About Sally:
Sally Ekus is a Senior Literary Agent at JVNLA. She leads The Ekus Group, a boutique culinary and lifestyle division that in January 2024 merged with JVNLA after a long history between the two literary agencies. Sally represents a wide range of culinary, health, wellness, and lifestyle talent, from first-time cookbook authors to seasoned chefs, RDs, professional food writers and bloggers, and internet and YouTube personalities. From concept to contract, she has brokered over 300 book deals with top publishers including Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Hachette, Simon & Schuster, and numerous indie publishers. To honor The Ekus Group’s 40th anniversary in April 2022, she launched a self-paced online course called How to Write a Cookbook. Its bite-sized curriculum distills 4 decades of cookbook publishing knowledge into less than 3 hours.
Show Notes & Mentions:
Proposal Guidelines: https://ekusgroup.com/cookbookacademy
How to Write a Cookbook course (with 20% off code for listeners!)
How to be a cookbook author FB group
Other Mentions on the Show:
Publishers Marketplace
Mama Teav's Hot Garlic Chili Crisp
Cookbooks:
First Generation: Recipes from My Taiwanese-American Home
Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts
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