Erica Bauman, Agent At Aevitas Creative Management

Erica Bauman is a literary agent at Aevitas Creative Management and represents a wide variety of authors across middle grade, young adult, and upmarket adult fiction, including acclaimed YA author Maria Ingrande Mora, New York Times Bestseller Kayla Cottingham, and Lambda Literary Fellow Naseem Jamnia.

Erica is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and has worked in the publishing industry since 2012. Prior to Aevitas, she worked at Spectrum Literary Agency.

Based in New York, Erica is most interested in commercial novels that feature an exciting premise and lyrical, atmospheric writing; imaginative, genre-blending tales; speculative worlds filled with haunting, quietly wondrous magic; fresh retellings of mythology, ballet, opera, and classic literature; sharply funny rom-coms; graphic novels for all ages; fearless storytellers that tackle big ideas and contemporary issues; and working with and supporting marginalized authors and stories that represent the wide range of humanity.

Member Reviews of Erica

Erica was fantastic- really enjoyed working with her. Great critique and edits. Inevitably some of her suggestions were at odds with what I have heard from others, but I will try to incorporate everything.

Ezra Cohen

Ericaís query critique was extremely helpful! Her positivity was so encouraging, and her specific feedback gave me targeted points to tweak in my query as I move forward in the query trenches. Very thankful for the opportunity to meet with her!

Elisabeth Gay

Thank you Jessica and Julie for your request for feedback. I am happy to share my experience was extremely rewarding. I met with Erica Bauman for a ten-minute consultation regarding my debut novel, ìEscape of the Swamp Girlsî.

I received a timely email prior as an opportunity to share any discussion points so that time would be efficiently managed, a very thoughtful gesture.

As a new writer and from a nonliterary back ground, I found the style and content of the consultation very approachable. In fact, the information was shared in a manner quite familiar to me as a physician leader. With healthcare improvements, we strive to make interventions through ìSMARTî goals. Erica did just that.

Erica was specific (S) as to my concerns (commercial viability for concept, genre refinement, voice improvement). She provided measurable (M) ways to gauge my progress (step by step for how to narrow the narrative distance for the YA audience). She provided achievable (A) means for success (suggested content-targeted publishers, the must do close of narrative distance and to keep up the good pacing and intriguing concepts). She explained the relevance (R) of certain aspects of the writing and publishing process. Finally, the time bound (T) nature of this industry requires one to work hard and be dedicated and prepared. The ten minutes we shared was a master class in how to share and reap as much as possible in a small window of time.

I feel much better prepared as I travel along my writing journey. Please share these thoughts in any way you deem helpful. I will add that writers really need to think about not what they want to say but what they need to hear. Time with a content expert is a rare and precious thing, treat it as such as you will be rewarded.

Keep up the fabulous work and services.

Sincerely yours,

Jill Williams

Work with Erica

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.