakes, the comp titles, and the paragraph where they stop reading.
§ I — The querying writer’s companion
From manuscript to deal.
A live catalogue of literary agents — read off the agencies’ own pages, one at a time, and kept current. The rest of it opens in 2027.
Name your genre and the next screen tells you how many agents are open to it right now.
If you’re querying, you already know the part nobody warns you about. The writing was hard. Finding out who to send it to is worse — a hundred agency pages, each with its own rules, half of them last updated two years ago, and no reliable way to tell who is actually reading right now.
So that’s what got built first. 208 agents, 155 of them open to queries today, across nineteen agencies in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Read one page at a time off the agencies’ own websites — genres, submission route, what to attach, how long they take, and whether silence means no. Where an agency doesn’t say, the field is left blank. A guess would be worse than nothing.
§ II — What exists today
Narrative nonfiction90
Literary fiction74
Memoir54
Thriller / suspense50
Upmarket / book club48
History43
Young adult38
Speculative fiction37
Commercial fiction32
Essays / criticism32
Romance31
Horror28
Fantasy26
Historical fiction24
Popular science24
Crime23
Middle grade23
Mystery20
Science fiction20
Biography19
Self-help / how-to16
Women’s fiction13
Picture books7
Business / economics6
Agents open to queries by genre, as of 6 August 2026. An agent counts under every genre they represent, so these add to more than 155.
§ III — In development, and not available yet
II.
Matching, not listing
Of the agents open today, the ones whose stated interests your book actually belongs to, and the reasoning for each.
III.
Where every query stands
What’s out, what’s gone past the agency’s own stated response window, and what to do about it.
None of that works yet. The catalogue is real and growing; everything above it is being built. This page says so because a product about accurate data can’t start by fudging its own.
If any of this sounds like the thing you needed six months ago, the list is the whole point of this page.
Two emails between now and launch, then nothing until it’s live. Never shared, never sold. One click to leave.
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