Greetings and happy autumn to everyone.

Things have been a bit on the busy side for the two of us lately, and we’re sorry we haven’t been around that much to fill you in on what’s been happening with us here at Ex Libris as well as on what’s brewing in the publishing community at large. Speaking of the latter, we’ve resurfaced from our sea of reference tomes, coffee cups, and red chicken-scratch in the margins to tell you about an exciting development: the opening of Portland, Oregon’s newest full-service literary agency!

Loose Leaf Literary Agency is headed up by publishing professionals Casey Woodworth and Kristen Svenson. The agency launched officially just a few weekends ago at this year’s Wordstock Festival. Already generating a lot of curious and enthusiastic talk in the Portland literary world, these ladies have big plans and even bigger stores of expertise in the fields of editorial, rights and contract negotiation, publicity, and more to share with their clientele.

We are so excited to see Loose Leaf breaking out onto both the local and national/international publishing stages, and can’t wait to see where the future takes Loose Leaf and their authors.

Welcome, ladies!

Loose Leaf Literary Agency is currently accepting fiction, nonfiction, and poetry submissions. Contact Loose Leaf Literary Agency at their website here, and like them on Facebook here.

Best,

S&S