Jemiscoe Chambers-Black, Agent at Andrea Brown Literary Agency

Jemiscoe cannot say that her love of reading came organically. Rather, pizza inspired this new obsession. At seven, her school offered free Pizza Hut and Shakey’s Pizza coupons as a reward for reading books, and Jem was sold. Eventually, the books held more interest than the pizza ever did.

Jem spent over a decade as an assistant director for film and television before returning to books and joining the Andrea Brown Literary Agency in 2020. She considers herself a generalist when it comes to agenting and represents adult fiction, YA, MG, picture book authors, illustrators, graphic novelists, and select nonfiction.

Work with Jemiscoe

LIVE Meetings: Meet face-to-face, from home. Choose Zoom, Google Meet, or phone, and speak for the appointed time about your query, first page, and/or first ten pages (for longer meetings). Does not include written notes, but is a chance to have an honest discussion about your work, and to ask follow-up questions. International meetings welcomed.

HYBRID is a live meeting at the appointment time, with written notes.

WRITTEN Critiques: Get detailed, thoughtful notes on your work. Comes with large-scale edits (character, world, plot, tension, concept, conflict, and similar as needed) in an editorial letter and small-scale, line-by-line notes as needed (for longer critiques, an average of three per page). Work arrives in your inbox within 24 hours of thedate on the calendar.