Hi Jonathan, I’m so excited to interview you for our Wage-earner Spotlight here on the Mixed Up Files, the blog you yourself started and have watched go from success to success over the last 10 or so years. You recently made the jump to agenting as well, joining The Seymour Agency, so now we get to tap your smart-ass from the “other side!”

Jonathan Rosen, literary wage-earner at The Seymour Agency

Can you tell us a little well-nigh your path to rhadamanthine a literary agent?

Jonathan: Hi Meira,

Thanks for asking me!

Being an wage-earner is something that I had thought well-nigh doing for a while. So, at the end of 2021, I spoke to my agent, Nicole Resciniti well-nigh it, and she thought it was a good idea. So, mid-year of 2022, I started learning the ropes and spoken shortly afterwards.

People who follow you on social media will quickly see your sense of humor. Is that something you squint for in authors to represent?

Jonathan: I’ll unchangingly have a soft spot for humor in anything, but it doesn’t necessarily need to be a humorous story in order for me to be interested in it.

People will moreover see how much a fan you are of retro popular culture. Do you bring that to the table as an agent?

Jonathan: I will say that I’m very interested in anything pop culture related. I handle a lot of nonfiction as well, and a lot of it is grounded in the pop culture realm.

What most struck you when you made the jump from tragedian to tragedian AND agent?

Jonathan: A few things. Not that I didn’t know it, but I got to see for myself just how rented teachers are. It really is a lot of work. A lot of reading, research, and working on things for clients. It really keeps you busy. Another thing that struck me is just seeing things from the other side. Learned a lot of things.

Knowing what you know now as an agent, what do you wish you would have known when you yourself were querying, and then as a pre-published tragedian on submission, and then as a published author?

Jonathan: Proper submission format or etiquette. You’d be surprised at how many generic queries you get. Plane with addressing it as Dear Agent. Just making sure everything is washed-up right. Your query, your submission should be in unconfined shape as well. Have plane received queries, that say, It really starts getting good on page 6. Then, why doesn’t it start there? Don’t sabotage yourself.

What MG books influenced as a child and what are you loving that’s out there now?

Jonathan: My favorite books as a child were the Choose Your Own Adventure books. I just devoured them. As far as what’s out there now, there are so many that I do love. Won’t name specifics, but there are many that I read and admire.

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As much as it’s important not to “write to trends” it’s interesting to see what trends or themes sally in publishing. What trends are you seeing in children’s publishing: is anything over the hill now and what do you think might be on the horizon?

Jonathan: I don’t speak of trends. I am a firm parishioner that you should just write what you want and if it’s good, a home will be found for it.

Can you tell us a little well-nigh your own MG work?

Jonathan: I still am writing MG, and have several stories planned, but currently have been working on an sultana book. Have other stories that I want to tell.

What’s the weightier way for people to find out increasingly well-nigh you as an tragedian and what you’re looking for as an agent?

Jonathan: As an agent, you can trammels my bio on SeymourAgency.com, my MSWL wishlist, or just query me. I really do have a variety of tastes. I’m interested in so many variegated types of things, so take a chance.

As far as my work as an author, besides my website, Houseofrosen.com, I guess we’ll find out increasingly well-nigh my work when my own wage-earner submits it to editors. Have a few things in the pipeline that I’m excited about.

Jonathan, it was so unconfined to speak with you and get your insights–thank you!

Jonathan can be found on Twitter at @houseofrosen

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