Our list is currently full and we are unable to accept unsolicited projects at this time. We have to suspend reading queries for the second half of 2010 until we

Marly Rusoff & Associates is an intentionally small agency. While we offer the same support and resources of many bigger agencies, we try to be available to our writers during all stages of the writing and publishing process, and that takes time. Here are some submission guidelines.

Please begin with a query letter, sent either by post or e-mail. If you e-mail the query, please use only the query account posted on the contact page. Your query letter should be concise, perhaps one or two pages. Include a brief summary or synopsis of your project and any pertinent author information, including relevant writing history. Do remember to include an e-mail address if you send your query by mail and do include a word or page count.

Please keep in mind:

Please send queries to query email account only and include the word query in the subject line; those sent to office, rights, or individual agent e-mail accounts cannot be traced. The query account is set to send you an immediate confirmation when your message is received. If you do not receive a confirmation, it is likely we will never see your query.

If it appears that we might make a good match, we will ask you for more material. We use Microsoft Word; please send your pages as a file attachment compatible with this format. For clarity, double space the text and use a font of 12 points.

We do not return manuscripts unless original art or other special materials were sent at our request. Therefore, please, no need for return postage!

We receive many submissions daily and cannot respond personally to each and every one. Please forgive us if we do not get back to you; our silence is not meant as a slight or a judgment on your work. In the event that your project seems like a good match for our agency, we will contact you as soon as possible.

June 17, 2009: We still receive DOCX files which we cannot open. We will no longer email you back and ask you to correct this but simply erase everything from our email and records.

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We do not charge reading fees for requested pages, even though more than one person will often read a work before a decision is made. Once we receive your material, we try to read it as soon as possible, but please be patient.