Erin Niumata
Folio Literary Management LLC
My Manuscript Wish List®
My Manuscript Wish List® Items
Looking for commercial nonfiction, from prescriptive and practical to narrative and memoir, as well as a select list of fiction including mysteries, rom-coms, and commercial women’s fiction.
Erin Niumata has been in publishing for almost three decades. She started as an editorial assistant at Simon and Schuster in the Touchstone/Fireside division for several years; then moved over to Harper Collins as an editor, and then she went to Avalon Books as the Editorial Director. Erin has edited many authors including Leon Uris, Stuart Woods, Erica Jong, Brenda Maddox, Lawrence Otis Graham, Joan Rivers, and more. She has represented NY Times bestselling cowboy romance writer Carolyn Brown, Discovery Channel’s Fast N Loud, North America, and Cash Cab; TLC’s The Cake Boss, Diesel Brothers, and Extreme Couponing; Animal Planet’s Too Cute, Finding Bigfoot, River Monsters, and Puppy Bowl; NASA’s Above and Beyond; Science Channel’s How It’s Made; Smithsonian Institute’s The Red Planet, inspirational speaker Josh Shipp, viral content creator Tyler Merritt, skin care expert and co-founder of SoKo Glam Charlotte Cho, Hello Fears internet sensation Michelle Poler, Average People Problems founder Sam Matt, chef/baker Grant Melton, humorist Jen Lancaster, humorist Jennifer Mann, blogger Anna Lind Thomas, and many more. She’s worked on multiple NY Times Bestsellers.
Fun facts about me:
Grew up in the Bahamas
Lives in London, England
Holds a MA in Creative Writing
Researching: Doctorate in “Women’s Fiction” and the evolution of the female protagonist literature
Cancer survivor
Submission Guidelines
Submissions should be emailed to erin@foliolitmanagement.com
I am open during February 2024. Please submit queries here: https://QueryManager.com/ErinNiumata
Vital Info
Favorite sub-genres:
"Big Idea/Think", #ownvoices, 'big think', Adult, Adult Rom Com, Adventure, BIPOC, Biography & Memoir, Book Club, Books about books, Chick Lit, Chicklit, Commercial Women's Fiction, Commercial adult fiction, Commercial and Literary, Contemporary Romance, Cozy Mystery, Cozy mysteries, Dark Female Friendships, Diverse Protagonists, Domestic Suspense/Thriller, Female Friendships, Feminism, Feminist, First Person, High Concept, High-Concept Literary Commercial Fiction, Inspirational Memoir, LGBTQ+, Literary Fiction, Literary Thriller, Magic Realism, Magical Realism, Marginalized Voices, Minority Voices, Modern Dating, Modern Retellings of Fairy Tales, Mothers and Daughters, Multicultural, Multicultural Romance, Multicultural and Diverse Thriller and Mystery, Mysteries, Mystery / Crime, Narrative Nonfiction, Neurodiversity, Pop Culture, Relationships, Rom-com, RomCom, Romance, Romantic Comedy, Romantic Drama, Romantic Suspense, Romantic Thriller, Self-help, Shakespeare Retellings, Strong Females, Thriller, Thrillers, Upmarket Commercial Fiction, Upmarket Fiction, Upmarket Women's Fiction, Wellness, Women's Fiction, Women's Issues, award-winners!, beach reads, book club fiction, comedy, coming of age, commercial, commerical women's fiction, contemporary women's fiction, diverse and own voices, diverse heroines, diverse voices, domestic thrillers, dramedy, enemies to lovers, friendship, friendship stories, high concept fiction, literary mystery, literary suspense, mystery, narrative non-fiction, rom-coms, romantic suspense/mystery, traditional mysteries, upmarket/book club with female protagonist, witchcraft
I’d like the next…
Looking for commercial nonfiction, from prescriptive and practical to narrative and memoir, as well as a select list of fiction including mysteries, rom-coms, and commercial women’s fiction.
I’d love to find the next:
Yellowface
7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
How To Kill Your Family
Lessons in Chemistry
The Maid
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Black Cake
Happy Place
