I am obsessed with whipsmart and ballsy characters, and, of course, the darker the better.Īdult Domestic Suspense: THE GIRL BEFORE (Rena Olsen). A great television comp for that is Wynonna Earp or Penny Dreadful. I love love love fantasy and science fiction grounded in real world settings. No standard coming out stories I want queer kids living their life discovering themselves and exploring their indentity in broader ways than the traditional Coming Out narrative.Īdult SFF: Think Nicky Drayden. Not looking for Girl Saves The World stories I’m much more drawn to more personal/selfish stakes rather than big, save the world arcs… Or contemporary fiction that deals with racism in small towns. Not into historical fiction that deals with racism in small towns. While I love musicals and fandom, I am not the agent for stories based in those communities or settings. I grew up with the genre and would love a character driven horror with deep, personal stakes right now. Horror! I would kill for an atmospheric horror story.

Nothing cookie-cutter for me! A ROOM AWAY FROM WOLVES and SADIE are good examples of heroines I love. All the gray morality and friendships they would kill to keep. Give me the girls with skinned knees and boys weak with jealousy and queer kids who couldn’t be good if they tried. I want my heart broken with all things dark and twisty. I’m looking for an achingly bittersweet queer love story with thriller or genre spin like FAR FROM YOU and THEY BOTH DIE AT THE END. They all have their strengths, weaknesses, and quirks and each are wholly unique in their own ways. Some of my favorite badass teams right now are in The Flash, Wynona Earp, The Craft (obviously), The Diviners by Libba Bray, Feral Youth edited by Shaun David Hutchinson. I am looking for queer gang ensemble casts in any YA genre/sub-genre that kick ass physically, mentally, at the arcade or in a high-stakes heist. Fantasy: THE WICKED DEEP, FOREST OF A THOUSAND LANTERNS, and CINDERELLA IS DEAD. Think THUG, ONE OF US IS LYING, EMERGENCY CONTACT. I am HUNGRY for queer and POC voices, especially if the narrative is as much driven by the main character(s) as by a high-concept plot. For the foreseeable future, I am open to select low/high Fantasy (not-western/European based) and Sci-fi – more so stories that are grounded in a real world setting ie: Black Mirror.

I am particularly interested in YA Contemporary that has main characters that aren’t your typical good students with black and white morals. I represent both YA across genres and Adult Fantasy, romance, and domestic suspense. Newly minted Assistant Literary Agent at Donald Maass Literary Agency.

Pointe by brandy colbert