About Glass Elevator

What this is

Glass Elevatorhelps writers find the right literary agent for their book. For every agent we track, we try to answer the three questions that actually matter when you’re about to query: what do they represent, are they open right now, and how do you submit. We pull those answers together from public information, rewrite them into a single clear profile, and link you straight to the agent’s own submission page so you can act on it.

Alongside the directory we publish plain-English querying guides and editorial articles about how the querying process really works, and a directory of publishers that take submissions without an agent for writers taking a different route.

Who makes it

Glass Elevator is made by Iggy, its founder & editor. Iggy is an author and lifelong literature enthusiast based in California. After years of chasing agent information scattered across dozens of out-of-date pages, he built Glass Elevator to make finding the right literary agent faster, clearer, and less of a guessing game for fellow writers.

It’s a small, independent project — not a literary agency, not a publisher, and not owned by one. That independence is the point: nobody can pay to be listed, to rank higher, or to change what a profile says.

How profiles are made

We gather publicly available information about each agent and synthesize it into an original, rewritten profile — we don’t copy and paste from anywhere. That synthesis is AI-assisted and human-reviewed: software helps us assemble and draft from the source material at scale, and a person edits and checks each page for accuracy, tone, and the small but crucial qualifiers (an agent who wants picture books from author-illustrators only, say) before it’s published. We explain the whole process in detail on how we build our agent profiles, the criteria we use on how we evaluate agents, and where the information comes from on our sources.

How we stay accurate

Agents open and close to queries constantly, and their tastes shift. We date what we can, refresh status regularly, and tell you when a reading is getting old rather than pretending it’s live. We still ask every writer to confirm an agent’s current guidelines on the agent’s own site before submitting. If something on a page is wrong or out of date — especially if you’re the agent — please tell usand we’ll fix it. Our full standards, including corrections and updates, live in the editorial policy.

How it’s funded

Glass Elevatoris free to use and supported by advertising. Ads are kept separate from editorial judgment: advertising never determines who is listed, how agents are described, or how they’re ranked. We also link to some third-party services and may note where a relationship exists.

Questions, corrections, or just want to say hello? Get in touch. — Iggy, Glass Elevator