Rica Allannic

Submissions: open

David Black Literary Agency – Literary Agent

https://www.davidblackagency.com/rica-allannic

Rica Allannic, a literary agent with the David Black Agency with more than twenty years of publishing experience, specializes in helping authors from diverse backgrounds tell the stories that are important to them. A graduate of New York City public schools and Yale University, Rica worked in professional kitchens before joining the editorial team at Scribner (Simon & Schuster) and then moving on to Clarkson Potter (Penguin Random House), where, as VP and Executive Editor, she acquired and edited cookbooks, narrative nonfiction, and gift books. Rica brings her love of food and everything French as well as her Puerto Rican heritage to her role as a literary agent and uses her unique editorial experience to help clients shape their projects and to advocate for them at every stage of the publishing process. She is interested in cooking, narrative and prescriptive nonfiction, popular culture, history, and science projects.

Subject Focus

Non Fiction Cooking
Non Fiction Health
Non Fiction History Politics Current Affairs
Non Fiction Lifestyle
Non Fiction Memoir
Non Fiction Narrative
Non Fiction Pop Culture
Non Fiction Science
Non Fiction General Other Non Fiction

Experience

9

Years of Industry
Experience

2017

Member Since

Submission Requirements

Query Rica by email. She is only accepting adult nonfiction at this time. Please summarize your book idea and then paste your proposal into the body of your email (no attachments, please).