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.
Desiree S. Evans writes fiction for children, teens, and adults. She is the co-editor of the Indie-bestselling young-adult horror fiction anthology The Black Girl Survives in This One (Flatiron Books, 2024), and a contributor to the young-adult fiction anthologies Cool. Awkward. Black. (Penguin Teen, 2023) and Foreshadow: Stories to Celebrate the Magic of Reading and…
Jaylene Clark Owens is a vibrant and imaginative soul hailing from Harlem, NY and currently residing in the Greater Philadelphia Region. She is an AUDELCO and Barrymore Award-winning actress, as well as a highly acclaimed, award-winning poet. Jaylene’s magnetic presence has graced the stage, film, and television, captivating hearts in every performance. On stage, she…
Jaime Pessin is an award-winning writer whose fiction, journalism and essays have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Newsday, The Chicago Tribune, The Charlotte Observer and a number of literary journals. She is currently working on a novel and a collection of short stories, and her debut picture book is forthcoming from…
Veronica Roth is the #1 New York Times best-selling author of When Among Crows, Arch-Conspirator, Poster Girl, Chosen Ones, the Divergent series, and the Carve the Mark duology. Veronica lives in Chicago, Illinois.
Lucy A. Snyder is the Shirley Jackson Award-nominated and five-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of over 100 published short stories and 15 books. Her most recent books are the collections Halloween Season and Exposed Nerves the forthcoming novel Sister, Maiden, Monster. She also wrote the novels Spellbent, Shotgun Sorceress, and Switchblade Goddess, the nonfiction book…
Amber McRee Turner loves the music of words. Juxtapose is her current favorite. Amber is a cancer survivor, reluctant chicken owner, builder of tiny dioramas, and has hundreds of pictures of the sky on her phone. Most of her writing research is done via road trips across her native South and eavesdropping in doctor’s office…