CLOSED TO QUERIES* literary agent @HowlandLit • faculty @ringlingcollege • AALA • MFA • sweet ungovernable • ✡️📚💗🍉 •
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quick links, friends
MSWL : manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-…
Query : QueryTracker.net/query/query…
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some men improve the world only by leaving it — Oscar Wilde
Feb 8
News flash!
THERE ARE NO APES IN THE LION KING.
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9 Dec 2025
🔔 Congratulations to my amazing client @JaniliseLloyd on her 2-book deal with Feiwel Friends 🎉 So over the moon for this wonderful author! 🔔
Congratulations, Janilise ♥️
Can’t wait for the world to read these books!🪄💕📖
9 Dec 2025
I’ve been keeping a secret, and I’m so excited to finally share!!🎉 I’ve signed a two-book deal with @FeiwelFriends for a YA fantasy series to be released in early 2027!🥳
#BookDeal #yafantasy #fantasyauthor #authorlife #amwriting #amwritingfiction
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20 Nov 2025
📣 Deal Announcement Time! 📣 Ecstatic for my brilliant client @GabrielleSaraP whose next fantastic YA romance arrives from @penguinrandom soon! Happy to finally let this cat out of the bag 😉
Feeling so lucky to have read this gem. Can’t wait for you to read, too!
Congrats, G!
20 Nov 2025
Finally can spill the beans on this! I can’t wait for you all to meet Molly and Tom ❤️❤️❤️🐈⬛🤦🏻♀️✨ Thank you @estywrites and @penguinteen
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Cannot emphasize enough: what I’m looking for in queries are *stakes*.
Why is this happening?
What if it goes off the rails?
Why care?
What’s at risk?
Everyone’s queries have themes. Themes alone don’t sell agents, editors, publishers, or the reading public. 1/2
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Include what’s at stake for your characters—the driving force which compels them forward and makes the plot compelling.
Theme is important, but stakes tell me how essential it is that I keep reading. 2/2
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I love every album she’s given us. But for me, Florence’s Everybody Scream is a perfect album. Perfect.
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29 Oct 2025
The hottest new club is my query inbox on *November 1st* when I reopen to subs.
It’ll have everything—romantasy, literary fiction, upmarket and YA, even romance.
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27 Oct 2025
“Imagine a cookie like this one my grandma made with nuts and chocolate chips and caramel, plus an elephant’s ear from the fair and that’s the cookie I came up with,”
versus
“Imagine a Chips Ahoy! crossed with a Nutter Butter.”
Comps help everyone understand what you created.
25 Oct 2025
Writers, please hear me; Comping mega sellers is hurting your queries. Agents are unlikely to take you seriously if you list Fourth Wing and ACOTAR as comps. It can come across as either arrogant, ignorant, or lazy - and those are not vibes you want in a query!
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20 Oct 2025
Breaking down the query letter that got me 27 full requests, 4 offers of representation, and 2 dream agents!
#amquerying writers - would you want to see an in-depth post on this, with tips and tricks?
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Quick question who said y’all could send me this many extraordinary queries?
CLOSING TO QUERIES TOMORROW
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I wish I could represent every writer who poured their heart into a query. But I can’t. What I can do: cheer you on, remind you that “no” isn’t the end, and hope you keep going until you find your “yes.”
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2 Sep 2025
open for business! ➡️ QueryTracker.net/query/3913
1 Sep 2025
clients signing things over here
publishing is happening ((!!)
aaaaand planning to open to queries TOMORROW
looking for:
ADULT ROMANCE
ROMANTASY
ADULT FANTASY
UPMARKET
LIT FIC
howlandliterary.com/esty-lov…
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clients signing things over here
publishing is happening ((!!)
aaaaand planning to open to queries TOMORROW
looking for:
ADULT ROMANCE
ROMANTASY
ADULT FANTASY
UPMARKET
LIT FIC
howlandliterary.com/esty-lov…
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29 Aug 2025
found: rebellion on a freshly re-painted wall on campus where I teach
hell yeah
keep going, artists
the pen is mightier than the sword
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18 Jul 2025
Ecstatic to announce my client @RyanRaeHarbuck PB debut. Extraordinarily grateful to call her friend. Proud👏🏼of👏🏼you!👏🏼
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Would you believe it if I told you I feel like I've waited my whole life for this??
This is everything to me and I am so, so proud. Endless gratitude to @estywrites and the whole Barefoot team.
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