Lisa Hagan Literary

LISA HAGAN LITERARY is known for anticipating future book trends and is among the first to successfully create, shape, and develop appropriate projects with their scientist, writer, innovative cultural-creative, worldwide clients. The agency handles only nonfiction properties.

Lisa has been a literary agent for 25 years. Her goal is to create flourishing relationships with writers to reach a wide audience of readers who are seeking the truth, who want to learn, and who want to be entertained.

Our books have not only been reported in the front pages of The New York Times; USA Today; The New York Times Book Review; and The Los Angeles Times, but regularly appear in Reader’s Digest Magazine; Huffington Post; Santa Monica Sun; The New York Post; The New York Observer; The New York Sun; Daily Variety; People; Details; Entertainment Weekly; Publisher’s Weekly; Booklist; Kirkus Reviews; and the Library Journal.

LISA HAGAN LITERARY clients’ books have been featured on NPR; OPRAH; THE TODAY SHOW; GOOD MORNING AMERICA; LARRY KING LIVE; CBS SUNDAY MORNING; THE O’REILLY FACTOR; COAST TO COAST; THE VIEW; WEEKEND TODAY; LETTERMAN; LENO; KIMMEL; SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE; THE HISTORY CHANNEL; THE SCFI CHANNEL; THE DISCOVERY CHANNEL; MSNBC NEWS; and many others.

If you are interested in our services as a Literary Agency to represent your non-fiction book, please carefully review the following submission requirements.

First, your book should fall within one of our areas of interest:

  • Mind/Body/Spirit
  • Health
  • Science
  • Self-Help
  • Women’s Studies
  • Popular Culture

Next, in the body of your e-mail:

  • Describe the book you are writing
  • Why you are the best person to write this book
  • Why the book will interest a publisher

And lastly, please check grammar and spelling. Send your well-written, short, and concise query within the body of your e-mail (NO attachments please) to: Lisa@lisahaganbooks.com. Do not send a proposal, manuscript or self-published book unless we request it.

Please allow a minimum of two weeks for a response to your query. I look forward to reading your submission.

LISA HAGAN does not charge any reading fee for your work. You should never have to pay an agent prior to receiving your advance. The LISA HAGAN LITERARY AGENCY commission is 15% of the advance and the royalties; 10% for film; and 20% for foreign rights.

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“Lisa Hagan is a superb literary agent. Not only did she sell my book within four months of receiving the proposal, she has tirelessly advocated for me throughout the publishing process. In addition to that she has helped market the book and provided crucial and valuable advice throughout the process. Throw in the fact that she is one of the kindest, nicest people I know and you can see why I wholeheartedly endorse Lisa as an agent and a person. I am super grateful to have her in my corner!”
Amy Leigh Mercree, author Aura Alchemy (Hay House)

“When I researched literary agents you have the BEST things written about you and all you have done. I was/am so impressed and proud to be with you.”
— Wayne White (Potomac Books)

“Lisa Hagan is a true visionary in her role as a literary agent. She is professionally astute and experienced; in fact, her agency is one of the original creators of the mind-body-spirit market. Lisa’s encouragement, confidence, and ability to see what a book can become is one reason why I consider myself extremely lucky to be one of her authors. With her creative and gifted sensibilities, Lisa makes the process of seeing a book from its early stages to the flowering of its publication a most positive, holistic, and wondrous experience.”
–Elaine Clayton, author of Making Marks: Discover the Art of Intuitive Drawing (Beyond Words)