Nancy Yost works with a wide variety of writers of commercial fiction, specializing in crime novels; thrillers, mysteries, suspense; historical fiction and historical suspense; and women’s fiction of all kinds.
She represents many New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors, including thriller author Linda Castillo, internationally bestselling and award-winning crime novelist, Deborah Crombie, bestselling and acclaimed romance authors including Stephanie Laurens, Loretta Chase, Suzanne Enoch, Beverly Jenkins, Karen Hawkins and Victoria Alexander; paranormal/urban fantasy bestsellers, Jeaniene Frost and Ilona Andrews, along with bestselling mystery authors, Miranda James, Victoria Thompson, Monica Ferris, and Tamar Myers; and journalist, novelist, and collaborator, Valerie Frankel.
She looks for complex, engrossing, character- and voice-driven reads, and has a fondness for a good ghost story, southern fiction, historical fiction, atmosphere, intelligence, humor, and adorable (and not so adorable) animals. Her nonfiction tastes lean to social history and natural science.