Jacqueline S. Hackett
Before founding Literary Works, Jacqueline S. Hackett was an agent at the Watkins/Loomis Agency, and an assistant and associate agent at the Faith Childs Literary Agency. She received her publishing certificate from the Columbia University Publishing Program, her law degree from Duke University and her undergraduate degree from Georgetown University
(Accounting and Finance).
Before becoming an agent, Jacqueline spent several years working outside of publishing, as a corporate/contracts attorney, so she brings her strong negotiation and problem solving skills she learned there plus a lifetime love of reading to her work as an agent. Jacqueline is a member of the Association of Author’s Representatives.
Some of her recent sales are: a photo essay book Daughters of Men: Portraits of African American Women and Their Fathers by Rachel Vassel (Amistad/HarperCollins November 2007), Cinescopes: What Your Favorite Movies Say About You by Risa Williams and Ezra Werb (Quirk Books November 2007), Prince: How He Revolutionalized Rock and Roll and Survived (St. Martins Fall 2008); Saviors or Sellouts: The Promises and Perils of Black Conservatism, From Booker T. Washington to Condoleezza Rice by Christopher Bracey (Beacon Press January 2008); Pecking Order by Omar Tyree (Simon & Schuster July 2008); A Spring Without Bees (Lyons Press 2008); Mad as Hell: How Angry BlackMen are Changing America (New Press 2008); Darker Mask: Superheroes of Color (Tor Books 2008); Girls Inc. Presents: Amazing Girls (Adams Media 2008).
What works for Jacqueline: Commercial and serious literary non fiction:
Humor like Jennifer Lancaster’s memoir Bright Lights, Big Ass: A Self-Indulgent, Surly, Ex-Sorority Girl’s Guide to Why it Often Sucks in the City, or Who are These Idiots and Why Do They All Live Next Door to Me?
Book length projects on the kinds of topics featured in the New York Times Science Times section and Psychology Today like Never Shower in a Thunderstorm: Surprising Facts and Misleading Myths About Our Health and the World We Live In by Anahad O’Connor and Deborah Tannen’s You’re Wearing That?: Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation, The Female Brain, Blink, Twinkie Deconstructed: My Journey to Discover How the Ingredients Found in Processed Foods Are Grown, Mined (Yes, Mined), and Manipulated Into What America Eats.
Investigative journalism like Tulia: Race, Cocaine and Corruption in a Small Texas Town
Pop Culture
Gift books like The Bachelor’s Cat by Lynn Hoffman, The Book of Answers, and Cinescopes: What Your Favorite Movies Reveal About You.
African American: like Volunteer Slavery by Jill Nelson
I would love to find a lawyer who has written a general interest non fiction book.
What Doesn’t Work for Jacqueline: genre fiction, true crime, fantasy, poetry, experimental fiction, or romance. I only represent short story collections and children’s works for established clients.
Where You Can Find Jacqueline:
June 08, Los Angeles, BEA/Writer’s Digest Agent/Editor Panel and Pitch Slam
August 08, Atlanta, National Book Club Conference
August 08, Maui Writer’s Conference
November 08, Antigua & Barbuda International Literary Festival