Julie Crisp

Julie Crisp Literary Agency

Submission status
Closed
Submission route
QueryTracker
Response time
Aims to reply within 1 week
Last checked
2 days ago

About

Julie is a literary agent at Julie Crisp Literary Agency, representing science fiction, fantasy, horror and mythical retellings.

She is a long-term fan of these genres and looks for character-driven, own voices stories with a speculative edge.

Genres

CrimeFantasyHistorical FictionHorrorScience FictionThriller

Looking for

  • full-length, adult, science fiction, epic fantasy, magical realism, horror, mythical retellings
  • historical novels, fairytale retellings, anything contemporary with a speculative edge to it
  • own voices stories
  • character-driven science fiction
  • great world building fantasy, especially with strong female leads and new and original voices with diverse characters and different settings
  • anything that's trope twisting and genre defying
  • cozy fantasy
  • gothic historical, dark and haunted houses, angry ghosts, and twisty, turny stories with an ambiguous speculative edge
  • horror based around stories from a non-western background
  • mythological retellings that move away from the Greek/Roman myths
  • non-western mythological retellings
  • fairytale retelling
  • diversity
  • multicultural
  • Speculative Fiction

Not looking for

  • military science fiction
  • cyberpunk
  • steampunk
  • urban fantasy
  • slasher fiction horror
  • gratuitous violence
  • young adult (not actively seeking at this time)