New Leaf
Literary & Media
New Leaf Literary & Media is a full service management and representation firm that will be with you before and beyond the sale.
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Samira Ahmed
Better Pets
Leigh Bardugo
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S.A. Barnes
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Holly Black
Long Live Evil
Sarah Rees Brennan
Frizzy
Claribel A. Ortega
Vagina Problems
Lara Parker
Less is Liberation
Christine Platt
Ruthless Vows
Rebecca Ross
Why Choose New Leaf?
We take a career-first approach to representation. We believe the future of storytelling extends far beyond the traditional publishing model. We work at the intersection of publishing, entertainment, digital media, branding, and intellectual property development to help our clients build expansive, enduring careers.
We challenge convention, adapt alongside an ever-evolving industry, and approach every project with a long-term, big-picture mindset. Whether developing a book, building an author brand, expanding into film and television, growing digital audiences, securing merchandise licensing opportunities, or creating new revenue streams, we partner closely with our clients to unlock opportunities that extend far beyond the book deal.
Our goal is not simply to sell books, but to help creators build worlds, audiences, and lasting cultural impact.
Launch Pad for Legacy Makers.
Innovate. Collaborate. Advocate. Strategize.
With a full-service Global Media Rights department that supports our clients goals in translation, branding, merchandise, audio, and film and television, New Leaf Literary & Media takes a collaborative, cross-platform approach to maximizing the worldwide potential of our clients’ work.
We help authors, illustrators, and creators expand beyond the page through publishing, entertainment, licensing, merchandise, digital media, and brand partnerships, building lasting careers, influential brands, and meaningful cultural impact.
Claire Contreras is a New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author, mother to two amazing humans, and wife to a real life broody romance hero. An Aquarian through and through, she’s obsessed with the occult and insists that silence is her favorite sound (a close second to laughter). Her favorite books to write are…
DeAndra Davis is an award-winning neurodivergent, Jamaican-American author who lives somewhere in the mountains. Her critically acclaimed books include ALL THE NOISE AT ONCE and THE LOVERS, THE LIARS, AND ME. When she isn’t 100%’ing video games and reading worlds more interesting than the one she lives in, she’s being distracted by her too many…
Ryan Higa is a YouTube celebrity, actor, comedian, and producer. He got started on YouTube while uploading videos as a teenager growing up in Hawaii back in 2006, and he’s been doing it ever since. Ryan has over 18.3 million subscribers to his nigahiga channel, and has held the coveted “Most Subscribed to Channel on YouTube”…
Regina Kim is a freelance entertainment journalist and Forbes contributor based in Queens, NY. She has written about Korean pop culture and AAPI-led entertainment for Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, HuffPost, CNN, ELLE and other national publications; given talks on Korean entertainment at various conferences in the US and South Korea; hosted fan meetings with top…
Malia Maunakea is a Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) writer who grew up on Hawaiʻi Island and Oʻahu before relocating to the continent for college. She’s the author of the middle-grade fiction series Lei and the Legends, including Lei and the Fire Goddess (Penguin Workshop, summer 2023) and Lei and the Invisible Island (Penguin Workshop, summer…
Patricia Riley (she/her) is a writer and editor with over a decade of publishing experience. In addition to her writing and editorial work, she’s a mom of two (almost fully grown) humans, avid word consumer, caffeine-via-tea devotee, and hyper-fangirl of the people she loves. By day, she’s the Chief Operating Officer of a hearing protection…