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Literary agents who want books like Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

13 agents have named Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries as a comparable title on their wishlist, and 5 are open to queries. If you’re pitching something in this lane, these are the agents to know. Always confirm an agent’s submission window before you query.

13 agents5 open to queries
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Maria Brannan
Greyhound Literary
Open to queries

Maria wants fantasy that earns its world: epic stories need a richly inhabited setting and personal stakes woven through the larger plot. Cosy fantasy is equall

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Maria Vicente
P.S. Literary Agency
Open to queries

Vicente is actively building this part of their list and considers it a priority. They want genre-inflected literary fiction—fantasy with a grounded or folklori

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Melanie Figueroa
Root Literary
Open to queries

Figueroa represents a deliberately wide band of adult speculative fiction. In fantasy, the priority is accessible worldbuilding — sweeping romances, dark fantas

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Michaela Whatnall
Dystel, Goderich & Bourret
Open to queries

Whatnall is specifically interested in fantasy set in our world or a world that reads as close to our own — not epic or high fantasy. Character must lead; the w

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Sarah Landis
Sterling Lord Literistic
Open to queries

Inventive world-building is non-negotiable — she is not interested in derivative secondary worlds. Strong hooks, a distinctive magic system, and a powerful emot

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Esty Loveing-Downes
Howland Literary
Closed

Esty wants romance with genuine emotional stakes and a strong sense of place or magic. She is drawn to grounded fantasy woven through romance — think mythology,

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Julie Crisp
Julie Crisp Literary Agency
Closed

This is where Crisp's heart and track record sit most clearly. Exceptional world-building is the baseline; what elevates a project is strong female leads, diver

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Julie Gourinchas
Bell Lomax Moreton Agency
Closed

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

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Lexie Krauss
Marsal Lyon Literary Agency
Closed

She gravitates strongly toward speculative concepts rooted in the real world or tethered to it by strong cultural or scientific logic — think evolutionary biolo

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Rena Rossner
The Deborah Harris Agency
Closed

Epic fantasy, historical fantasy, and magical realism/fabulism are priorities. Rossner loves richly imagined alternate worlds and literary sci-fi as much as swe

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Sarah Gerton
The Caldwell Agency
Closed

Fantasy is Gerton's self-described genre home base, and they want it across the full spectrum — from epic second-world settings to urban paranormal to cozy magi

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Sophia M. Ramos
New Leaf Literary & Media
Closed

She wants speculative fiction that announces itself through a distinctive, original narrative voice or formal conceit—academic framing, epistolary structure, un

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Stuti Telidevara
Park, Fine & Brower Literary Management
Status unverified

She wants the full tonal range—from propulsive epic fantasy to lyrical myth-inspired work to book-club-ready historical fantasy. The non-negotiables are a confi

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