By appointment
Office Hours
Literary consultations with Jessica Kasmer-Jacobs

Strategy calls, pitch sessions, and manuscript reviews for writers at any stage.

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Literary Consultations

Office Hours

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Office Hours offers one-on-one sessions with literary agent and editor Jessica Kasmer-Jacobs. Sessions are open to writers at any stage. Places are limited and subject to availability.

Strategy Call

A conversation about your project and where to go next, covering positioning, comparable titles, querying, submission strategy, and how publishing actually works.

30 or 60 minute call

Pitch Package Review

We review your query letter, your synopsis or proposal overview, and your first ten pages. You’ll receive tracked changes on your query, followed by a call to nail down your pitch.

Query edit · 30-minute call

Manuscript Review

An in-depth review of your query and the first forty pages of your manuscript: we’ll talk about what’s working, what isn’t, and how to fix it.

40 pages · 60-minute call
How It Works
  1. Send an email to Office Hours. You’ll receive the full menu of services and rates by return.
  2. If you’d like to go ahead, reply with a few details about your project and what you hope to get from a session.
  3. Once your application is approved, you’ll receive a link to book a time and pay in advance.
  4. Send your materials ahead of the session. We look forward to meeting you.
Please Note

A session does not imply or lead to representation by Blueprint Literary, and we do not make introductions to agents or editors.

Office Hours and submissions are kept entirely separate. Queries are read on their merits, and Office Hours are never offered in reply to a query.

If Blueprint ever offers representation on a project you have consulted on, every fee paid on that project is refunded in full.

If you have a publishing offer in hand, please query our submissions inbox first, with “Offer in hand” in the subject line.

For the menu of services and rates, write to

officehours@blueprintliterary.com
Office Hours

About

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Jessica Kasmer-Jacobs
Jessica Kasmer-Jacobs

Jessica Kasmer-Jacobs is a literary agent, editor, and critic, and the founder of Blueprint Literary, a boutique agency based in Tel Aviv. She brings a decade of experience at the intersection of literary culture and international publishing. In her years as a literary agent, she has built a global network and negotiated deals with major publishers across the US, UK, and Europe.

Jessica has worked on award-winning and critically acclaimed books by Amir Tibon, Ben Resnick, Anshel Pfeffer, Maya Kessler, Eli Zuzovsky, Benjamin Balint, Ilana Kurshan, and Tehila Hakimi. Her work as an editor and advocate has helped bring exceptional books to readers in more than 20 countries.

Before moving to Israel, Jessica served as Assistant Books Editor at The Wall Street Journal. Her own criticism and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and The Wall Street Journal.

Jessica is the Director of Events at Bookhaus, Tel Aviv’s beloved English-language bookshop, and the co-curator of Parliament TLV, a salon series gathering artists, writers, journalists, and policymakers for underground parliament-style debates and supper clubs.

Contact her at officehours@blueprintliterary.com