ZSH Literary Agency
Veralux Media’s sister company, Zachary Shuster Harmsworth is a full-service literary agency with its main offices in New York City and a second office in Boston, Massachusetts. The agency represents literary and commercial fiction, memoirs, biography, history, science, narrative non-fiction and prescriptive books in the areas of business, health, relationships, parenting and general psychology. Above all, ZSH Literary is known for working with high quality authors who create deeply intelligent, beautifully crafted works intended for a wide reading audience. ZSH Literary represents first novelists as well as established writers of fiction such as Ha Jin, author of Waiting, the New York Times bestselling novel and winner of the 2000 National Book Award. In the area of non-fiction, ZSH Literary has many journalist clients writing for a broad range of publications including The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, GQ, Vogue, Talk, TIME, Newsweek, The Boston Globe, the London Daily Telegraph, the LA Times, and many others.
ZSH Literary has many clients in the academy, including professors at Harvard, Yale, the University of Massachusetts, the University of Michigan, Boston University, Stanford, UCLA, and at other colleges and universities across the country. ZSH Literary also represents authors who are well-known personalities in the music, entertainment and broadcasting fields.
The agents of Zachary Shuster Harmsworth are known throughout the industry for their dedication to their clients, offering them close and meaningful editorial guidance and helping them garner substantial financial arrangements with publishers. ZSH Literary is highly selective in deciding which projects to take on, thus allowing agents at ZSH Literary to serve clients thoughtfully and consistently.
In addition to placing manuscripts with all the major publishers in the United States—Random House, Simon & Schuster, Penguin Putnam, HarperCollins, Little, Brown, Time Warner, etc.— ZSH Literary sells its authors’ works directly in the United Kingdom and through a network of first-rate sub-agents in territories throughout the World.
ZSH Literary also helps authors sell their works to Hollywood for television as well as motion picture adaptation. Every year, ZSH Literary places numerous works with large film studios such as Warner Bros., Universal, and Fox and with major television networks such as CBS, ABC, and NBC and cable networks such as FX, Lifetime, and HBO.