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.
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…
Award-winning author and journalist Gayle Forman has written several bestselling novels, including those in the Just One Day series, Where She Went, and the #1 New York Times bestseller If I Stay, which has been translated into more than forty languages and was adapted into a major motion picture. Her first middle grade novel, Frankie…
Kyo Pang is a Restaurateur, Founder and Executive Chef of Kopitiam acclaimed for bringing Asian culinary, coffee and tea traditions to the US palate. Pang has been nominated as Chef of the Year in Eater’s Award 2018 and twice nominated as James Beard Semifinalist (2019, 2020). The Malaysian eatery, billed as “wholesome fast-casual,” has received wide…
Veronica Schanoes Veronica Schanoes’s first book of fiction, Burning Girls and Other Stories, came out from Tordotcom in March 2021. The title story won the 2013 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novella and was a finalist for the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards. She is an Associate Professor of English at Queens College – CUNY…
A. M. Woody is a metro-Detroit-based queer author. They graduated from Central Michigan University with a degree in English and a certificate in creative writing. When not writing and reading happily ever afters, they can be found sipping caramel apple cocktails and hosting Avatar: The Last Airbender rewatch parties with their family and friends. You…
Kieryn Ziegler (she/her) grew up in central Pennsylvania, where she figure skated for nine years and enthusiastically participated in her local library’s summer reading programs. She later moved across the country to study screenwriting and won a Humanitas College Drama Award for her original pilot screenplay. Kieryn currently works in the film industry and loves…