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Jana Burson

About Jana

Jana has 12+ years of experience working in the publishing industry. She started out in 2003 working publicity at Thomas Nelson Publishers. By 2005 she was the Director of Publicity for the Hachette Book Group, Nashville Division where she oversaw the orchestration and execution of campaigns for a large number of New York Times bestselling titles. Rounding out her experience prior to becoming a literary agent, Jana transitioned to Acquisitions Editor in 2010 for the Hachette Book Group and had the pleasure of acquiring and editing multiple bestselling authors. In 2014, Jana left Hachette and launched The Burson Agency, which has provided both literary agent services and various consulting services.

In 2016, Jana joined The Christopher Ferebee agency and is excited to continue representing inspiring and life-changing books from men and women that want to impact culture one heart at a time. 

Query Instructions

As a small agency, we focus our efforts on a very select group of authors. Our primary focus and attention is always on existing client relationships. But we are looking for the right authors with important ideas. We do represent a variety of genres in non-fiction and fiction, but do not represent children’s books, academic works or poetry.

Only submissions made that follow these guidelines will be considered. Please do not attempt to query the agency via social media or telephone. It is also not necessary to submit multiple queries to individual agents.

Please submit the following information in the body of your email, with the subject SUBMISSION:

Name 
Telephone Number
Publishing History
Sales History
Referral Source

Please attach to your email a query letter, as well as a proposal for the specific project you are seeking an agent for. If you do not know how to craft a query letter or proposal, there are multiple sources available online through a simple search of “literary query letter” and “book proposal.” While you may submit a designed proposal in PDF format, we ask that you include a Word version of your proposal as well.

We will make every effort to respond to your query within four weeks.

PLEASE NOTE, we do not accept hardcopy proposals sent via US Mail unless specifically requested in that format.

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