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Hartline Literary Agency represents fiction and non-fiction books to leading mainline and inspirational publishers. Over the years, we have built productive working relationships with editors that help us advise you and guide your work toward the most appropriate markets.

We currently represent many award-winning authors, and we seek to add both established and promising authors to our list of clients. If we recognize potential in your work we will do our best to achieve the exposure and attention it deserves.

Our core strength is representing commercial fiction and non-fiction books for adults, although we will represent selected books for children. We do not market short fiction, screenplays, scripts, poetry, or magazine articles. We are prepared to represent most genres in commercial fiction except science fiction and fantasy. We are probably not the right agency to market your literary fiction, nor are we likely to appreciate manuscripts that contain extraordinary violence, unnecessary profanity, or gratuitous sexuality.

Hartline Literary Agency follows high ethical standards:

• We don't charge fees for reading or evaluating your work (including outlines, proposals, and manuscripts)
  
  
• We try to respond to queries as quickly as possible (although our workload sometimes stretches the evaluation process longer than we—or you—would like)
  
  
• We don't make referrals to related providers of coaching or editing services
  
  
• We have a straightforward, traditional fee structure. Our fee is 15 percent of royalties and advances earned by the work we represent. We pass on to you other charges incurred in submitting your work to publishers (such as copying, retyping (if necessary), postage, and delivery services)
  
  
• We are diligent in protecting funds we receive in your behalf (our policy is to pay earnings received from a publisher as soon as our bank has cleared the publisher's check).

Hartline Literary Agency strives to be accessible, rather than distant or unapproachable. Our clients often tell us that we are friendly and service-oriented, that they enjoy being represented by Hartline agents. We're proud of our reputation, and also of the rapport we've built with major publishers.