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.
Amanda Aoki loves writing and reading about strong girls who challenge systems of power. Give her all the high stakes novels but a quiet, cozy life. Amanda has degrees in Psychology, Nursing and Human Development. She currently lives in Northern California with her husband, daughter, and small flock of chickens.
Codie Crowley wants to scare you. While working at a haunted house, she made a man shit his pants in terror, which remains her greatest achievement. When she isn’t telling spooky stories, she’s usually out looking for ghosts in Salem, Massachusetts, where she lives with her husband, their cat, and a collection of creepy dolls.
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…
Justin Hellstrom is a writer, sound designer, and all-around art robot clinging to life at the edge of the void. You can find his soul splintered across surreal novels, audiodramas, and videogames.
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…
Meghan Wolff has an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Hamline University. She’s the host of the Magic: the Gathering podcast Good Luck High Five, now in its twelfth year, and a frequent contributor at Wizards of the Coast as a reporter on Magic.gg, a social media manager for @mtgsecretlair on Instagram,…