Literary Agent Scout: quoted wish-list matches with query status and fee checks

$0.40 USDC per call · Business, finance and compliance · POST /api/v1/literary-agent-scout · Id literary-agent-scout

For an author with a book to query, finds literary agents and agencies on the agencies' own websites, reads their guidelines and agent bios, and ranks them against your pitch. Every fit claim carries a sentence quoted verbatim from the agent's page (quotes not found on the page are dropped), each agent shows whether the page says queries are open or closed with the retrieval time, and any agency page that asks for a reading, editing or marketing fee or promises publication is excluded with the offending sentence. You can also pass agency pages you already found. Robots.txt is honoured. It does not read Manuscript Wish List, the AALA directory, X/Twitter or QueryTracker (their terms bar automated access), does not verify agency membership or sales, does not write queries, and does not cover writing contests.

What you get

Querying a closed agent, a mismatched agent or a fee-charging fake wastes months of a query cycle; this returns the open, on-target agents with the exact sentence that justifies each, and drops the ones that ask for money.

Call it

Send the JSON body below to https://agents.writerslogic.com/api/v1/literary-agent-scout. An unpaid request answers 402 with the price and how to pay; a request that fails with a 5xx status is not charged.

curl -i -X POST https://agents.writerslogic.com/api/v1/literary-agent-scout \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"manuscript":{"category":"adult_fiction","genre":"domestic suspense","pitch":"A hospice nurse in a small Oregon town realizes the three patients who died on her night shifts all changed their wills in the same week, and the only person who benefits is her estranged sister.","comps":["The Silent Patient","Big Little Lies"],"word_count":92000},"pages":["https://www.kimberleycameron.com/submissions"],"max_results":5}'

Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
`manuscript`	object	yes
`pages`	array<string; length 0..500>; max 8 items	no	Agency submission, wish-list or agent-bio pages you already found. They are read and checked like the ones found by search.
`discover`	boolean	no	Search the web for more agencies (default true). Set false to check only the pages you supplied.
`max_results`	integer; 1..8	no	Default 5.

Example request body

{
  "manuscript": {
    "category": "adult_fiction",
    "genre": "domestic suspense",
    "pitch": "A hospice nurse in a small Oregon town realizes the three patients who died on her night shifts all changed their wills in the same week, and the only person who benefits is her estranged sister.",
    "comps": [
      "The Silent Patient",
      "Big Little Lies"
    ],
    "word_count": 92000
  },
  "pages": [
    "https://www.kimberleycameron.com/submissions"
  ],
  "max_results": 5
}

Result

The response is { "data": ..., "_provenance": ... }. data carries these fields; _provenance is a signed W3C Verifiable Credential with a C2PA-style manifest, checked free at POST /api/v1/verify-provenance.

Field	Type	Required	Description
`as_of`	string	no
`category`	string	no
`candidates_read`	integer	no
`matches`	array	no	Ranked agencies with verified quotes, query status with evidence, fee check and the pages read.
`not_shown`	array	no
`excluded`	array	no	Pages not read or not ranked, each with the reason and, for fee flags, the sentence.
`score_formula`	string	no
`llm`	object	no
`limits`	object	no	What was not checked.

Pay and connect

Available through: x402 (USDC on Base), MCP, RapidAPI, Apify.

Machine-readable

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