
Najla Mamou
Savvy Literary
Najla brings an excitement to read everything that comes in to Savvy Literary Services. As a self-taught writer, she combed through the endless resources, from online articles, podcasts, videos, conferences, and books, to enhance her skillset and help other writers. Her favorite part is the editing and marketing side, which she admits garners a few strange looks from most writers. She’s an avid reader and loves great first chapters, immersive world building, deep character profiles, and well-rounded dialogue. In fiction, bring her your rags to riches, coming of age, secret babies, hidden marriages, complicated relationships, family sagas and dramas, and anything that happens on a road trip, traveling or living the expat life. In nonfiction, she devours untold stories of people in history who were bold and daring for their time. Prior to joining Savvy Literary, she worked as a project manager for fifteen years. In that role, she took high-level ideas and transformed them into strategic and operational deliverables, on time and within budget. She’ll be applying that skillset to lead and shepherd fiction and non-fiction novels to book shelves across the world. Looking for: Fiction: Historical fiction, women’s fiction, commercial and literary fiction, romance, and some Young Adult. Nonfiction: Narrative nonfiction, biographies, memoirs, as well as select economics and business when centered around a town or city or country.
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Fiction Genres of Interest: Historical, Multi-Cultural, Mystery, Romance, Suspense/Thriller, Upmarket Women’s Fiction, Young Adult, and select Literary Fiction. Please send us the following: Your best elevator pitch in a query letter including title, genre, and word count of your manuscript Synopsis of the work, preferably one to five pages long First three chapters of your manuscript Detailed author bio including a list of publications to date and sales history of previous titles Detailed marketing plan including social media accounts, link to your website, and all professional and personal organizations Non-Fiction Genres of Interest: Memoir, Narrative Non-Fiction, Biography, and True Crime. Please send us the following: Your best elevator pitch in a query letter. Be sure to include title, genre, and word count of your manuscript. A polished and detailed book proposal which should include: Book overview Target audience statement Marketing plan including social media accounts, link to your website, and all professional and personal organizations Competitive analysis Author bio including a list of publications to date and sales history of previous titles Chapter outline Chapter descriptions One to three sample chapters