Lester Hekking
Sebes & Bisseling
Likely Open
Updated: 9/16/2025
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Lester Hekking is vice president of Sebes Bisseling Kleuver Literary Agency, specializing in children’s books and YA.
He oversees the agency’s contract department and supports the finance department.
As an agent he works across children’s books in the broadest sense, from picture books for the youngest readers to YA fantasy novels, and occasionally on a cookbook.
He focuses on finding the right publisher for a book and negotiating the right conditions for the author, describing agenting as an exciting and challenging profession he enjoys every day.
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