The Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency
Celebrating 24 Years!  
New York *  Los Angeles

Stephen Fraser joined The Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency in January 2005, after working as an editor for 25 years. Most recently, he worked at HarperCollins Children’s Books, where he edited such creative talents as Mary Engelbreit, Gregory Maguire, Michael Hague, Ann Rinaldi, Kathryn Lasky, Brent Hartinger, Stephen Mitchell, and Dan Gutman. He began his career at Highlights for Children and later worked at Oxford University Press, Scholastic and Simon & Schuster. 

A graduate of Middlebury College in Vermont, he has a Master’s degree in Children’s Literature from Simmons College in Boston. He is a popular speaker at writers conferences. He recently began the Stephen Fraser Encouragement Fund, through SCBWI's Impact and Legacy division, which offers three grants of $2,000 annually to writers, illustrators, and translators.

He represents children’s books in a wide range of genres.

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What I'm looking for

 

I am always looking for good, original writing: picture books with delicious words; middle grade stories that endure, with strong characters and plots; young adult novels that have identifiable teens and hopeful and interesting stories for the soon-to-be adult; and also nonfiction (both picture books and longer works) about original, child-friendly topics. A good mystery perhaps, a ghost story, some poetry, something with a bit of theater. Something to dazzle me.

 

How to submit

 

For queries regarding children's fiction, please send the first twenty pages in the body of your email to fraserstephena@gmail.com, along with a one-paragraph bio and a one-paragraph synopsis. For queries regarding a non-fiction book, please attach the entire proposal as a Word document (the proposal should include a sample chapter), along with a one-paragraph bio and a one-paragraph synopsis of your book in the body of your email.