PR Firm Orchard Strategies Launches Literary Agency

By Dianna Dilworth 

1416714468011Orchard Strategies, a PR firm that has promoted clients including Whole Foods, Nest Seekers International and Guggenheim, has launched a literary agency called Orchard Literary.

Lucas Hunt is serving as Director of the new agency. He comes to Orchard from the Philip G. Spitzer Literary Agency where he served as a rights manager and agent at for more than seven years, working with clients including: Michael Connelly, James Lee Burke and Andre Dubus III. Christina E. Daigneault, founder of Orchard Strategies, will also work as an agent for the agency.

Clients for the new literary agency include: Betsy Helmuth, author of Big Design, Small Budget and Dr. Doni Wilson, author of The Stress Remedy. Here is more about how to be represented by the agency:

For fiction, please send a query letter that includes an introduction to the work, a brief synopsis, and author biography. A writing sample from the work may be included in the body of the email. For non-fiction, kindly provide a proposal including all of the above, along with any supplementary information about the project, including the author’s credentials for writing the book. We will respond if interested in the work.