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.
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…
Saxton Moore is an Emmy-winning animation director with over two decades of experience bringing stories to life. He’s led creative work for some of the world’s most beloved brands, including Netflix, Nickelodeon, Disney+, and Sesame Street, and played key roles in revitalizing iconic franchises like Care Bears and Strawberry Shortcake. Saxton developed, produced, and directed…
Rachel SearlesOriginally a Michigan Yooper, Rachel’s dominant childhood memory is one of sitting in ice rinks and gobbling up library books during her brother’s countless hockey games. After a decade working at Google, she now fills her days writing big stories and wiping little noses in Los Angeles, and if she had free time, she’d…
Known for her Amazon Best Seller One Winter’s Kiss, and the series starter, and epic fantasy novel, Beautiful Nightmare (Book One), L.C. Son is the happy wife of more than twenty years to her high school sweetheart and a loving mom of three. Growing up, she spent hours reading comic books she “borrowed” from her…
Moonlynn Tsai, is a first-generation Taiwanese-American chef/restaurateur. Nothing lights her up more than bringing a restaurant start-up to life and has done so in the cities of San Jose, where she helped to open the first craft beer bar, Original Gravity and Michelin Bib restaurant, Pine & Crane in Silverlake Los Angeles. After working in…
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…