Nicole Geiger

Nicole Geiger has worked in just about every capacity in the publishing industry in her thirty-plus years plus career. As VP and Publisher of Ten Speed Press/Tricycle Press then VP and Publisher of Random House/Tricycle Press, Nicole was the primary acquirer and directed the production and marketing of up to 30 children’s titles yearly. In 2011, she founded Nicole Geiger Publishing, a consultancy for publishers, where she helped launch AMP! Comics for Kids and Beyond Words’ children’s publishing in partnership with Simon & Schuster, and currently manages the publishing program of Yosemite Conservancy.

As a literary agent with Full Circle Literary, Nicole focuses on a limited group of clients who create fiction and nonfiction for board books through middle grade. Curious, commercially minded, and very editorial, Nicole is looking for strong and diverse voices that tell stories for all children. Her clients include Mercedes Acosta, Carmen Bogan, Ashleigh Corrin, Sara Fajardo, Michael Genhart, Bridget George, Alexandria Giardino, Laurel Goodluck, Eileen Kennedy-Moore, Charlotte Offsay, and Jonathan Nelson.

When she is not helping her clients create their best work, Nicole can be found taking walks her family’s silly chocolate Lab, puttering in the yard, and reading to her kiddos. The books on her own bedside table are usually middle grade graphic novels and adult nonfiction, especially popular science, though she’ll read about pretty much any topic as long as the writing is amazing.

NICOLE’S WISH LIST –  currently closed to submissions.When she reopens, she will especially be looking for the following: 

• Graphic novels: Middle grade and/or younger only please; scripts should be as compelling as the sequential artwork.
• Illustrators: I welcome your polished, distinctive portfolios which showcase your range and visual storytelling skills. Please share your polished, distinctive portfolios showcasing your range and visual storytelling skills.

While any subject matter, if well done, she is particularly interested in:

• Engaging and idiosyncratic nonfiction: New topics or new ways to present familiar ones.
• Books about the power of the natural world: Extra points for reeling in and inspiring underserved audiences.
• Slices of life: Well-drawn characters who feel real, make her laugh, or run to Google to find out more.
• Magic embedded in the real world: Stories that comingle this world and what it could be.