2025 QueryFest Agents / Editors


QueryFest sessions are by appointment only Wednesday, June 18, through Friday, June 20. As agents and editors are confirmed to attend QueryFest 2025 at ThrillerFest XX, they will be added below. We are busy building our publishing industry expert list to provide QueryFest attendees with the most meaningful one-on-one consulting experience. Our hope is the feedback received from agents and editors will help refine attendee’s query package to get attention from their sought after agent, or dream publisher.

Speaking of feedback, here are some of the sonnets from last year’s QueryFest participants:

  • “Queryfest was the most impactful and valuable part of Thrillerfest that I attended.”
  • “The best thing about Q-Fest is the personal connection . . . the Agents and Editors who participate are top shelf.”
  • “The whole conference was wonderful and QueryFest was a highlight for sure.”
  • “QueryFest is my favorite program because I received real feedback from agents who had actually read a few pages.”
  • “I had a great experience with QueryFest and thought it was really well run.”
  • “The conversation I had with Joe Brosnan, Grove Atlantic, was incredibly helpful. We were able to converse about my characters and the development of my novel. He helped me fine tune my pitch. The results of this conversation is evident in five editors (when I pitched at pitchfest), asking for my manuscript.”
  • “QueryFest was great, had several very meaningful and helpful meetings, learned a lot in those short meetings, no wasted time, spaced out very nicely.”

We will begin posting our confirmed agent/editor list for QueryFest 2025 soon. Please check back frequently for updates. Do give you an idea of the agents and editors chosen for QueryFest, please take a look at last year’s roster of experts.

 


QUERYFEST 2025 ATTENDING EXPERTS

Keep Checking back as we’ll be adding more QueryFest experts soon!

Joe Brosnan
Grove Atlantic
www.GroveAtlantic.com

John DeDakis
Independent Editor
https://johndedakis.com

Jessica Faust
Bookends Literary
www.bookendsliterary.com

Renée Fountain
Gandolfo, Helin & Fountain Literary Management
www.ghliterary.com

Doug Grad
Doug Grad Literary Agency
www.dgliterary.com

Ronald Gerber
Lowenstein Associates
https://lowensteinassociates.com/

Jamie Levine
Kevin Anderson & Associates
www.ka-writing.com/

Sandy Lu
Book Wurm Literary Agency
https://www.bookwyrmlit.com/

Jill Marr
Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency
https://dijkstraagency.com/

Gina Panettieri
Talcott Notch Literary Agency
https://talcottnotch.net/

Zoe Quentin
Zoe Quentin Lit
https:zoequentin.com/

Gretchen Stelter
Sourcebooks
www.sourcebooks.com

Jess Taylor
Revizion Editorial
www.revizion.net

Alexa Wejko
Soho Press
https://sohopress.com

Carter Wilson
Unbound Writer
www.carterwilson.com