Storm Literary Agency

Boutique literary agency representing quality literature from exceptional authors and illustrators

First, there was a  teacher who loved books almost as much as she loved little children. Then, there was an artist who loved pirates, almost as much as he loved cats. As it turns out, that artist could also write, and that teacher loved the pirate stories he wrote. And she shared those stories with the children she taught. The children loved the pirate stories; they also loved the cats. They wanted more stories with pirates and cats. They also wanted an adventure. And the stories gave them so many adventures. And that is that: Storm Literary Agency came about because it needed to. The children requested it. And so did the cats. 

Storm Literary Agency welcomes submissions from unique and talented authors and illustrators, those who are not afraid to embrace their capacity to teach, to entertain, to engage and to honor people, young and old, who hopefully, will be changed by the work represented here.

Lela Nargi

 

Twitter: @LelaNargi • Website: lelanargi.com

Lela Nargi is an author and veteran journalist living in Brooklyn, NY. Her first picture book, The Honeybee Man (Schwartz and Wade, 2011, illustrated by Kyrsten Brooker), was a Junior Library Guild Selection, A Kirkus starred review, a NSTA "Outstanding Book", a Bank Street "Best Book of the Year", a 2012 Cook Prize Honoree, a Cornell University/Spoons Across America Agricultural Literacy 2013 & 2015 read-aloud pick, and a First Book. 

She published Karl's New Beak in 2019 (Capstone, illustrated by Harriet Popham), which was a California Reading Association Eureka honoree and an NSTA/CBC best STEM book of 2020; additionally, it made Betsy Bird’s 2019 School Library Journal list of best science and nature books, and The Nonfiction Detective’s 2019 roundup.

Lela is also the author of Absolute Expert: Dinosaurs and Absolute Expert: Volcanoes (National Geographic, 2018); Elephants on the Move (Capstone, 2022); The Book of Bees (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2022); Day and Night (Bonnier Books UK/Templar, 2023); and several science book series for  Capstone, Jump! Library, and Amicus. 2024 will bring the publication of The Lonely Goose (Random House Studio, 2025, illustrated by Anne Hunter) and Drift and Cling (Bonnier Books UK/Templar). Sleeping Bear Press will release Miss Betti, What Is This? in 2025, with illustrations by Kristen Uroda.

 As a journalist, Lela writes extensively for adults about food and agriculture systems and social justice issues. She’s also written about science for kids in publications Ask, Highlights, MSN Kids, Muse, Odyssey, PittMed, Scholastic’s Storyworks, Science News for Students, and Washington Post KidsPost. Find her at lelanargi.com.