Annie Bomke

Annie Bomke Literary Agency

Annie Bomke is a literary agent with more than a decade of experience in the publishing industry. She represents a wide range of projects hard-nosed business books to otherworldly historical novels. She is looking for a wide variety of fiction and nonfiction, including commercial and literary fiction, upmarket fiction, mysteries (hilarious cozies to gritty police procedurals and everything in between), historical fiction, women’s fiction, psychological thrillers, literary/psychological horror, YA fiction, self-help, business, health/diet, cookbooks, memoir, relationships, current events, psychology, and narrative nonfiction especially if the book features diverse characters.

Prior to founding her own agency, Annie spent eight years at Margret McBride Literary Agency, where she worked with internationally bestselling authors such as Ken Blanchard, Spencer Johnson, Bob Burg and John Assaraf.

Annie has loved the publishing industry since internship at Zoetrope: All-Story, a literary magazine founded by Francis Ford Coppola. She explored her love of books managing a rare bookstore, and even had a brief stint as a technical writer for a Department of Defense contractor. Authors have called her the pH test for good writing, and a bedrock for literary quality control.

She is not interested in representing: middle grade, chapter books, picture books, poetry, screenplays, romance, sci-fi, fantasy, or paranormal.