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8 agents have named The Secret History as a comparable title on their wishlist, and 6 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.
The sweet spot Luibl articulates most clearly is fiction that lives between genre and literary: books with a strong emotional core and fast, imaginative plottin…
View wishlist →A personal favorite category. She wants stories that carry genuine dread or the uncanny without being purely genre horror — literary novels with witches, the oc…
View wishlist →This is Eva's core territory. They want adult fiction that sits at the intersection of the literary and the commercial — books with a strong, memorable narrativ…
View wishlist →She's drawn to feminist psychological thrillers — stories with complicated, morally messy heroines whose interiority drives the tension. The 'feminist' qualifie…
View wishlist →She wants dark academia that resists the cozy Oxbridge formula: settings outside Europe or the US, a genuinely disenchanted view of institutional life, and a wi…
View wishlist →This is clearly Dougherty's core passion. Their personal reading list is a masterclass in psychologically intense, voice-forward fiction centered on women and q…
View wishlist →She wants the genre's razor edge rather than its glossy surface — specifically fiction that interrogates the exploitative and hierarchical machinery of academic…
View wishlist →She is openly drawn to things that go bump in the night — gothic atmosphere, supernatural horror, and dark speculative fiction with emotional weight. Horror-com…
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