A commercial-fiction agent working board books through adult, drawn to standout, weird, and quirky stories with emotional intensity — dark, twisty, atmospheric, and high-stakes, with a strong pull toward horror, thriller, and the gothic.
In brief
Weber represents commercial fiction across the full age range — board books to adult — and wants high-concept hooks paired with beautiful, literary-leaning prose.
The emotional register is the point: angst, yearning, obsession, and catharsis, with intensity in the writing above all else.
Strongest appetite is for thriller/suspense, horror (haunted houses, gothic, supernatural, maritime, 'social scary'), and dark or speculative fiction.
Access is gated — not open to general queries; the way in is a conference, a pitch event, or a professional referral.
Weber heavily prefers working with BIPOC, queer, disabled, and neurodivergent authors across all genres, while stressing that the writing always takes precedence.
Lately
Announced pitch sessions are on sale for an in-person book festival in late October, inviting writers with a ready manuscript to pitch face-to-face — consistent with Weber's gated, events-and-referrals intake.
What Vicky is looking for
A top priority. Weber wants psychological thrillers with deep characterization and tension that runs both external and internal — where the scariest thing may be inside the protagonist's own head. Slow-burn dread and high stakes are the draw.
Another core priority, broadly defined: haunted-house stories, gothic horror with psychological depth, supernatural horror (ghosts, curses, eerie atmospheric settings), maritime horror, and 'social scary' horror that probes collective fears and societal unease. Moody, immersive settings are a recurring ask.
Immersive, moody gothic suspense with atmosphere doing heavy lifting — a named eager target that sits at the overlap of Weber's thriller and horror appetites.
Welcomed: dark or high fantasy, romantasy with tortured, broody heroes, and mystical, magical, or speculative realism. Epic-scale dark fantasy is explicitly to taste.
Unconventional, off-kilter romance 'with teeth' — gothic, speculative, or horror-laced love stories, brooding or tortured heroes, and slow-burns blended with another genre.
Mysteries with an eerie, supernatural edge. Traditional cozies are not the vibe.
Emphasis on the fiction: gothic historical, historical horror, historical suspense and thriller, lesser-known history or unique twists on familiar tales, and a 'social scary' layer that examines societal fears through a historical lens. Not war-centered narratives or anything that reads like nonfiction retelling.
Escapism with depth — high-concept commercial stories carried by emotional intensity and polished, literary-leaning prose.
Anything hooky, weird, high-concept, and grounded in our world.
Author-illustrators only, except for conference attendees or pitch events Weber is participating in. Wants highly giftable, commercial fiction that is funny but not punny, familiar storylines with a fresh twist, and whimsical, slightly offbeat, instantly memorable characters (grumpy cupcakes, competitive grandmas, toddler detectives, dramatic vegetables). Text should leave room for the art. Chapter books should be commercial concepts from an author-illustrator.
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How to query Vicky
Confirm the current intake route before reaching out; the conditional, events-and-referrals path is the safest assumption, and no observation date is attached to the 'open' listing.
Watch Weber's pitch-event schedule — in-person festival pitch sessions are an active, named way in.
Lead with a high-concept hook and intensity in the prose; Weber wants to be dropped into the moment alongside the characters.
Pitch the dark and atmospheric end — psychological thrillers, gothic and supernatural horror, 'social scary' premises — with both external and internal tension.
For picture books and chapter books, you generally need to be an author-illustrator unless you meet Weber at a conference or pitch event.
Weber heavily prefers BIPOC, queer, disabled, and neurodivergent authors across all genres, while emphasizing that the writing comes first.