Jane Chun

Jane Chun joined Transatlantic in 2023 after four years at Janklow & Nesbit Associates. Prior to her time at J&N, she worked on a freelance project for HG Literary and interned at Writers House and Maximum Films & Management.

Before entering the publishing world, Jane attended NYU where she majored in History and minored in Business of Entertainment, Media, and Technology; Creative Writing; and Spanish. She returned to NYU shortly after graduation and a brief stint at Asian CineVision and the Asian American International Film Festival (AAIFF) to receive her M.S. in Publishing with distinction. She is a native New Yorker.

Jane is particularly interested in stories that center marginalized communities and prose that is cinematic and atmospheric with good rhythm. In both fiction and nonfiction, she is drawn towards compelling, fresh voices that make her feel as though the writer is in the room with her, telling her their story with intimacy as if they were already acquainted. Regardless of how plot-driven a story is, characters with rich inner worlds and emotional depth are a must for her.

She is interested in literary, upmarket, and commercial fiction across adult, MG, and YA and select nonfiction. She is also seeking graphic novels/nonfiction. In the fiction space, she is open to contemporary, historical, fantasy, sci-fi, speculative, and horror. In nonfiction, she is looking for memoirs; narrative nonfiction; history; investigative journalism; books about nature, climate, and science; and books about food, travel, pop culture, and cultural criticism.

She is not the right person for prescriptive nonfiction, self-help, religion/spirituality nonfiction, romance (see the “what I’m NOT seeking” section on her website for exceptions), law enforcement/military/intelligence mysteries or thrillers, hard sci-fi, novels in verse, novellas, poetry, essay collections, short story collections, picture books, board books, chapter books, or screenplays.

Please read her MSWL for her likes and dislikes before submitting a query: https://jane-chun.com/mswl. 

Please send the following through Query Manager.

If you are having difficulty using Query Manager, you can query Jane by email (queryjane@transatlanticagency.com).

Please do NOT submit your query through both methods; the duplicate query will not be answered. Queries sent by any other method will be deleted unread.

For email queries, include the book title, category/genre, word count (or estimated page count for graphic novels or graphic nonfiction), and your author bio. 

Fiction: a brief introduction, a synopsis, and the first ten pages. For email queries, please include all text in the body of the email, not as an attachment

Nonfiction: a brief introduction, a full outline, and the first ten pages of the manuscript. For email queries, please include all text in the body of the email, not as an attachment

Graphic novels/nonfiction: a brief introduction, a synopsis/outline, and at least five illustrated pages with text. If you do not have five pages, you can send ten script pages and some sample art instead. For email queries, please attach the sample pages/art as a PDF or include a link to view the material online