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What Rick is looking for
Rick’s areas of interest include self-help, pop culture and music, memoir, history, science, politics and social justice, narrative food writing, and faith. He is also interested in select true crime, commercial fiction, and psychological/horror thrillers and diverse voices in all categories. He has extensive experience in children’s books, having overseen two of the nation’s top children’s publishers: Simon & Schuster and Candlewick Press and represents illustrators and children’s authors writing fiction and non-fiction from picture books through YA.
Notable sales & clients
- Max Einstein: The Genius Experiment by James Patterson
- I Am Enough by Grace Byers and Keturah Bobo
- Getting Back to Happy by Marc Chernoff and Angel Chernoff
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Hear from Rick: interviews & talks
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- 🎙 Giuseppe Castellano's Podcast Conversation with Rick Richter — The Illustration Department
- ▶ Rick Richter, Senior Partner at Aevitas Creative, talks about the process of querying agents — YouTube
- Interview with Agent Rick Richter — Johnell DeWitt (2016)
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Frequently asked questions
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What genres does Rick Richter represent?
Rick Richter represents Young Adult, Picture Books, Thriller, Crime, Horror, Commercial Fiction, Memoir, Nonfiction.
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