Astrology and Literature!

General Description:
Sandra Bond started her agency in Denver after working for the Jody Rein Books agency. They work with both first-time and previously published authors, and their clients write fiction in various genres, young adult fiction, and many categories of nonfiction. Sandra was the program administrator at the University of Denver's Publishing Institute and now guest lectures annually at the Institute.

In Fiction, Sandra represents literary, upmarket/commercial, women's that is not romance, mystery and thriller, and she does not represent romance, science fiction, adult fantasy, poetry, children's picture books, or screenplays. In Nonfiction she's interested in narrative, history, science for a general audience and business, and the authors must have real credentials, real expertise in their subject area, and some kind of platform from which they can actively promote their books. Please note: she is no longer representing memoir.

Becky LeJeune met Sandra at the Denver Publishing Institute when she was a student there. After DPI, she spent 2 years working as the managing editor for a cookbook imprint, and then 5 years as an acquisitions editor at The History Press before joining Sandra at BLA in 2014. She is interested in adult and teen horror, mystery/thriller, historical fiction, sci fi, fantasy, general fiction, and cookbooks.

Raymond Barfield, M.D., Jon Bassoff, Margo Catts, Mark Cohen, Rick Collignon, Rod Collins, Stephen Denning, Kelsey Down, Solveig Eggerz, Kirk Farber, Rachel Feder, Gemma Files, Beth Groundwater, Catherine Wallace Hope, W.C. Jameson, Kristin Jones, Todd Keisling, Emily Layne, Alex Livingston, Cynthia Massey, Alexandra Mitchell, Alexander Neuse, Anthony Poon, Jeffrey Pryor, Shelley Read, Susan Spann, Nancy Stohlman, Matthew Tellam, Johann Thorsson, Jill Tietjen, Tiffany Quay Tyson, Len Vlahos, Charlotte Waisman, Matt Wallace, Paula Woodward.

GO AS A RIVER by Shelley Read (Spiegel & Grau)

BORED NO MORE! The ABCs of What to Do When there's Nothing to Do by Julie Reiters (Appleseed/Abrams Childrens)

LOST IN A PLACE SO SMALL by Rick Collignon (Conundrum Press/Bower House)

ONCE AGAIN by Catherine Wallace Hope (Alcove Press/Crooked Lane)

CLIMB: Leaving Safe and Finding Strength on 100 Summits in Japan by Susan Spann (Prometheus Books/Rowman & Littlefield)

HARD WIRED, YA, by Len Vlahos (Bloomsbury Children's)

HIRO HATTORI MYSTERY SERIES (8 books) by Susan Spann

THESE WICKED WATERS, YA, by Emily Layne (Owl Hollow Press)

THE VICTORIO PEAK MYSTERY by W.C. Jameson (Globe Pequot)

HOLLYWOOD HER STORY: An Illustrated History of Women and the Movies by Jill Tietjen & Barbara Bridges (Globe Pequot)

LOST & BURIED TREASURES OF THE CIVIL WAR by W.C. Jameson (Globe Pequot)

THE PAST IS NEVER, A Novel by Tiffany Quay Tyson (Skyhorse)

THE AGE OF AGILE: How Smart Companies are Transforming the Way Work Gets Done by Stephen Denning (Harper Leadership)

AMONG THE LESSER GODS, A Novel by Margo Catts (Arcade/Skyhorse)

LIFE IN A FISH BOWL by Len Vlahos (Bloomsbury Children's)

WE HAVE YOUR DAUGHTER: The Unsolved Murder of JonBenet Ramsey Twenty Years Later by Paula Woodward (Prospecta Press)

AMELIA EARHART: Beyond the Grave by W.C. Jameson (Taylor Trade/Rowman & Littlefield)

THREE RIVERS by Tiffany Quay Tyson (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's)

THE SCAR BOYS by Len Vlahos (Egmont USA)

SEAL WOMAN, A Novel by Solveig Eggerz (Unbridled Books)

February 10, 2023 - TRUST THE HOURS, by Shelley Read
Fiction: Literary
Author of the forthcoming GO AS A RIVER Shelley Read's TRUST THE HOURS, set in the contrasts between the natural beauty of the Sangre de Cristo mountains and the brutal realities of the early 20th-century Colorado Coal Field Wars, the story of two Scottish immigrants caught up in the complex determinants of circumstance and landscape, to Cindy Spiegel at Spiegel & Grau, in a good deal, for publication in spring 2025, by Sandra Bond at Bond Literary Agency (world).

September 15, 2022 - IN THAT ENDLESSNESS, OUR END, by Gemma Files
Audio rights
Gemma Files's IN THAT ENDLESSNESS, OUR END, the winner of the 2022 Bram Stoker Award for a fiction collection, to Daniel Ehrenhaft at Blackstone Audio, in an exclusive submission, by Becky LeJeune at Bond Literary Agency (world English).

June 30, 2022 - THE WOODKIN, by Alexander James
Fiction: Horror
Alexander James's debut THE WOODKIN, in which a lone hiker seeking solace from his ruined marriage on the Pacific Crest Trail must instead take refuge in a small, mysterious mountain town after his gear is destroyed, only to discover that he has put himself in the crosshairs of a pack of cannibals, to Sue Arroyo at CamCat Books, with Helga Schier editing, in a nice deal, for publication in summer 2023, by Becky LeJeune at Bond Literary Agency (world).
Rights: Bill Lehto

Non-fiction: General/ Other
February 17, 2022: Rachel Feder and McCormick Templeman's ASTROLIT, which studies legendary literary figures of the 19th century through the lens of the zodiac and offers astrologically guided advice for practicing writers and recommendations for voracious readers, to Sara Neville at Clarkson Potter, in a nice deal, for publication in fall 2023, by Becky LeJeune at Bond Literary Agency for Feder and Anne Tibbets at Donald Maass Literary Agency for Templeman (world).

Non-fiction: General/Other
February 5, 2022: English professor and British literature expert Rachel Feder's THE DARCY MYTH: HOW IGNORING JANE AUSTEN'S DARK SIDE HAS MESSED UP OUR IDEAS ABOUT LOVE, an exploration of Jane Austen's Gothic influences and how they've affected cultural tropes about romance, from Beauty and the Beast to Fifty Shades of Grey, to Jess Zimmerman at Quirk Books, for publication in November 2023, by Becky LeJeune at Bond Literary Agency (world).

Debut: Fiction
August 18, 2021: GO AS A RIVER, a debut novel by Shelley Read, beginning in 1948, the story follows the life of a young woman in rural Southwest Colorado from first love while on the brink of womanhood to unimaginable loss, to finding a way not only to recover from those losses but to thrive, to Cindy Spiegel at Spiegel & Grau (world).

Children's: Picture book
August 4, 2021: Author-illustrator Julie Reiters's debut BORED NO MORE!: THE ABCS OF WHAT TO DO WHEN THERE'S NOTHING TO DO, an alphabet book celebrating unplugged play and creativity, to Meredith Mundy at Abrams Appleseed, for publication in fall 2022, by Becky LeJeune at Bond Literary Agency (world).

Children's: Young Adult Fiction
December 9, 2020: THESE WICKED WATERS author Emily Layne's OF STARLIGHT AND BONE, pitched as CINDER meets Firefly, in which a woman—part human and part machine—is dead-set on proving her worth as an investigative agent, but when she discovers an unfathomable darkness hidden in the depths of the galaxy connected to her own past, something in the system catches her scent and will stop at nothing as it hunts her as prey, to Hannah Smith at Owl Hollow Press, in a three-book deal, for publication in fall 2022, by Becky LeJeune at Bond Literary Agency (world English).

Fiction: Sci-Fi/ Fantasy
July 29, 2020: Alex Livingston's KNAVE OF SECRETS, about a misfit crew of gamblers roped into a game that threatens the very freedom of the land they call home, to David Thomas Moore at Solaris, for publication in June 2022, by Becky LeJeune at Bond Literary Agency (world English).

FIRES OF EDO: A Hiro Hattori Mystery by Susan Spann (Seventh Street Books)-2021
COLD CASE: PAT GARRETT by W.C. Jameson (Globe Pequot)-TBD
COLD CASE: THE TOMBSTONE MYSTERIES by W.C. Jameson (Globe Pequot)-TBD
THE LAST TRAIN ROBBER by W.C. Jameson (Globe Pequot)-TBD

Jan 2023: GO AS A RIVER has sold in 30+ countries in pre-empts or at auction in major deals, by Susanna Lea & Associates

Foreign Rights: Judy Klein at Kleinworks Agency, judyklein@kleinworks.com

Becky LeJeune, Agent, becky@bondliteraryagency.com

Becky is closed to queries until January 2024. When she reopens, query only through querymanager.com: https://querymanager.com/becky_lejeune
If you're querying about a novel, please do include the FIRST 5 PAGES as your sample. If querying about nonfiction, your query letter should provide enough information about the project and your credentials for us determine if we want to see your book proposal. Please have your book proposal ready—if interested, we will ask to see it. Thank you!

Sandra remains closed until further notice.

THANK YOU!