Welcome!

Handspun Literary Agency is a boutique, full-service literary agency based in San Diego, California. Founder and president Courtney Miller-Callihan has more than twenty years’ experience in book publishing, first in the contracts and subsidiary rights departments at Penguin Random House, and then at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates, before founding Handspun in 2016. Our team of agents prides itself on a hands-on, long-term approach to our clients’ careers.

Handspun’s list of authors includes award-winning, bestselling, and critically lauded writers of romance, historical fiction, women’s fiction, mystery, science fiction and fantasy, young adult novels, and nonfiction. Hybrid authors are welcomed.