A STEM-to-publishing career changer with a trade marketing, publicity, and sales background, repping kidlit author-illustrators and crossover YA with a taste for the spooky, the funny, and the scientifically curious — and Storm's foreign-rights agent.
In brief
Newly an Associate Literary Agent at Storm — and the team's Foreign Rights Agent — actively building her list and open to queries.
Picture books are author-illustrator ONLY: she wants creators who work across formats (PB, chapter books, graphic novels), is happy with potty humor and silliness, and leans into STEM/STEAM, social-emotional learning, and underrepresented lived experience. Be prepared to send 3–5 dummies.
Across MG and YA she runs dark-but-hopeful: age-appropriate horror, mystery and whodunnits, psychological suspense, morally gray romance, anti-heroes, and 'women-winning' endings.
In adult she takes accessible nonfiction from genuine experts — STEAM, medicine, feminism, ecology, holistic wellness, spooky paranormal, UFO/UAP and fun conspiracy rabbit holes, plus homesteading and alternative-lifestyle craft books — and memoir only from authors with very established platforms.
A former trade marketing, publicity, and sales pro who wants clients who already get the business — or are genuinely eager to learn it.
Lately
Joined Storm as an Associate Literary Agent and the team's Foreign Rights Agent; open to queries and actively building her list. Her agenting career began through Writers House (WHIP).
What Jackie is looking for
Her core. She represents author-illustrators (not text-only authors) who want to work across fiction and nonfiction picture books, chapter books, and graphic novels. She's especially drawn to STEM/STEAM, social-emotional learning, irresistible humor (silliness and potty humor included), out-of-the-box mystery/whodunnit, epic adventure, mindfulness and wellness concepts, and stories centering diverse or underrepresented lived experiences — neurodiversity, disability, multicultural identity, and unconventional family structures. She prefers human over animal characters, with an exception for a genuinely funny book. Be prepared to potentially send 3–5 dummies, and to share synopses or outlines of your other projects if you write across age categories.
Part of the same author-illustrator focus — she wants creators spanning age audiences, including chapter books and graphic novels. Note the catch: she is not a fit for chapter-book-only authors. Illustrators with distinctive styles seeking picture-book and graphic-novel work are welcome.
Only from authors who also cross into other age categories such as YA. Within that, she wants age-appropriate horror and mysteries and epic adventure: groups of friends acting as sleuths, loners and odd kids finding their power, and plots that touch on empowerment and open the door to real-life conversations (think Publishers Weekly's Tough Topics list). She is not a fit for MG-only authors.
A strong lane. She wants mystery and whodunnits outside procedural settings, psychological thriller and suspense, horror with heart and women-winning endings, dystopian futures, queer stories, anti-heroes, morally gray romance balanced by plot, complicated soulmates, and character-driven commercial fiction with emotional depth and strong hooks.
Accessible nonfiction from experts in their field: STEAM (especially applied biology, physics, and astronomy) and medicine for laypeople; feminism and women's care; spooky paranormal, UFO/UAP accounts and fun conspiracy theories; astrology, metaphysical, spirituality and mind-body-spirit, and holistic or alternative wellness; and ecological and environmental concepts. Lifestyle and craft books too — homesteading, tiny houses, non-toxic living, bushcraft and doomsday guides, and alternative lifestyles.
Open to memoir or hybrid memoir — e.g. a cookbook memoir or photojournalism memoir — but, due to publishing standards, only from authors with very established platforms.
As Storm's Foreign Rights Agent she's interested in growth-stage clients: self-published authors seeing success who want audio or translation opportunities, and traditionally published but unrepresented authors seeking audio, translation, or other world-rights opportunities. (For foreign-rights inquiries, Storm directs you to foreignrights[at]stormliteraryagency[dot]com.)
Not the right fit
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How to query Jackie
Submit only through her online form — unsolicited email queries are deleted unread.
Author-illustrators: be prepared to potentially send 3–5 picture-book dummies.
If you write across age categories, be ready to share synopses or outlines of your other projects beyond the query-ready one.
Show that you get the industry — or are actively learning it. She values resilience, working gracefully with feedback, patience with publishing's slow timeline, and ongoing platform-building.
For foreign-rights inquiries specifically, Storm routes you to its foreign-rights email rather than a query.