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associate agent at The Friedrich Agency | pronounced marine (like marine biology) 🐳 | she/her/hers | CLOSED TO QUERIES 7/19–8/31/24
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i'm so so horribly behind on queries and general reading, so I'll be closing to queries from 7/19–8/31 in order to catch up on my current backlog!
can't express how grateful I am to everyone who queries/d me and I thank you for your patience!! 🫶✨
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✨SOME NEWSSSSSS✨
pinching myself, feels like a dream come true!! 😊💞 writers, I'm so excited to read your work!! xoxo
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I have a YA-shaped hole in my heart... so would love to see more YA in my queries!
#mswl
✨dark, sweeping, and utterly irresistible speculative novels
✨non-Western centric narratives
✨elements of thriller/mystery/suspense
✨unputdownable voice!!
✨will never say no to magic!
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The Friedrich Agency's hiring an intern (paid, remote)! If you're an avid reader who's interested in book publishing, we'd love to hear from you! Applications are due 4/18 🫶🫶
Apply here ➡️:
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Deal of the day!!! And such an honor to be working with this fabulous team ❤️🔥
I still remember the first time I read
@lenikacruz
' words and the fully body chills I got—I know her voice is going to mean so much + give strength to A LOT of people. 2025 cannot come soon enough!
it’s been months and i still can’t quite believe this is real. i am endlessly grateful and excited for this book to exist in the world.
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A lil' bit of news: excited to share that I've joined the phenomenal team at The Friedrich Agency!! 🥳 Words can't describe how blessed and thrilled I am to have been brought on board ☺️💞
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this weekend I was CONSUMED by one manuscript and I can’t say anything more but holy shit I haven’t cried this hard since THE BOOK THIEF 😭
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✨✨🌟🌟 Honestly, I've been like a kid on a sugar rush since getting the news—I'm SO unbelievably excited to be working with
@theloudflower
!! Y'all aren't ready for this book (and all the other epic ideas she has) 🌟🌟✨✨
Welcome to The Friedrich Agency, Alex! 🥰
Today is a really, really good day because today I have gone from
Querying Writer to AGENTED WRITER!!!!
I am so so so so excited to be rep’d be the amazing
@marintakikawa
at The Friedrich Agency.
Marin, you are amazing and I cannot wait to embark on this journey with you! ❤️
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The Friedrich Agency is hiring ✨✨a paid, remote intern! ✨✨ Come join us! We're pretty cool, I think 😉📚🖊️
For anyone interested in learning more about book publishing! More info in the link below :)
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The Friedrich Agency is hiring another intern! 😎👩💻📚🧙♀️🌟 Looking for an enthusiastic intern who loves books & wants to learn more about book publishing!
- Paid, remote, but must be based in the U.S.
- Deadline: May 23, 2023
- More details via link
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#mswl
(applies to all fiction!) and shoutout to
@bookculture
for my cute “blind date with a book” 😻😙
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Delirious with excitement doesn’t even begin to cover how I feel now that I’m working with
@HeinrichManuia
!!! Manuia’s words, this novel, and its characters and community have my entire heart—watch out, world! 🥳🫶✨✨
THIS POLYNESIAN GIRL HAS AN AGENT 🥹🎉
With a total of 8 offers (luck was on my side, I’m deeply grateful!), I’m thrilled to team up with
@marintakikawa
on my YA speculative thriller SALT WATER BLOOD, and other cool projects! 📘✨
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It's time! I'm donating a 100 pages critique + phone call to
#BooksforMaui
to help raise funds for Maui relief efforts!
Highly recommend checking out all the amazing donation items (almost 1000) and taking part if you're able <3
Link below!
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the friedrich agency's website got a facelift!!! can i just say we look so cute!! 🥰✌️😗
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I'm donating a first chapter critique (YA) for
#KidLit4Ceasefire
!! Money raised will go toward those in Gaza, Sudan, Congo and the Little Miss Flint water campaign.
There are so many great offerings, so please look through and participate if you have the means!
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I read
@AndraAlys
' work and was so utterly gripped I almost missed my subway stop!! Welcome to The Friedrich Agency, Alys 🥰💜🫰
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so excited to hear about Yu and Me Books—the first Asian-American female-owned bookstore/cafe in Manhattan!! 📚☕️
opening 12/11; gofundme below! 💖
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Delighted to be interviewed alongside the brilliant and wonderful
@HeinrichManuia
💜💜
Thank you Pacific Islanders in Publishing for this opportunity! Go check their website out for other interviews they've conducted for AAPI month—so many nuggets of wisdom 😌
@kkealakai
@HeinrichManuia
@HGLiterary
@CassieHartNZ
@GinaColeWriter
@MaliaMaunakea
@shay_kauwe
We’re thrilled to share our interview with Mā’ohi writer
@HeinrichManuia
, and her literary agent
@marintakikawa
. Check out our blog post to learn about Manuia’s querying journey and how she and Marin connected!
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I'm donating a partial manuscript + query critique! Publishing friends and colleagues, join me!!!
#books4Maui
BOOKS FOR MAUI AUCTION: SEEKING DONATIONS
On 8/8, a wildfire swept through Lāhainā, Maui. It consumed hundreds of structures and destroyed families. As Kānaka Maoli authors/publishing professionals & allies, we are reaching out to our
#writingcommunity
for kōkua (help) (🧵1/5)
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the princess diaries score popped on my spotify while working and I got *~*CHILLS*~*
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If you haven't already educated yourself, boycotted, highlighted Palestinian voices, called your reps, protested in SOME shape or form, STEP TF UP. We cannot be lulled into disengagement. Individually we may not be as powerful as corporations, but each of us still has... (1/3)
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💗✨
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$3.8 billion is $10.4 million a day btw. how can we sit and do nothing when our money is fueling the utter decimation and continued occupation of Palestine? blood is on our hands.
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not one, not two, but THREE Friedrich Agency titles on the Booker longlist!!!! 🥳🎊🍾
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a bit of a crazy haul oops, but my heart is nourished 🥰
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dose 1 scheduled!!! I'M CRYING 😭😭😭😭 I'M SO HAPPY
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*underwater not even 5 seconds later* 🤣🤣
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in my mind, I only achieve (actual) adult status when I get a herman miller chair for my home-office-that's-not-actually-a-home-office-but-a-corner-in-my-bedroom 🥹
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Hi there!
A little late here, but I'm liking
#DVPit
pitches on behalf of
@AdriannRanta
. If I ❤️ your tweet, please send your query + first 3 chapters to azsubmissions(at)yrgpartners(dot)com with
#DVPit
anywhere in the subject line.
Thank you xx
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#mswl
🙇🏻♀️🙇🏻♀️🙇🏻♀️
I don’t advise going second-hand book shopping unless you’re prepared to find an old poetry book mysteriously addressed to you by someone who lived a century ago. Definitely don’t read the handwritten dedication that says, ‘I hope I get to love you in the next life, too.’
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honestly really couldn't care less what everyone's halloween costume(s) is/are this year... it just seems so frivolous and self-obsessed while people are dying in Palestine
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For more info on our internship:
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yes, I was that girl sitting on the floor of Borders reading the new princess diaries book 😭
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This novel!!!! IS. SO. GOOD. OMG
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Look out publishing!!!!!! 🥳🥳🌟🌟
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proud agent moment on all fronts 💚♥️ congrats
@amajamfar
on the NEA! And free Palestine forever and always—
Glad to have been awarded a creative writing fellowship from the NEA, but it’s hard to really feel joyful these days—nothing matters until the US-backed Israeli genocide of Palestinians ends
Free Palestine from the river to the sea 🇵🇸
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read this entire thread right now 👇🏼 “Intention (“but I wanna tell your story!”) without social responsibility = appropriation. Go ahead and write stories outside your own. But be ready to take the heat if you falter. Same goes for publishers” YES, YES, and Y E S.
In my MFA program 15 years ago, one of my cohorts remarked in class, “I wish I were a person of color so I had better stories to tell.”
Needless to say: I LOST MY SHIT. (1)
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literally, everything is giving me anxiety-- how am i supposed to function
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Wooooo! We love to see 🥰🥺
Domee Shi, the director of
#TurningRed
, has been named vice president of creative at Pixar, joining directors Andrew Stanton, Peter Sohn and Dan Scanlon in guiding the studio’s filmmakers on their own productions as part of the famed Pixar Braintrust.
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making the most unflattering face ever but LOL I can’t with this screenshot 🤣🤣
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just bought myself a cute book cart bc i need to get my life together and the stack of books on my floor is getting RIDICULOUS
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Show some love to the HarperCollins Union!!! I just donated, would be thrilled if you could join me ❤️🔥❤️🔥
It’s now easier than ever to donate to our strike fund—no more checks!
We’re so grateful to those who‘ve donated as we put our paychecks and careers on hold to get a fair contract.
Continued support is more critical than ever. Donate below! ❤️
📚📕 📕📚
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I’m not a writer, but as someone who will (hopefully, one day...🤞🏼) agent, this was such an eye-opening read—not only in understanding the various anxieties writers go through, but also educating myself in becoming a more empathetic advocate. Thank you
@cmaum
!
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Last day!!!
I'm donating a first chapter critique (YA) for
#KidLit4Ceasefire
!! Money raised will go toward those in Gaza, Sudan, Congo and the Little Miss Flint water campaign.
There are so many great offerings, so please look through and participate if you have the means!
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Best news ever!!!
WELCOME TO THE FRIEDRICH AGENCY,
@darlavelle
! Still pinching myself that you entrusted your novel to us. Cannot WAIT to share it with these lucky editors… (and apologies to the others who were dining near us on Monday, when I let out my ecstatic shrieks of excitement!) 😂🥰🙌
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in today’s NYC sighting: a stranger biking while balancing a basketball on their head 🤯
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Congrats
@flowill
!! ✨👩🔬 If you’re like me, intimidated by (academic) science but intensely curious and craving accessible knowledge, HEARTBREAK is the perfect book for you. And who hasn’t gone through heartbreak? ❤️🩹💅
Congratulations to the finalists for the 2023 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award: Rachel E. Gross (
@rachelegross
), David George Haskell, Manil Suri (
@ManilSuri
), Florence Williams (
@flowill
) and Ed Yong (
@edyong209
).
#PENLitAwards
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I’m a crying mess because of this beautiful beautiful book. Thank you
@napolitanoann
. I think I’m going to call my sister now to tell her I love her
#DearEdward
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and all these halloween parties decorated with bloody bodies/parts... like are you seriously for real?
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Always knew Angelina Jolie was a true one
Angelina Jolie has shared a new statement on Israel and Palestine, expressing her support for Palestinian civilians:
“Whole families are being murdered. While the world watches and with the active support of many governments.”
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if you think we'd be a fit, I'd love to hear from you! xo
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"To physically return ‘home’ is simple enough; one gets on a plane and in a matter of hours or days one is there. But to mentally and emotionally return ‘home’ is a different thing."
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Truly amazed I've held myself together this week
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Am vibrating with so much excitement idk what to do! Watch out world, Lenika’s coming! 💜💜
earnest tweet alert: a very cool and humbling and exciting thing is that i have a literary agent now 🥰 endless thanks to
@LucyACarson
(as well as
@marintakikawa
, Molly Friedrich, and the Friedrich Agency) for believing in me + my work. this feels surreal in the best way.
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!!! The most gorgeous, atmospheric audiobook trailer to the most gorgeous, atmospheric book !!!
Watch the official trailer for Leif Enger's I CHEERFULLY REFUSE - coming April 2!
Learn more about the audiobook:
@groveatlantic
#leifenger
#davidaaronbaker
#icheerfullyrefuse
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@nedlovesbooks
@EmmaSpecter
@rkambury
@AllisonSHunter
@trellislit
yay Nat!!!!!! So so happy for you xx
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i detest february with a passion (worst month imo), so I’m glad it’s finally march 🥹
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Thanks to Jackie Polzin's *gorgeous* essay on the intimacy of letter writing, I'm happy to announce that I'm no longer open to texts or emails. Moving forward, pls communicate with me ONLY through letters 😇😘 xoxo
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deadline is next week!! (please share 🥰)
The Friedrich Agency is hiring ✨✨a paid, remote intern! ✨✨ Come join us! We're pretty cool, I think 😉📚🖊️
For anyone interested in learning more about book publishing! More info in the link below :)
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in the mood for a book that will make me CRY, idk why. Recs?
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le sserafim’s new album is a total banger omg
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@cmaum
Link here: . On another note, go support your local bookshops!!! If you’re in the NYC area,
@kewandwillow
is offering $1 shipping until 3/31!
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@debutiful
NIGHTCRAWLING by
@leilamottley
, FLORIDA WOMAN by
@debontherocks
, DELPHI by
@poetclare
(debut novel)!
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legit the best one ever
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@matthaig1
Would highly recommend
@vmkupersmith
’s BUILD YOUR HOUSE AROUND MY BODY! A brilliant and kaleidoscopic debut novel
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@AashnaAvachat
@HelmLiterary
Woooo, congratulations!! Jess is the absolute best, you’re going to have so much fun working with her!! 🥳💞
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@darlavelle
@LucyACarson
Welcome to The Friedrich Agency, Daria!!! 💞💞 We're all so excited!!😊 And Lucy's the best!
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@AndraAlys
Ugh, so sorry to hear this, Alys! I just recovered from Covid myself, but my worse days were def day 1 to day 4. I kept a (detailed?) record of my symptoms, so am going to DM you now!
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"It feels like a spirit inside of you, that possesses you. The book was my own way of performing an exorcism on myself."
CHILLS! (2/2)
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Last couple of hours!! 💪🏼
#BooksForMaui
It's time! I'm donating a 100 pages critique + phone call to
#BooksforMaui
to help raise funds for Maui relief efforts!
Highly recommend checking out all the amazing donation items (almost 1000) and taking part if you're able <3
Link below!
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I remember when I was automatically allocated to ESL classes when I moved to the 🇺🇸 even though English is one of 🇸🇬’s official languages… And for 2 whole months 😖😖
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so difficult to pick a favorite section, but this keeps replaying in my head:
"I felt haunted when I came back to America after living in Vietnam. Mostly by the violence I saw against women. The everyday misogyny that drains you..." (1/2)
Hosting
@npratc
means sometimes doing interviews about books/music/movies/tv that I don’t love, but this novel by
@vmkupersmith
totally hooked me and I’ve recommended it to friends:
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Come for
@hbrattesani
's graphic, stay for the book recs!! 📚✨🫶
It’s an annual end-of-the-year tradition on The Friedrich Agency blog, so herewith: Our Favorite (Non-Agency) Books of 2022! Orchestrated by
@marintakikawa
with amazing graphics by
@hbrattesani
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@TanyaZilinskas
@heatherannecarr
Yay! Welcome to The Friedrich Agency—Heather is the absolute BEST!!!!
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Virtual festival this weekend (starts tomorrow)!
Schedule + line-up here:
RSVP here:
And link to donate below!
Are you looking to donate to a
#Black
non-profit right now? The Bronx Book Festival could use your help! Donate to help us keep bringing bookish programming to the Boogie Down as well as getting free books into students hands at title I schools.
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