Chelsey Emmelhainz, literary agent at Copps Literary Services

Chelsey Emmelhainz joined Copps Literary Services as a literary agent after a decade as an editor in the NYC publishing world, working on a wide range of adult commercial fiction and nonfiction. She’s a very editorial, collaborative agent, and loves new authors. Literary, commercial, women’s, young adult, and genre fiction—mainly romance, erotica, horror, cozy mysteries, suspense, and thrillers—as well as nonfiction projects exploring subjects like gender issues, politics, pop culture, and history.

Work with Chelsey

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.

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 by the date on the calendar.

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