Sandy Lu

(Pitching & Marketing Weekend Lectures: Pitching to a Literary Agent, Part 1 and Pitching to a Literary Agent, Part 2)

Sandy Lu founded Book Wyrm Literary Agency after working as a literary agent for more than a decade at other boutique agencies, including Peter Rubie Literary Agency, Anderson Literary Management, and most notably, the L. Perkins Agency.

Born and raised in Taiwan, Sandy’s family moved to New York in her teens, so she understands the struggles of immigrants and those who straddle two cultures all too well.

Sandy holds BAs in psychology and sociology from Queens College, with minors in music, business, and Japanese.  Prior to becoming an agent, she attended the Ph.D. Program in Social and Personality Psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center and worked as a business/operations manager in the theater industry. 

Sandy’s areas of study and work experience greatly inform her interest in submissions.  She is seeking stories that will draw her in with a unique voice, make her miss her bedtime with a thrilling plot, and characters that will stay with her long after she turns the last page. Bonus points if you can make her laugh out loud or unable to hold back tears in public. Sandy especially loves historical fiction and anything dark, twisted, or with a supernatural bent.

In fiction, Sandy is looking for literary and commercial fiction, mystery, thriller, suspense, science fiction, fantasy, horror, historical fiction, women’s fiction, and young adult fiction. 

In non-fiction, she is looking for narrative non-fiction, history, biography, science, business, psychology, pop culture, and food writing.