We Need Stories - Literary Agency for International Rights & Production

We are a young, Rome-based agency dedicated to unlocking the full potential of creative talent across every medium — from rights management and cultural consultancy to live events and theatre production, to the production and co-production of podcasts and audiovisual content. Our mission is to represent authors across platforms, maximizing their reach without the barriers of traditional industry silos.

Laura Steiger – Founder

LO STREGONE

"THE SORCERER"

Who really is the Sorcerer? There are those who consider Francesco Minervini a visionary who has changed the way we think about food, and those who consider him a guru at the head of a cult; those who extol his ability to reach the very essence of life, those who see in him a manipulator, those who remember his first restaurant going up in flames and those who would do anything to taste his cooking. What is certain is that Bíos – his restaurant – is about to live through the most important night in its history…

Who really is the Sorcerer? There are those who consider Francesco Minervini a visionary who has changed the way we think about food…

VOLEVO UN TÈ AL LIMONE

"I WANTED A LEMON TEA"

At thirty-one, Fabio Macaluso is a successful manager, a leading figure in the adventurous start-up phase of one of Italy’s most promising startups. In the same period, he becomes his own worst enemy. A prisoner of his thoughts, he begins a descent into hell that will lead to hospitalization and to a diagnosis: bipolar disorder. Today, having placed the right distance between himself and those events and emotions, he retraces what is not only the story of his illness, but of an awakening…

At thirty-one, Fabio Macaluso is a successful manager, a leading figure in the adventurous start-up phase of one of Italy’s most promising startups. In the same period…

VENERI DEFORMI

"DEFORMED VENUSES"

In Veneri deformi (Deformed venuses), Yasmina Pani offers a harsh and sincere confession: a book about her body, obsessions and fears. In doing so, she also touches on themes such as work, literature, relationships and anxiety. Unlike most books that deal with similar experiences, Veneri deformi does not offer advice, nor does it aim to deliver a message of growth or hope to the reader. With precise language and carefully measured form, it faithfully conveys the truth as the author lives it.

In Veneri deformi (Deformed venuses), Yasmina Pani offers a harsh and sincere confession: a book about her body…

IL FUOCO INVISIBILE

"THE INVISIBLE FIRE"

Can an ecological and social tragedy be told like a gripping, multi-voiced novel? That is what Daniele Rielli does in this book, in which—trying to understand what is killing his family’s olive trees—he reconstructs the events surrounding the arrival in Puglia of Xylella, a bacterium that has caused the most devastating plant epidemic in the world. It all begins in Gallipoli, when olive trees start to wither and die in a way never seen before. A whirlwind of events is set in motion, gaining speed until it becomes unstoppable. The olive tree is the symbolic tree of Mediterranean civilization and is believed to be immortal; town squares fill with protesters opposing containment measures, and the judiciary puts..

Can an ecological and social tragedy be told like a gripping, multi-voiced novel? That is what Daniele Rielli does in this book, in which—trying to…

ODIO

"HATE"

The journalists who today accuse Marco De Sanctis over an old story have no idea how truly adventurous his life has been since the day—years earlier—he struck up a friendship with an eccentric digital entrepreneur who would later become his mentor. They do not know the details of the ride that carried him from the provinces to the heart of an end-of-empire Rome, amid opulent palaces and seagulls rummaging through trash; a dramatic, funny, and paradoxical journey behind the scenes of power and the media, during which Marco found and lost…

The journalists who today accuse Marco De Sanctis over an old story have no idea how truly adventurous his life has been since the day—years earlier…