Lauren MacLeod
Aevitas Creative Management
My Manuscript Wish List®
Desires:
At the moment, I’m actively building my cookbook and food writing list, and I want it all– think of me for everything from academic books about foodways to narrative-nonfiction about food history to unique and ambitious debut cookbooks. I am also searching for the next great piece of literary true crime; Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil was one of the first adult nonfiction books to grab me, and I’ll always be looking for books that compare favorably!
Bio:
Lauren MacLeod is a Nashville-based senior literary agent with Aevitas Creative Management. Lauren’s primary interests are cookbooks, food writing, narrative nonfiction, pop-culture, true crime, memoir, young adult fiction and nonfiction, and middle-grade novels. She serves on the Association of American Literary Agents board of directors, where she sits on the copyright and contracts committees and co-chairs the communications committee. Before joining ACM, she was named Vice President of The Strothman Agency. She graduated cum laude from Emerson College, receiving a BFA in Writing, Literature, and Publishing.
Personal Website: Lauren E MacLeod.com/
Fun facts about me:
Our dog is named after the man who helped officiate our Las Vegas wedding ceremony: Elvis.
Submission Guidelines
Submissions should be emailed to https://querymanager.com/query/Lmacleod
At this time I am only accepting submissions for food writing, cookbooks, pop-culture and true crime.
I currently only consider MG & YA, memoir, history, and narrative nonfiction via referral.
Vital Info
Favorite sub-genres:
Diversity, Feminism, Food Writing, LGBTQ+
I’d like the next…
James Beard Winner!
My favorites include…
TV: Yellowjackets, Succession, Broad City, The Crown, UnREAL, Veep, Mad Men, A woefully incompletely list of books I’ve loved enough to demand other people I love read them, in no particular order: A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers; I’ll Be Gone in the Dark;The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater; Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret; The Trees by Percival Everett; Mexican Gothic Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente; People Who Eat Darkness
