About the AGent

Founded in 1995, we are an independent literary agency with offices in New York City and Chatham, New York. Our client list includes a select group of authors and writers whose pioneering works heal the body, inform the mind, and provoke dialogue. We are best known for our ability to package complex theories and abstract ideas into bestselling packages that reach a commercial audience.

Our client list includes many internationally recognized experts in the fields of science, new medicine, popular culture and psychology. We have helped launch New York Times Bestsellers including the EAT RIGHT FOR YOUR TYPE series by Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo (over 5 million copies sold worldwide), THE NO GRAIN DIET by Dr. Joseph Mercola, and CURVES by Gary Heavin and Carol Colman.

Our growing list of career writers, including Rachel Kranz, Lynn Lauber and others, are available to collaborate with expert authors to develop non-fiction books, especially in the realm of diet, personal improvement and self-help. We are also proud to represent inspirational narrative and literary memoir including the National Book Award Finalist PLACES LEFT UNFINISHED AT THE TIME OF CREATION by John Phillip Santos.

Before becoming an agent, Janis Vallely held management positions at Simon & Schuster where she was responsible for selling the reprint and serial rights to bestselling fiction and nonfiction; G.P. Putnam where she was Vice President and Subsidiary Rights Director in charge of both foreign and domestic markets; and most recently Doubleday Publishers where she was Vice President and Associate Publisher. Her background in trade publishing for over twenty years, both as a skilled marketer and editorial advisor, gives her the industry contacts, creative vision and sales expertise to launch a distinctive agency list.

Because it is our policy to maintain a full range of publishing services for existing clients, we are unable to review unsolicited manuscripts and book proposals. For foreign and film rights, please contact our worldwide representatives.