Full Agent Profile: Barbara Lowenstein

Barbara Lowenstein

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• Barbara is currently looking for writers who have a platform and are leading experts in their field, including business, women’s issues, psychology, health, science and social issues, and is particularly interested in strong new voices in both adult fiction and narrative nonfiction.
  
• Kathleen is currently looking for children's books, specifically young adult, middle grade and chapter books, both fiction and non-fiction. She does not represent picture books.

• Screenplays or picture books.
  

• http://www.lowensteinassociates.com/submission.html
• By e-mail: Please send us a one-page query letter, along with the first ten pages pasted in the body of the message (if fiction; for non-fiction, please send only a query letter), by email to assistant(at)bookhaven.com Please put the word QUERY and the title of your project in the subject field of your email and address it (the query) to the agent of your choice. Please do not send an attachment as the message will be deleted without being read and no reply will be sent. We reply to all queries (which follow the guidelines) and generally send a response within 2-4 weeks. There is no e-mail auto-responder at this time. If you put QUERY in the subject line, the filter will keep it in the right folder.
• By mail: For Fiction: Mail a query letter, short synopsis, first chapter and a S.A.S.E (Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope). For Nonfiction: Mail a query letter, proposal, if available, or else a project overview and a S.A.S.E (Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope). To address as listed. Please note, if you do not include a S.A.S.E., we will not be able to respond to your submission. Please allow 4-6 weeks for our response.
• Please do not call to pitch your query or fax queries.

• http://www.lowensteinassociates.com/agent_1.html
• For almost four decades, Barbara has represented the international bestselling author M. C. Beaton, known as the "Queen of Cozy Mysteries." Beaton’s two mystery series HAMISH MACBETH (Grand Central) and AGATHA RAISIN (St. Martin's) have been translated into 15 languages. Mammoth Screen and Free at Last have recently produced a 2-hour TV pilot of AGATHA RAISIN to be aired shortly on Sky 1 HD in the UK. The HAMISH MACBETH series has been optioned by Acorn Productions Limited.