Happy Wednesday, writers!
Here are 11 agents who opened to queries in the past week (August 12 - 18), along with information about what they’re looking for, some of their published titles, and their query link.
If you missed last week: 11 other agents opened to queries. Check out the list here!
Note that some of these agents may already be closed to queries.
Best of luck, and happy querying!
This newsletter is purely informational and is not an endorsement of any particular agent or agency.
Suzie represents all brands of children’s and adult fiction. She loves women’s fiction, narrative non-fiction, memoir, and debut fiction. On the children’s side, she is interested in select YA and MG. Suzie loves strong characters and voice-driven stories that break out of the typical tropes of their genres, and she’s always looking for unique new voices in stories.
Published titles: Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard, Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross, Losing It by Cora Carmack
In children’s books, Emily is most interested in high-concept plots that meet high-concept thought, darker speculative work, adventure stories, and stories with a play pattern.
In the adult space, Emily is looking for book club and upmarket fiction, romantic and steamy fantasy romances, fun rom-coms, and layered adult fantasies. She also wants books set in college, with characters in their early to late 20s, at the messy stage of adulthood where not everything fits and there are too many forks in the road.
Learn more about Emily and her interests on her website.
Published titles: Phantasma by Kalie Smith, So Let Them Burn by Kamilah Cole, The God and the Gumiho by Sophie Kim
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—Bailey Evers, contemporary romance author
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Allegra is all about magic, all the time. From bestseller lists, to book box placements, to national coverage—their client list represents a dynamic range of thoughtful, funny, ambitious, propulsive reads. Between the many hats they wear, they bring a well-rounded perspective to author-agent relationships and work expertly with various parties across the publishing industry.
Allegra is looking for marginalized writers with beautifully crafted speculative fiction in the Young Adult, Crossover, and Adult space. Fantasy, science fiction, fabulism, horror, romance, book club, thrillers, mystery—it doesn’t matter the home genre so long as there is an added speculative or magical element. They are open to both novels and novellas, but are extraordinarily picky in the novella category. They get extra excited about characters with specialized jobs love subplots, settings that feel alive, historical fantasy, light fantasy, found family, feral people doing feral things, and anything to do with gods, myths, or immortal beings who make bad decisions.
Allegra is only open to marginalized writers. You can find more about what they’re looking for on their website.
Published titles: And the Sky Bled by S. Hati, Sorcery and Small Magics by Maiga Doocy
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Kimberly is a fierce advocate for her clients and is well-known in the industry for negotiating and closing seven and eight-figure deals domestically and internationally.
Those clients delivered over 40 New York Times bestselling books, multiple #1 New York Times bestsellers, and dozens of international bestsellers (including #1 international bestsellers) and netted several eight-figure deals.
Prior to her renowned career as a literary agent, Kimberly Whalen worked as the foreign rights director at St. Martin’s Press. The experience of working at a publishing company, as well as her background in selling international rights for over 20 years, provides her clients with a truly unique and global expertise that is unparalleled in the industry.
Published titles: Tourist Season and The Seasons of Carnage trilogy by Brynne Weaver, Spark of the Everflame and The Kindred’s Curse Saga by Penn Cole, Gild and The Plated Prisoner series by Raven Kennedy
Abby founded The Lark Group in 2016 after a decade in publishing at John Wiley & Sons, Sourcebooks, and Browne & Miller Literary Associates. A zealous reader who loves her iPad and the ebooks on it, she still can’t resist the lure of a print book. Abby’s personal library of beloved titles runs the gamut from literary newbies and classics, to cozy mysteries, to sappy women’s fiction, to dark and twisted thrillers. She’s looking for great and engrossing adult commercial and literary fiction.
Published titles: The Librarian of Burned Books by Brianna Labuskes, Nowhere for Very Long by Brianna Madia, One Summer in Savannah by Terah Shelton Harris
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