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.
The Singular Life of Aria Patel
Samira Ahmed
The Familiar
Leigh Bardugo
Cold Eternity by S.A. Barnes
S.A. Barnes
Book of Night
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.
The product of an interracial relationship in 1969 Georgia, Malcolm Hansen was born in a home for unwed mothers in Chattanooga, TN. Adopted by two Civil Rights activists, the intersection of the personal and the political is at the heart of his creative work. As a high school dropout who went on to earn a…
Julie Lynn is a queer poet-storyteller, herbalist, parent and birth doula with roots in both the Sonoran Desert and the Willamette River Valley. Following in the folk traditions of her ancestral Irish, Swedish, German, and Muscogee peoples, Julie aims to make mystery of a world obsessed with making sense. Her work can be found online…
Nilah Magruder is based in Maryland. She is the author of M.F.K., a middle-grade graphic novel and winner of the Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity, HOW TO FIND A FOX, and WUTARYOO. She has published short stories in Fireside Magazine and the All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages anthology. Nilah…
Elyse Martin is a Chinese-American Smith College graduate who lives in Washington, DC with her husband and two cats. She writes reviews for Publishers Weekly, and her essays, articles, interviews, and humor pieces have appeared in Slate, The Toast, Electric Literature, Perspectives on History, The Bias, Entropy Magazine, Publishers Weekly, Smithsonian Magazine, and Tor.com. Her article, “Please Let Women…
I’m Thao, an illustrator based in Dallas, TX. My style is playful and warm, featuring cozy textures and characters that feel full of life. I’ve spent the last seven years working on custom watercolor, and digital portraits. Now I’m channeling that passion into children’s books. My greatest inspirations are my two sons, and the everyday…
Keshni’s stories are influenced by the two continents she calls home. Born and raised in an apartheid segregated township in South Africa, she now also considers Washington D.C. home. And after almost a decade here, she has finally gotten used to Orion being the right way up in the night’s sky. Her stories are influenced…