Folio Jr. is dedicated to aggressively pursuing sales in all international markets and effectively building authors’ global careers. Our international list includes bestsellers and award-winners in over forty languages and territories. We work closely with a roster of dedicated co-agents, ensuring our authors’ work reaches readers across the globe. Our foreign rights director Melissa Sarver White attends the Frankfurt, Bologna, and London Book Fairs each year, maintaining a global network of publishers, agents, and content creators.

Folio Jr. makes the most out of clients’ audio rights. We negotiate the best audio book contracts with the industry’s top audio publishers, secure meaningful advances and reading fees, and coordinate successful launches.

FolioUnbound is an initiative designed to let Folio authors take control of their e-book titles. Providing our authors with choice, guidance, and control, we help clients publish original and backlist material in the digital space. From book covers to metadata, our experience and expertise will ensure that eBooks are of the highest quality and available from major retailers.

Michael Harriot is Folio Jr.’s dedicated contracts director. With multi-million dollar deals across Folio Jr. and Folio Literary Management, we provide the most favorable terms for our authors and artists. Our superlative boilerplates provide the very best protections and benefits, from advance structures to below-the-line details. Our contracts department ensures that every agreement receives individual attention and the most stringent negotiation.

Jess Siegler handles dramatic (i.e., film, TV, theater) rights. He does not accept unsolicited queries and works only with our agency’s clients.

Jess is a veteran story development executive, literary scout and writer with over twenty five years of experience helping identify, acquire and develop literary properties for film, television and other media. 

He began his career in New York, working for New Line Cinema and Alan Pakula Productions, before relocating to Los Angeles, where he lived for 10 years, working as an executive for Warner Brothers, Sony and Disney. While books have always been his primary focus, he has also pursued and developed ideas from original screenplays, pitches, comic books, theater, journalism, sports, and other sources. Jess specializes in identifying great written material, working closely with writers to shape and hone that material, and seeking out the right creative partners to help bring it to the screen.

After returning home to New York, Jess worked for Fox Animation Studios (ICE AGE, RIO, HORTON HEARS A WHO) and was an in-house film/TV executive at Scholastic Media for several years, helping develop such iconic kid’s properties as GOOSEBUMPS, THE MAGIC SCHOOL BUS and CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG, among others.

In addition to his experience as a development executive, Jess has also worked as a book scout, and has written two original TV pilots for PBS children’s television.