Literary agents who want books like Babel

This is her primary lane. She welcomes the full spectrum — high fantasy, low fantasy, cozy fantasy, dark fantasy, and romantasy — with or without heavy worldbui…

She leans whimsical rather than cozy, and explicitly not Tolkien-esque. Characters and relationships must feel grounded and profoundly human. Thematic sweet spo…

Crockett actively pursues adult fantasy across several registers: epic, historical, folklore- and fairytale-inspired, horror, gothic, and dark academia. The uni…

Maria is drawn to historical fiction with a speculative or fantastical layer — stories that use the past as a canvas for ideas rather than pure period recreatio…

This is the heart of her list. She wants fantasy with strong worldbuilding and compelling characters — epic, dark academic, cozy, low fantasy, and romantasy all…

This is her clearest priority. She wants immersive, ambitiously built worlds drawing on non-Western cultures and mythologies — not the default European-medieval…

Horror is a major passion, and she has a particular hunger for Indigenous and Native voices in this space right now. She wants feminist-leaning horror, horror-r…

She wants standalone science-fiction novels — not sprawling series openers. Stories set in space, narratives built around genuine ethical dilemmas, and work wit…

Epic, sword-and-sorcery, historical, and literary-crossover fantasy all interest her. She's drawn to lush, densely imagined worlds with prose that earns the com…

McGowan wants fantasy that grabs him from page one and never lets go. His ideal submission features original magical systems, world-building that doesn't overwh…

YA is where his deal record is deepest and most recent. He wants contemporary YA that celebrates Black joy and centers the Black American experience without rel…

Fantasy where the world feels coherent, recognisable, and internally logical — either set directly in our world or built close enough to it that the familiar bl…

She wants historical fiction that asks readers to revisit, challenge, or fundamentally reframe a real historical figure — not simply dramatise well-trodden grou…

Hernick gravitates toward fiction that bridges intellect and emotional intimacy — narratives that follow a character so deeply the reader loses themselves in th…

For fantasy, Rhian is drawn to clever, idea-driven stories: heist narratives with adult stakes (not YA-adjacent), and cerebral world-building that uses its fant…

This is her most loudly stated priority. She wants narratives exploring immigrant experience, colonial legacy, and diaspora identity—written in any genre. The e…