🧑🏫 AGENT HOUR: Query Letter Feedback & AMA w/ Literary Agent Allison Hellegers
** This is a LIVE session and will not be recorded. **
Want to crack the code of the publishing industry?
Agent Hours is your chance to connect directly with literary agents, ask questions, and see live feedback on query letters—all in a dynamic, interactive session designed to help you level up your querying game.
This week, we're thrilled to welcome literary agent Allison Hellegers to Agent Hours.
What Can You Ask?
📬 The Querying Process: From crafting the perfect pitch to landing your dream agent.
🤝 Author/Agent Relationships: What makes a successful partnership?
✍️ Query Letter Feedback: Submit yours and learn what works—and what doesn’t.
Even if you don’t get direct feedback, you’ll gain invaluable insights from hearing Allison tackle real questions and query letters.
How It Works
1️⃣ Submit Your Questions or Query Letters: Ticket holders will receive instructions on submitting questions or query letters upon purchase.
2️⃣ Show Up Live: Join us on Zoom for a 60-minute, ask-me-anything-style session.
3️⃣ Listen & Learn: Watch Allison answer questions, share insider advice, and offer live feedback.
⚠️ Please note: While we aim to address as many submissions as possible, attendance and ticket purchase does not guarantee feedback. Priority feedback goes to London Writers’ Salon members (Silver and Gold). If time permits, we will turn to questions and query letters from ticketed attendees.
Perks for Gold Members 🏆
Priority Feedback: Gold members’ questions and query letters will be addressed first.
Recorded Insights: Can’t make it live? Gold members can submit their questions/query letters in advance and receive a private recording.
👉 Not a Gold member yet? Find out more about Gold Membership here.
Whether you’re refining your query letter or just starting to explore the publishing world, Agent Hours is your backstage pass to publishing insights.
🎟️ Limited tickets available for non-members. Secure your spot now!
About Allison Hellegers
Allison Hellegers is a Foreign Rights Director and Literary Agent for Stimola Literary Studio. After literary scouting, she was the Director of Foreign Rights for Alloy Entertainment and Rights People, and she continues to oversee all foreign, subsidiary and film rights for Stimola Literary Studio while growing her client list. Allison is drawn to works for all ages that push boundaries, evoke emotion, and take readers on a journey.
Her adult co-agent clients include New York Times bestselling author Lucy Adlington (The Dressmakers of Auschwitz) and Reese Book Club pick Holly Smale (Cassandra in Reverse). She’s looking to take on more fiction and non-fiction clients, and is interested in pop culture, music comedy, science, journalism, history, and health/wellness. Her young adult clients include award winning authors Colby Cedar Smith (Call Me Athena) and Rebecca Caprara (Spin) and as well as graphic novel clients Teo Duvall (Brooms) and Mari Costa (Belle of the Ball). In YA, she loves a big hook and bold characters that sweep her off her feet. Middle grade will always be a favorite area, and she enjoys a classic, literary voice with humor and heart, and/or a touch of magical realism. Her middle-grade clients include ALA Notable Elaine Dimopolous (The Remarkable Rescue at Milkweed Meadow) and beloved Australian author Nova Weetman (It All Begins With Jellybeans), who also has her first adult memoir coming out this year (Love, Death & Other Scenes). She represents a select few picture book clients, including Horn Book award winner Dinah Johnson (H is for Harlem) and Ezra Jack Keats honor winner and beloved Slovenian artist Marta Bartolj (Every Little Kindness).
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