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Not So Secret Agent is an email newsletter all about the inside scoop on cookbook publishing from senior literary agent, Sally Ekus (that’s me!). Make sure we never miss the chance to connect.
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Senior literary agent specializing in cookbooks and select non-fiction. Writer of The Not So Secret Agent Substack newsletter. Taco enthusiast. Mom. Improviser. she/her
Hi! I wrote The Last Ferry Out, Reese's Book Club pick We Were Never Here, The Spare Room, The Herd & The Lost Night. I live with my girlfriend in NYC & the Catskills. In my Substack, I demystify publishing & get vulnerable about author life.
Creator of the Cookbookery Collective Cookbook newsletter, author of The Foreign Correspondent's Wife—a historical mystery out Oct 20—and food director at Real Simple.
Devoted culinary image maker / self proclaimed food weirdo with a ferocious passion for cooking, gardening, and cold plunging, likely to be photographing a cookbook right now.
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